The Best Bike Rides in and around NYC.
It finally happened. Three or four years behind schedule, but the path on the north side of the George Washington Bridge finally opened. The south side path is finally closed–and will be for the next four years. No more walking five sets of stairs just to cross the Hudson, now it’s all ADA-compliant smooth and …
Thanks for stopping by Where to Bike New York City. We’ve got rides here. Lots of routes. Rides for the downloading. Whatever you want to call them. We show you where to ride. We tell you where to ride New York City. Rides in all five boroughs (The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island), as …
New York City is a great place to ride a bicycle. And it’s getting better. I expect it will take some convincing for you to believe the above. So hereforth I’m offering up a listicle. Seven Reasons Why NYC is great for riding. Seven is a great number for a listicle, and the reasons outlined …
The New York City Waterfront Plan The Department of City Planning just release a draft version of their comprehensive New York City Waterfront Plan. It envisions how the 520-miles of New York City Waterfront will look in 2030. It’s about trying to create more usable space while mitigating and/or resisting adverse effect of global warming. …
Follow @wheretoridenyc on instagram. Yes, I know. It reads @wheretoride not @wheretobike. There’s a reason. The reason is that while I created and have the password for @wheretobikenyc, instagram won’t allow me access to that account. I have made many attempts to solve this issue. I went through the help portal for instagram. I read …
C’mon New York City Department of Transportation! I love that you have a newsletter, but the April one should come out on April 2, not on April 29. People can find it here. It’s great that you’re linking to the 2021 bike map, but here, too, it would be great to have the paper version …
Bennett’s Bicycles Shop Profile When I first started researching rides for WTBNYC, I thought Staten Island would be great riding territory. I was quickly brought down to earth. I called up both bike shops on the island, Bennett’s and The Bike Shop of Staten Island, and one of the people answering the phone told me …
One package. Reduced cost. More options. Simpler. Cheaper. More flexible. Rather than going through each ride and weighing the pros and cons of each, just get all The Best Bronx Bike Route Bundle is all the WTBNYC Bronx rides in one fell swoop. Bronx Bike Routes Mapped. Maybe it’s a little ambitious. But it’s a …
Ever ridden north on 9W from the GWB to Bear Mountain? Ever been on the Jones Point Path? After riding north through Tompkins Cove, there’s a final hill to tackle before the turnoff to Bear. It’s often referred to as Dunderberg, for the adjacent mountain. The climb isn’t much, about a mile at around …
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