Empire Skate organizes over 200 skating events and activities throughout the year including technique workshops for all skaters and racers, group skates in and around the City, fund-raising events for charities, and social exercise occasions. Empire Speed, a division of the club, has over 100 members who race, including several elite racers with national reputations.

Most Empire Skate Club events are staged in Central Park - some six weekly events in the April to October period. Other events are scheduled for Prospect Park, a calmer environment.

Even in the winter the Empire skaters keep stroking and rolling: the Tuesday Night Skate, New York's longest running group skate, heads out so long as the streets are dry; there are indoor sessions on a hard wood floor three times a week, and members join together for skate cruises to the Caribbean, for snow-skating and skiing outings to Hunter Mountain, and for ice skating and skiing trips to Lake Placid, to name a few of the winter activities.

The club plans a mini-workshop on Roosevelt Island, given by one of our expert instructors, in conjunction with a day-skate roll across the Island into Queens.

The club operates a website, www.empireskate.org. Cherry can be contacted via email at fcherry@msn.com for additional information on the club and its activities.