The Best Bike Rides in and around NYC.
Brooklyn is the old country in so many ways. Not only does it seem to have been the first stop for millions of immigrants, and millions of immigrants still seem to land there first, but much of the borough’s past can still be seen. That’s part of the fun of bike routes in Brooklyn; so …
Did you know you can ride your bicycle on the Bronx River Parkway? It’s been a tradition for 46 years. On most Sundays between the first Sunday in May to the last Sunday in September, a stretch of highway is closed from Tuckahoe to White Plains from 10am to 2pm. you can ride both north …
I’ve been plying the roads in Northern New Jersey for years. I think it was a friend who started calling rides that totally avoided 9W and the regular haunts of NYC cyclists “wormholes.” I immediately liked it. For me, there are even sections of the rides that feel like wormholes within the ride. So, forthwith, …
About developing these rides… The saddest thing about preparing to master the roads and routes of Staten Island (to map the best bike rides on Staten Island) was how dedicated cyclists who lived in the borough told me the riding wasn’t good. I appreciated the honesty, noted the blasé humor as an affect of weary …
Queens Rides Are Up. (If you want to skip the Queens love and get to the rides, scroll down) I’ve been riding through Queens for years. However, starting in Manhattan and crossing the Queensboro Bridge, it was hard to get beyond the idea that the borough is choked with cars driving too fast. One of …
