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I have committed my efforts towards health and fitness. Currently, I am teaching teenage boys yoga at MS 354 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

Twenty-five women glide across the wooden floor in Harlem’s Pelham Fritz Recreation Center on a recent Wednesday morning—just as they do every Wednesday, and on Mondays and Saturdays as well.

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Shape Up NYC classes are taught by expert fitness instructors who know how to make fitness fun.

The kickoff events for the free fitness challenge were held throughout the five boroughs over the past week. Participants set goals and got measured for height, weight, strength, and flexibility. In April, they will get measured once more, and the top three “most improved” will win prizes.

Don’t let your wallet stop you from making some real changes to kick off 2011. NY1 Health & Fitness reporter Kafi Drexel has more on a way you can find free classes all over the city and all you have to do is step up to the challenge.

A TimeBank is a network that individuals can join to use their time doing a service for someone else in exchange for another TimeBank member doing something for them. People register and indicate both the kinds of services they would like to get and the kinds of services they can offer. Spend an hour; earn an hour. Get a service; give a service. It’s pretty simple.

Mayor Bloomberg thanks the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers that volunteered in 2010 as part of NYC service in weekly radio address.

Mayor paints the one millionth square foot of New York roof space white to mark effort to slash energy bills.

Mayor Bloomberg found himself involved in a whitewash Wednesday. But he was covering a rooftop and not a scandal. Hizzoner wielded a paintbrush to slap a reflective white coating to the 1 millionth square foot of rooftop as a part of the NYC CoolRoofs program.