Tens of 1000’s of cyclists will bike via New York Metropolis right this moment for the forty seventh Annual TD 5 Boro Bike Tour.
Saturday morning, members headed to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Morningside Heights for the “Blessing of the Bikes,” a 27-year custom led this 12 months by the Very Rev. Dr. Patrick Malloy.
Simply outdoors the cathedral, town Division of Transportation held a helmet giveaway. DOT staff helped riders get their helmets fitted correctly.
“Biking is usually a little costly, for positive. It isn’t the most cost effective pastime, so it is actually nice that they are not less than taking that burden off of riders. They usually’re nice helmets,” bicycle owner Rebekah Isaacs stated.
5 Boro Bike Tour begin occasions
The primary wave of riders will begin at 7:30 a.m. on Sunday, Could 4, with subsequent waves departing at 8:30 a.m., 9:15 a.m., 9:50 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.
5 Boro Bike Tour route map
The tour takes members on a 40-mile experience from Decrease Manhattan, via the Bronx, over to Queens and down via Brooklyn to Staten Island.
TD Five Boro Bike Tour
5 Boro Bike Tour road closures
The route closes to vehicular site visitors at 7:15 a.m. Sixth Avenue will reopen to vehicles at midday.
The New York Metropolis Division of Transportation has introduced the next street closures:
Manhattan
- Greenwich Avenue between Battery Place and Morris Avenue
- Trinity Place between Morris Avenue and Liberty Avenue
- Church Avenue between Liberty Avenue and Canal Avenue
- Chambers Avenue between Broadway and West Avenue
- Value Avenue between Broadway and West Broadway
- Canal Avenue between Broadway and sixth Avenue
- sixth Avenue between Franklin Avenue and West 59th Avenue
- West 59th Avenue between sixth Avenue and fifth Avenue
- Grand Military Plaza between West 59th Avenue and East Drive
- East Drive between Grand Military Plaza and Heart Drive
- Heart Drive between fifth Avenue and East Drive
- East Drive between Heart Drive and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard between West a hundred and tenth Avenue and West one hundred and thirty fifth Avenue
- East / West one hundred and thirty fifth Avenue between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and Madison Avenue
- Madison Avenue between East one hundred and thirty fifth Avenue and East 138th Avenue
- Madison Avenue Bridge (Bronx-bound)
- Harlem River Drive / FDR Drive (Southbound) between third Avenue Bridge and East 116th Avenue
- East 116th Avenue between FDR Drive and Nice Avenue
- Nice Avenue between East 116th Avenue and East 114th Avenue
- Harlem River Drive / FDR Drive (Southbound) between 116th Avenue and 63rd Avenue Exit
- East 63rd Avenue between FDR Drive (Southbound) and Queensboro Bridge Exit
- Queensboro Bridge Exit between East 63rd Avenue and East sixtieth Avenue
- Queensboro Bridge Higher Stage (Manhattan-bound)
The Bronx
- 138th Avenue between Madison Avenue Bridge and third Avenue
- third Avenue between 138th Avenue and third Avenue Bridge
- third Avenue Bridge (Manhattan-bound)
Queens
- Queens Plaza South between twenty first Avenue and Vernon Boulevard / Alternate Route
- twenty first Avenue between forty third Avenue and Queens Plaza South
- twenty first Avenue between Queens Plaza South and Hoyt Avenue North
- Hoyt Avenue North between twenty first Avenue and nineteenth Avenue
- nineteenth Avenue between Hoyt Avenue North and Ditmars Boulevard
- Ditmars Boulevard between nineteenth Avenue and Shore Boulevard
- Shore Boulevard between Ditmars Boulevard and Astoria Park South
- Astoria Park South between Shore Boulevard and 14th Avenue
- 14th Avenue between Astoria Park South and thirty first Avenue
- thirty first Avenue between 14th Avenue and Vernon Boulevard
- Vernon Boulevard between thirty first Avenue and forty fourth Drive
- forty fourth Drive between Vernon Boulevard and eleventh Avenue
- eleventh Avenue between forty fourth Drive and Pulaski Bridge
- Pulaski Bridge (Brooklyn-bound)
Brooklyn
- McGuiness Boulevard between Pulaski Bridge and Greenpoint Avenue
- Java Avenue between McGuinness Boulevard and Franklin Avenue
- Greenpoint Avenue between McGuinness Boulevard and Franklin Avenue
- Franklin Avenue between Java Avenue and North 14th Avenue
- Kent Avenue between North 14th Avenue and Williamsburg Avenue West
- Williamsburg Avenue West between Kent Avenue and Flushing Avenue
- Flushing Avenue between Williamsburg Avenue West and Navy Avenue
- North Elliot Place between Flushing Avenue and Park Avenue
- Navy Avenue between Flushing Avenue and York Avenue
- York Avenue between Navy Avenue and Gold Avenue
- Gold Avenue between York Avenue and Entrance Avenue
- Entrance Avenue between Gold Avenue and Previous Fulton Avenue
- Previous Fulton between Furman Avenue and Entrance Avenue
- Furman Avenue between Previous Fulton Avenue and Atlantic Avenue
- Atlantic Avenue between Furman Avenue and Columbia Avenue
- Columbia Avenue between Atlantic Avenue and BQE West Entrance Columbia Avenue
- BQE / Gowanus Expressway between BQE West Entrance Columbia Avenue and Verrazano
- Verrazano Bridge Decrease Stage (Staten Island-bound)
Staten Island
- Bay Avenue between New York Avenue and Hylan Boulevard
- Hylan Boulevard between Bay Avenue and Edgewater Avenue
- Edgewater Avenue/ Entrance Avenue between Hylan Boulevard and Hannah Avenue
- Hannah Avenue between Entrance Avenue and Bay Avenue
- Bay Avenue between Hannah Avenue and Richmond Terrace
- Richmond Terrace between Bay Avenue and Nicholas Avenue Wall Avenue between Richmond Terrace and Useless Finish
