August 2010
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Satisfy your post-bike hunger at the Red Hook...
Biking makes me hungry. And after I’ve done a few loops in Prospect Park on a Saturday (or Sunday), it’s often a taco or huarache from the Red Hook Food Vendors that I crave.
It’s all authentic Latin food — very fresh, perfectly salty, and ideal for scarfing down at a picnic table with your bikes parked next to you.
After our ride this afternoon, we pedaled the 2.5 miles...
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Part of Brooklyn Bridge Park bike & ped lane...
Looks like a section of the Brooklyn Bridge Park bike path might be opening soon!
Took this photo on my way home from work today. The path will obviously begin where the new temporary bike lane on Furman Street ends (photo below).
NY Post literally JUST put up a brief story about this saying it will stretch up to Pier 1 near Old Fulton Street. The story said it should open in the next week!...
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A #bikenyc day trip: Roosevelt Avenue food trucks
I joined about 30 other biking foodies today for a trip to the food trucks on Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights, Queens — one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the world. If you love food adventures, this is place is a MUST-visit! There were at least a dozen trucks along a 15-or-so block stretch of Roosevelt serving up everything from shrimp ceviche to pig ear tacos.
Thanks to Anita of...
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On first Summer Streets of 2010, a Joy Ride!
A big thanks to the NYC DOT and everyone else who helped hand over Park Avenue and Lafayette Street to bikers and pedestrians today — the first Summer Streets of the summer! If you missed it today, make sure you take a ride next Saturday, or the Saturday after that.
I was lucky enough to get a spot on today’s Joy Ride, a bike ride set to music that ended with a delicious picnic in...
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READ THIS amazing tale of a guy in Brooklyn whose... →
And the cops made an arrest! Everything about this just made me smile…
(Found via this tweet from @jeremysomething with #bikenyc hastag)
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Prospect Park West traffic is 25 percent slower... →
Streetsblog reports on this amazing change in the traffic climate along the edge of the park. Reason to celebrate!