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Have you ever wondered how to bike to City Island from Manhattan? Now you know! Check out the five great other routes up at Recteck-- the most bizarre is the nine bridge circumnavigation of Jamaica Bay. That's probably not for beginners!
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So very cool. Can't wait until spring!
Too hilly at the north tip of manhattan. Why not just cut over to the bronx at 3rd ave bridge or 149th st bridge.
I did the ferry from Hoboken with the bike once. It wound up being $6.50 and they lost one of my bungee cords! (You need two bungee cords to secure your bike on the ferry.)
PATH at $1.50 is a much better deal, although not as scenic.
Spring started a few days ago.
Come on Surfer? Don't wimp out like that. I live right by the GWB and, along with quite a lot of folk, love to cross it and bike up and down the Palisades. That's 20 miles of climbing 100 feet, descending 300 then climbing 200 again.
This is a great find.
I'm still dreaming about a bike trail looping the entire island of Manhattan that Guiliani promised so many years ago. Sigh.
That route blows for many reasons:
1)The Henry Hudson Bridge is nearly impossible to find the bike path to. You have to go up and down several flights of stairs over train tracks through a very desserted Inwood Hill Park. Once you're over, you're left by the highway next to nothing. I recommendtaking the bike path to Dyckman, up seaman, over and across the Broadway bridge, then up broadway to the Van Courtland Bike paths.
2) The Mosholu parkway greenway could be much better. Lots of glass and shit up there. No one sweeps it up and there is a lot of cracked pavement and hard to follow signage.
3) Its easy to get lost at Bronx Park. There is a turnoff that goes North, that seems right but puts you in Westchester. Not fun.
4) Pelham Park can be a little tricky as well. Once again there is a turnoff for city Island that is easy to miss if you've never been before. It's also easy to accidentaly end up riding along an old path by the parkways. Not a good idea.
Anyway, it's a cool ride and really nice once you get there. Just bring a map, and a pump and an extra tube and leave lots of time for backtracking and getting lost.