Streetfilms | Hike the Heights!

Hike the Heights!

by on June 23, 2008 | 1,996 Plays

Hike the Heights is a yearly guided urban hiking safari for kids thru Morningside Heights, following along paths defined by the presence of statues of giraffes. The object is to encourage fitness as well as promoting fun and education. The event, sponsored by CLIMB (City Life is Moving Bodies), connects numerous parks in the Harlem area.

Show Transcript

[intro music] Natasha Riley-Moynihan: [00:08] Right now we’re on 135th at St. Nicholas Park where we’re beginning the giraffe path in conjunction with Hike the Heights, which is a hike that goes through all the parks all the way up into Inward. [music] Nancy Bruning: [00:23] CLIMB stands for City Life is Moving Bodies and we have two hikes, one from the south and one from the north, and we all converge at High Bridge. Lourdes Hernandez-Cordero: [00:33] So one of the goals of the CLIMB project is to invigorate that space between parks and the street. We’re trying to foster that street ballet that Dean Jacobs talked about that, you know, that makes neighbourhoods and cities just incredible places to live. [music] Speaker: [00:57] So this is a trail right here, this is a [unintelligible 01:00]? Joanne Deidersdorf: [01:01] A trail that is… goes through multi jurisdictions. So it goes in and out of city parks, and now we’re on city streets. But the idea would be that the trail would be eventually marked as one trail, and there would be signs directing people how to get from one city park to the next. Speaker: [01:22] The idea of having a trail, it’s an awesome idea cos it’s going to give them options and it’s even going to help the environment to clean the air and everything with all the trees. So yeah, it’s a cool idea. [music] Matthew Montesano: [01:36] You know, how about this totally revolutionary idea, you can go outside to hike, to walk uptown to enjoy the parks, you know, to connect one park to another, you know, enjoy the outdoors, enjoy the trees, have a useable, liveable space, a complete space that encompasses all these different uses. [music] Lourdes Hernandez-Cordero: [02:02] This is an event that aims to introduce people to trails and areas of Northern Manhattan Parks that need a lot of loving and need people to feel like they own them. So we want to create… we want to foster stewardship, we want to get people to fall in love with these spaces. So every year we throw a party and we invite our friends to hike together. [music] Transcription Sponsored by: <a href="http://transcriptdivas.com/">Transcript Divas Transcription Services </a>

Tammy

It looks like another amazing Hike the Heights!!! I was so sad that I couldn't make it! Next year I will be there for sure! I hope everyone is well. Thank you for sharing the film so those of us who were unable to make it could still be part of the fun!
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