The New York Cycle Club’s annual Escape New York bike ride will be held on Saturday, September 26, 2009 . Routes: Choose from three clearly marked Escape New York options: 7:00 am: Century Challenge, 100 miles. A rolling full century through beautiful Bergen and Rockland counties. 8:00 am: Rockland Roll, 65 miles. Ramble on lightly [...]

Summer Streets are coming back in August… For three Saturdays in August, New York City will have a 6.9 mile car-free path leading from the Brooklyn Bridge in Lower Manhattan to the East 72nd Street entrance of Central Park.    The street closures will occur from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on three consecutive Saturdays [...]

Here is a video from a recent bicycle ride on the Prince Street bike lane in Manhattan, which was one of the first painted bike lanes in NYC. view more videos from NYC Bike Maps View Prince Street on Bike Map Prince Street Bike Lane Ride Video on YouTube Filmed with a GoPro Helmet Hero [...]

May is Bike Month in NYC and there are plenty of bicycling events going on in and around New York City. BikeMonthNYC.org has the most comprehensive coverage, including an Event Calendar.

The Five Boro Bike Tour, the largest recreational cycling event in the United States, is scheduled for Sunday, May 3rd 2009. Every year on the first Sunday of May, over 30,000 riders participate in the 42 mile ride around New York City.

Streets Blog has confirmed that the existing Grand Street bike lane between Varick and Chrystie is being replaced with a protected bicycle path.   The bike path will be located on the far right of the street separated from traffic by a 3 foot curb and is the first cross town bike route separated from traffic.  [...]

Photos taken during the Summer Streets events. Three Saturdays in August, New York City had a 6.9 mile car-free path leading from the Brooklyn Bridge in Lower Manhattan to the East 72nd Street entrance of Central Park. The street closures occured from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on three consecutive Saturdays in August, the 9th, [...]

The NYC Century offers five route options (ranging from 15 to 100 miles) to provide all cyclists a great way to see New York City and explore some of the City’s best greenways and parks. NYC Century starts view NYC Century 100 Mile Route Map Choose your distance, Ride your Pace 15 mile: Lead by [...]

July 10–14: Free Bikes The NYC DOT continues to impress announcing that it will experiment with a bike share program to “create a network of publicly accessible bicycles at minimal cost, and could provide an important transportation link at transit hubs and commercial and social areas”. More info at NYbikeshare.orgMore info at NY Bike Share [...]

New York City will be home to four man-made waterfalls in the East River and New York Harbor thanks to artist Olaf Eliasson’s “New York City Waterfalls” project. The temporary art installation will be place from June 26th to October 13th, 2008. The DOT has put out a great map for cyclists to take a [...]