5 Boro Bike Tour 2010
May 07 2010 05:41 PM
For 33 years the 5 Boro Bike Tour has wound its way through NYC streets and bridges on the first Sunday of May. Riders follow a 42 mile route (map) that starts in Battery Park, heads north through Central Park up into the Bronx, comes back down the FDR and across the Queensboro Bridge into Queens, then heads up to Astoria Park before turning south through Brooklyn and finally proceeds across the Verrazano Bridge to Staten Island. Riders then hop on the Staten Island Ferry back to Battery Park.

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Park Test Files #4, Snowtastrophe
Mar 01 2010 02:22 PM
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Park Test Files #3, Brooklyn Bridge Park
Feb 01 2010 11:02 PM
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I grew up in MI where one cultivates a healthy “respek” for frost bite, while the Park Test Mom grew up in Mumbai where people wear jeans year round and anything below a daytime high of 90 is a respite. And yet she and the rest of the Park Test Team are the ones who could not care less how cold it is. Snow pants? Not really. Mittens? No daddy, it’s much more fun for you to unfreeze my frozen fingers...yes I know that the mitten clips make my hand wear highly accessible but no, I still will not wear them.

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