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This tour is for those in good shape who are looking for a unique, faster paced, and challenging ride. Since each of the bridges has its own dedicated bike path, the challenge lies in the heights to scale. While not quite the Alps, it is nonetheless up and down, up and down, up and down, up and down, as we go over four great bridges! It all begins in East Harlem as we head to the Triboro bridge, which links three of the five city boroughs. We make a stop in Randall’s Island, a large city park in the middle of the river with an important sewage treatment and refinement plant!
In Queens, we enter Astoria, a traditional Greek neighborhood. Here we’ll briefly stop at Socrates Park, with an eclectic mix of
sculpture you will not see anywhere else in the city. Then through Long Island City, past a giant Pepsi sign, to Gantry State Park.
Here you will have an incredible view across from the United Nations. With the help of historic photos from our bike the big apple archives you’ll experience first hand how the city as dramatically changed over the past century. Entering Brooklyn, we will ride through a Polish immigrant neighborhood that reflects how average folk live outside of Manhattan. Williamsburg, the next Brooklyn neighborhood, has two parts. The northern one is an very hip, “in” community of artists, intellectuals, and yuppies. As we enter the southern part, we will pass by a steak house that is viewed by many as the “best in the city, if not the world!” (typical New York bravado!)
Next over the Williamsburg bridge, on its own bike path back into Manhattan. In the Lower East Side you will have the opportunity
to look at 100 year old photos as we stop at the very spot they were taken. We’ll pedal through Chinatown, with its signs in
Chinese so that the local population can understand them. Onto the Manhattan bridge bike path and back into Brooklyn. Into Dumbo,
another new and very “in” section of the city, with a view of the Manhattan skyline that will lead you to want to end
the tour right there! The culmination of this special tour is a ride over the Brooklyn Bridge, an engineering and esthetic masterpiece. The spectacular views from the bike lane, located above the traffic, provide another only in the big apple photo op! Back in lower Manhattan, if there is time we will bike around the financial district, past the stock exchange and ground zero too. This tour is about 26 miles and takes 8-9 hours and therefore costs $105 per person. “My family of five, including three older teens, took your bridge delight tour on a hot summer’s day. We began on a tired and hot note, wary too of city traffic. Your patience and enthusiasm was simply contagious. By the end of this six hour tour, we were all rejuvenated and enjoying every moment of it, especially the downhills on each of the bridges and the incredible vistas! What an incredible way to see the city for the first time! Indeed, in our two week vacation to New York, Washington & Orlando, I honestly can tell you that our most endearing memory was your bike tour of New York.” --John Dobson, Stoke-on-Trent, England |
