| Bicycles are making a big comeback as far as a | | | | turn helped with building the modern velodromes |
| means of transportation to and from work in | | | | in the suburbs. These indoor tracks have steeply |
| NYC. Due to rising gasoline cost as well as prices | | | | banked oval tracks for racing bicycles. |
| of automobiles, insurance, lack of parking space, | | | | · Pelham Parkway, Bronx |
| and licensing many are looking for an alternative | | | | Hold weekly races at inner city locations including |
| to driving the family sedan to work. Subways are | | | | Madison Square Garden. Madison Racing, an |
| always nearby but many find them too crowded | | | | Olympic sport is aptly named after those racing |
| and confining, preferring instead to bike it to | | | | cyclists at the Garden. A greenway which runs |
| where they want to go. | | | | through the Pelham Bay Park then across the |
| The city of New York is biker friendly yet has its | | | | Bronx and along Mosholu Parkway and on to Van |
| challenges to overcome. Traffic, both automobile | | | | Cortlandt Park and then connects with the South |
| and pedestrian can conflict with bicycling | | | | County Parkway is also popular. |
| commuters, yet the flatness of the terrain around | | | | · Manhattan Waterfront Greenway |
| the city makes it easy to ride around. There are | | | | In addition with the Brooklyn Queens Greenway |
| many bike riders in the greater New York area, | | | | are not as continuously segregated yet designed |
| many of which are delivery persons and | | | | for great biking. |
| messengers who deliver to many of the office | | | | Robert Moses was a master builder in NYC. Many |
| buildings. There is an increasing amount of daily | | | | of his parkway projects designed in the mid 20th |
| commuters who like the freedom of riding their | | | | century included bike paths. Later miles of biker |
| own set of wheels that also happens to be a | | | | friendly pathway were either refurbished or |
| cheap mode of transportation. Additionally NYC is | | | | created along the Manhattan Waterfront |
| considered a bike friendly environment due to the | | | | Greenway as well as other bikeways. |
| many miles of bicycle paths and designated places | | | | As a majority of the residents and workers in |
| for bikers to ride. Areas around Central Park, | | | | New York have sit down desk type jobs five |
| crossing the Brooklyn Bridge, riding in Prospect | | | | days a week, many choose to exercise on |
| Park, along the Hudson River Bicycle Path, are all | | | | weekends and daily after work. Bicycling offers an |
| fairly safe and enjoyable areas in which to ride | | | | excellent way to "stretch ones legs" and get |
| simply for the fun of it. Some areas | | | | outdoors in the fresh air and sunshine throughout |
| accommodating to bike riders are: | | | | most of the year. While many of the bike |
| · The City of Brooklyn | | | | pathways run along the same lanes as the |
| The city provides excellent bike paths along the | | | | motorized traffic, bikers as well as vehicle |
| Eastern Parkway, Ocean Parkway, and the | | | | operators must watch out for each other and |
| Brooklyn Bridge. | | | | cooperate with the rules of the road just as |
| · Washington Heights, Manhattan | | | | anywhere else in the world. But NYC has proven |
| Created a riding competition as well as a | | | | it can be done and bike riders appreciate the |
| spectator sport with the six day racing which in | | | | economy of riding their bicycles. |