Meet up: Pelham Bay Park. (just over the walkway, outside of the Pelham Bay subway #6 station) 40 miles, 13-15 NO DAWDLE mph

Yes, there are over 800 monuments – and stories – in the Gotham City. But we'll be visiting only nine of those, scattered in all five of the boroughs. We begin in Pelham Bay Park, in the far northeastern corner of the Bronx, and cycle down through Harlem, then over to Calvary Cemetery in the Queens rustbelt, then over Newton Creek to Fort Greene and back into Manhattan and the Battery. As this is a Five Borough Monument Tour, we paddle over to Staten Island for one last monument. Lunch is at Sisters Caribbean Cuisine in Harlem, halfway through the ride, and Victory brews at the Battery Beer Garden after. Stops include: The Bronx Victory Memorial (Pelhan Bay Park), The Chief Nimham Memorial (Indian Field, Van Cortlandt), The Bill "Bojangles" Robinson Mural (Harlem), The Delacorte Clock (Central Park Zoo), The Calvary Monument (Newton Creek, Queens), The Prison Ship Martyr's Memorial (Fort Greene, Brooklyn), Titanic Park and the American Merchant Marine Memorial in Lower Manhattan.   Leaders: Rodney Millard, Jesse Brown. Josh Gosciak