FootDown Festival & Bike Month NYC

FootDown Festival at Union Square tonight!

Hi CCH Guests and all New Yorkers! Do you like to ride your bike? Then, we have a cool invitation for you for this evening! Go out, hop on your 2-wheelers and have some fun with fellow riders at Union Square. Join other adventure seekers for the 2010 Bike Month Footdown Festival at 7pm.

Footdown is a fun and friendly bicycle game. The object of the game is very simple – DON’T put your FOOT DOWN! Players ride around inside of a circle, trying to force other riders to put a foot on the ground. You get eliminated once your foot has touched the ground. How awesome is that? Let us tell you something – it may sound silly but it really actually is a great thing to do and we had tons of good time the last time we took part in the festival! So go ahead, we strongly encourage you to go down to 14^th Street today – come on, the weather is gorgeous and you’ll surely enjoy it! Meet up at Union Square and then everybody will take a little ride to a more private venue to play the game. Can’t wait!

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
7:00 PM
Union Square (south end by steps)
http://times-up.org

Oh, by the way, did you know that May is a Bike Month in the Big Apple? Oh, it definitely is and here at Columbus Circle Hostel we are avid supporters of this wonderful, environment-friendly initiative! That’s right, we have a couple of devout cyclists here. Bike Month NYC is the annual celebration of bicycling in metropolitan New York City. Each year the Department of Transportation and Transportation Alternatives team up to bring you Bike Month NYC, a city wide campaign to promote the joys of cycling in New York City. They work with many individuals and organizations to bring you over 200 rides, workshops, races and events.

Bike Month has grown since 1990 from a one-day celebration of biking to work, to a week long celebration of bicycling in NYC, to a month full of activities that showcase bicycling in NYC and the tri-state region. Cycling in NYC has grown by leaps and bounds during that time. On an average day, 236,000 New Yorkers bicycle—more than double the number who biked only five years ago (EXCELLENT!). What’s even better is that this number continues to grow fueled by government and advocates’ efforts to improve and promote biking. Keep up the good job guys and we’ll keep on riding! But for now, hop on that bicycle and meet us this evening at 7pm at Union Square for that FootDown Festival! See ya there!

To learn more about cycling events this month and other bike-friendly info visit: http://bikemonthnyc.org