Best Bike Rides New York City: Great Recreational Rides in the Five Boroughs

by Mary Staub

Overview

Best Bike Rides New York City describes more than 40 of the greatest recreational rides in New York City. Road rides, rail trails, bike paths, and single-track mountain bike rides all get included. Most rides are in the 5 to 30 mile range, allowing for great afternoon outings and family adventures.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762784455
Publisher:	Falcon Guides
Publication date:	05/20/2014
Series:	Best Bike Rides Series
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	423,686
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Mary Staub is a freelance journalist and passionate cyclist who has been exploring the New York City metro area by bike for more than ten years. Biking is part of who she is and always has been. Whether for commuting or for leisure, whether in sub-freezing temperatures or on sultry summer days, whether where she lives or where she travels, biking is what she has always done. Inherently inquisitive, her interests have led her into various journalistic territories including travel writing, community reporting, mainstream news, and dance writing. Publications she's written for include Travel + Leisure, the New York Sun, Basler Zeitung, dance journals including Ballet Tanz and Dancer Magazine, the technology news site Tech Media Network. She lives in Brooklyn.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements viii

Introduction: Why Bike New York City? ix

About This Book x

Riding with This Book xi

Bicycling in New York City xv

Ride Finder xvii

Author's Note xxi

Map Legend xxii

Manhattan

1 The Hudson River 2

2 The Heights 10

3 Central Park 17

4 The Upper West Side: Grande Dames 25

5 Harlem Heritage Tour 31

6 The Village's Heyday 38

7 Early East Side Ethnic Enclaves 45

8 Randall's and Wards Islands 54

9 Three Bridges Tour 61

10 Governors Island 68

11 Roosevelt Island 74

12 Liberty State Park-A Waterfront Tour 80

13 A Great Escape-The Palisades 90

Brooklyn

14 Bridging Two Boroughs-From Downtown Brooklyn to Downtown Manhattan 98

15 Harbor Views 106

16 Floyd Bennett Field 112

17 Brooklyn's Maritime Moorings 119

18 Literary Lives of Brooklyn 125

19 Williamsburg and Greenpoint 133

20 Following a Fort Greene Forefather 140

21 Victorian Brooklyn 147

22 Prospect Park 152

23 Cultures and Coasts-Historic Ocean Parkway to Coney Island 159

Queens

24 Waterfront Arts Loop 168

25 Queens Green ways to Fort Totten 174

26 Jamaica Bay 183

27 Quintessential Queens Communities 190

28 Flushing Meadows Corona Park and Flushing Bay Promenade 197

29 The Rockaways and Fort Tilden 204

30 Forest Park and Forest Hills Gardens 211

Staten Island

31 Staten Island Parks 218

32 Beaches and Bastions 226

33 Greenbelt Parks and Parishes 234

34 Staten Island North to South 244

The Bronx

35 Orchard Beach and City Island 252

36 The Grand Concourse 260

37 A Grid of Greenways 266

38 South Bronx Treasures 272

39 A Bronx Rumble to Wave Hill 279

40 Old Putnam Trail and South County Trailway 287

Bicycling Resources 292

Ride Index 294

About the Author 295