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For beginners, bike ride at your own pace

>>> For beginners, bike ride at your own pace
AM New York, May 4, 2007
"Registration is sold out for this Sunday's Commerce Bank Five Boro Bike Tour, but among the 32,000 who signed up for the 40-mile ride there are plenty of beginner cyclists."

Featured Community ToolBox: Amanda Hickman's Recycle-A-Bicycle ToolBox

>>> Featured Community ToolBox: Amanda Hickman's Recycle-A-Bicycle ToolBox
Social Source Commons Blog, March 3, 2007
Amanda Hickman, former Director of Communications here at Recycle-A-Bicycle, was interviewed about the set of tech tools that she brought into RAB's infrastructure.

Interviews on Cityscape Public Affairs

>>> AUDIO: Interviews on Cityscape Public Affairs
WFUV, October 22, 2006
WFUV's Cityscape Public Affairs show interviewed Recycle-A-Bicycle's Jared Bunde and a few of our interns from City As School for their October 22, 2006 show.

Tulips and Two-by-Fours

>>> Tulips and Two-by-Fours
New York Times, August 8, 2006
"PASQUALINA AZZARELLO, an artist from the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, likes to distribute her work through unorthodox channels; she once painted 500 rocks she had gathered from the waterfront, then took nighttime walks around the neighborhood to leave them where people would discover them in the morning."

Bike Builders In L.I.C. Welcome Teen Interns

>>> Bike Builders In L.I.C. Welcome Teen Interns
Queens Chronicle, June 29, 2006
"For Sandra Evangelina Garcia, bicycles are more than just a way to get around - they are a way of life. However, even though he 17 year old from the Bronx was offered a part time job at Recycle-A-Bicycle after an eight month internship with the organization, she no longer has a bike."

Best Bike Shop

>>> Best Bike Shop
Time Out New York Kids, May 1, 2006
"In 1994, the bicycle-advocacy organization Transportation Alternatives helped launch this nonprofit that trains youths in bike maintenance and hires the kids to refurbish old cycles, which are later sold. (The group also offers repair services.)"

Commuter Profile: Sandra Evangelina Garcia

>>> Commuter Profile: Sandra Evangelina Garcia
Transportation Alternatives Magazine, April 1, 2006
"Sandra takes a Swift folder for a test ride on a break from her afterschool job at Recycle-A-Bicycle in DUMBO, Brooklyn."

Supporting the Arts ... With Thermoplastics?

>>> Supporting the Arts ... With Thermoplastics?
Queens Chronicle, March 30, 2006
"More recently, Plaxall has lent its support to Recycle-a-Bicycle, an organization that gets area youths involved in cycling—and recycling—by having them work on donated bicycles. In exchange for repairing the bikes, the kids get to take one home. Recycle-a-Bicycle will soon open a location on 46th Avenue in space leased by Plaxall"