Sixth Avenue (Manhattan). 5 Boro Bike Tour 2011. May 1, 2011. #bikenyc #5boro

Yarn Bike. SoHo, NYC.

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 Central Park. It was fantastic.

Here are some photos from the ride.

This is one of the slotRadio players they gave us with the ride soundtrack created by Duncan Bridgeman:

This is about half of us stopped at an intersection:

The dumpster pools at 40th Street:

This girl had a really cool homemade bike:

How awesome is this picnic setup?

I met Maria. We shop at the same online store.

The Blessing of the Bikes

View of Midtown from Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

This annoys me sometimes even more than cars parked in a bike lane. There’s an empty, 20-foot-wide sidewalk directly to your left!

Took this on the Broadway bike lane between Times Square Madison Square Park and Herald Square in Manhattan.