a few of the best pictures of today’s 5 Boro Bike Tour posted to flickr.

Created as a Father’s Day event in 1973 by David A. Walker, the Harlem Skyscraper Cycling Classic is the oldest continually held bike race in New York. The three-quarter-mile circuit around Marcus Garvey Park hosts the nation’s fastest criterium specialists for a 55-lap spin. A variety of children and amateur bicycle races were held before [...]

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 [...]

Photos from the 2008 New York City Five Boro Bike Tour:
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Google’s street view photography + the NYC Bike Map = the New York City Street View Bike Map

View street level photographs of New York City that allow you to zoom, pan, and rotate. Great for scouting and planning bike routes.

On June 15, 1894, Brooklyn’s Ocean Parkway became the home of the country’s first bike path. Inspired by the grand boulevards of Europe and designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux , Ocean Parkway stretches over five miles from Brooklyn’s Prospect Park to Coney Island. History of Brooklyn’s Ocean Parkway 1860’s – Frederick Law [...]