NYC’s Five Boro Bike Tour returns this weekend, along with street closures
Thousands of cyclists are gearing up to participate in the annual TD Five Boro Bike Tour on Sunday, with multiple road closures across New York City set to take effect that morning.
The 40-mile bike tour’s 46th edition will kick off at 7:30 a.m. in Lower Manhattan, where riders will start rolling inCentral Park, Harlem and the Bronx before crossing the FDR Drive and the Queensboro Bridge to Long Island City. The route will then take them over the Pulaski Bridge to Greenpoint, followed by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. Cyclists will finish at Fort Wadsworth in Staten Island, and can return to Manhattan via the Staten Island Ferry.
The start area, which funnels to Sixth Avenue, is slated to reopen to car traffic around noon. Other roads along the route will remain closed into the afternoon, and the Staten Island-bound lower level of the Verrazzano Bridge, when 250 riders attempted to hit all five boroughs in a day, according to the event’s organizers. Now, it typically attracts more than 30,000 participants from dozens of countries on the first Sunday of every May.
The official tour program and ride guide for the TD Five Boro Bike Tour, along with other resources and information, can be foundGiulia Heyward is a reporter on the People and Power desk who covers politics and breaking news. She previously worked at NPR, as a breaking news reporter, and the New York Times, as a reporting fellow on the national desk. Her work has also appeared in CNN, The Atlantic and Politico.
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