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5 Boro Bike Tour 2010

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

Pilgrim Hill
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20.5” of heavy wet snow blanketed Central Park and made for some excellent sledding last weekend. Inspired by the USA 1 Four Man Bobsledding gold medal the iParks NY Park Test Team sets out for Pilgrim Hill in Central Park to begin training for Sochi 2014...and beyond!

PilgrimHill

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Park Test Files #3, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Brooklyn Bridge Park
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On our continuing quest to enhance iParks NY the Park Test Team sets out for Brooklyn Bridge Park...and wow was it cold this weekend. Highs in the teens with a wind chill around zero. No need for false precision, it was just plain cold.

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.

MainStPlayground

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