Urban

The ride starts at the Queensborough Bridge and we head over the Kosciuszko Bridge bike path into Greenpoint.   Williamsburg and the distinctive historic sections of Bedford-Stuyvesant are next, then a pit stop in Canarsie Park before catching the Shore Parkway Greenway westbound.  On the way to Bay Ridge we pass through Sheepshead Bay and Dyker Heights.  Our lunch stop is in Bay Ridge on a street where the storefront signs are in Arabic and where you sometimes see women in burkas.  The Yemen Café (yemencafe.com) at 5^th Avenue & Ovington has a tasty,

This is a 30 mile ride that starts at QueensBoro Bridge (or the Ed Koch, if you must) and explores beautiful Queens waterfront.  Hate riding around LaGuardia airport to get to Flushing Bay Promenade?  This route takes you through scenic Jackson Heights on a bike lane.  No more Ditmars Boulevard and dodging cars coming out of LaGuardia.  We ride all the way through Flushing Meadows/Corona Park and through Forest Hills Gardens to look at spectacular homes.  We cruise through Forest Park.

This route takes you through many interesting neighborhoods and parks in Queens & Brooklyn.  (Neighborhoods are named on the cue sheet, so you'll know where you are.) Lunch is at Bejako Sekuwa, a Nepalese restaurant.

This is an interesting ramble through the Bronx from the Central Park Boathouse via Randall’s Island connector to City Island with return to Manhattan via the High Bridge. The route takes advantage of many greenways through Soundview, Pugsley and Pelham Bay Parks. The loop around the SUNY Maritime Campus beneath the Throg’s Neck Bridge is spectacular.