Because of of a very positive development related to a family health issue, I (Bill Mastro), will not be able to be there Saturday. However, a special thank you to Geoff Cohen, who has stepped up to fill-in, as ride leader. The ride will go on.

Time for our classic spring ride - empanadas. Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens - we meander from the industrial to the bucolic, from the commercial to the high-end and not-so-high-end residential, plus some cemeteries (it's Queens, after all), a ride by the velodrome and empanadas in Corona for lunch. Ride will end at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, but riders will have options to head to Manhattan via the 59th Street, Williamsburg or Manhattan Bridge.