This ride is loosely themed around the late Chadwick Boseman's 21 Bridges.  The aspiration is to ride 17 of 21 bike allowed bridges connecting Manhattan.  For Part3/7, we check off the Roosevelt Island Bridge and the Williamsburg Bridge.  Not just bridge riding, we discover neighborhoods on the other side of the bridges.

We start near Queens College and use the 34th Ave open streets to get to Northern Blvd, where there is a new bike lane.  Turning on to 36th Ave, we will cross the Roosevelt Island Bridge and do a small loop on Rooz Island.  Over the 59Br to Manhattan, we cruise the Broadway spine of Manhattan down to Washington Square Park.

Some highlights along the way:  MOMA, Times Square, Bryant Park, Empire State Bldg, Flat Iron Bldg, Union Square Park.  We will pick up lunch from Bleeker Street Pizza and eat and relax in Washington Square Park, which has public restrooms.  A quick tour of West and East Village, then back to Queens using the Williamsburg Bridge where we will Grand Street and Avenue our way back Flushing Meadow Park .  Lastly we local back street a return to Queens College.

This bike tourism ride is rated Moderate with a distance of 31 miles and urban riding pace of 10 mph.  Most of the streets will have bike lanes or wider lanes.  Some City traffic.      750 ft. elevation.  This ride is covid restricted to 10+2!

Important:  Please ‘unregister’ in a timely manner if you can no longer make the ride.  This will allow others on the waitlist to participate.  Please do not register if you do not intend to ride the complete route.  This action would deprive a fellow member the opportunity to ride the complete route.

The start location is in the vicinity of Queens College.  Exact details for start location, leader info, and RWG will be emailed to 'complete' ride registrants WED evening before the ride.  Wait listed registrants will be duly notified by email if their status has been changed to 'complete' and provided ride details.  Check out the highlight links!

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