Happy Spring time, thanks for your support! Bike Tour Sunday! COURT Date Monday, we need you! South Bronx Environmental Justice Waterfront Bike Tour & Tree Giveaway When: Sunday, April 19th | 11-1:30: Bike Tour | 1:30-3:30: Tree Giveaway Where: Meet at Brook Park, East 141st Street and Brook Avenue Participants of all ages will visit sites along the community-designed Mott Haven-Port Morris Waterfront Plan, including the proposed Lincoln Avenue waterfront park, the 132nd Street pier and the historic Port Morris gantries. Participants will also learn about local organizing campaigns against subsidies to the trucking company FreshDirect as well as pollution and unjust land use from polluting fossil fuel power plants and waste transfer facilities that line the Bronx Kill waterway. Hurricane Sandy hit this flood zone during low tide, causing 4.5 foot flooding in the area, with forceful waves that ripped a pier from its concrete foundation. The tour, organized together with Times Up!, will highlight the community's longstanding vision for the public waterfront land, who is working with the community and who is working against the community. At 1:30, we will return to Brook Park to join Friends of Brook Park, Per Scholas and New York Restoration Project in providing 100 free trees as part of the MillionTreesNYC initiative. ++++South Bronx vs FreshDirect Back in Court! Where: Bronx Supreme Court - East 161st Street and Grand Concourse When: Monday, April 20 8:30 am - Fliering/outreach ( 161st St. side of building) 9:00 am – Enter court (Room 405A, Judge Mary Brigantti-Hughes) Can public land be used by a private developer with no public benefit? Join South Bronx Unite in the courtroom as New York Lawyers for the Public Interest argue (with newly discovered (aka previously withheld) information) on a motion to renew to allow standing to sue on this important issue.