RRR#3: From the Rider's Survey

Continuing our survey of Real Rider's Routes, here's a sampling of some of your favorite places to ride around Bay Ridge and Brooklyn, and beyond. These replies were taken from our continuing online survey.


11 ave / 75 st to L & B spumoni gardens

from 92st down colonial to 69st pier onto bike path to bay pkwy, back to 100st , down 3 av to 92 st

Prospect Park, The Rockaways, or take the train into the city to ride Central Park or out over the GWB

Coney Island
Manhattan Beach
Prospect Park
In neighborhood below 3rd Avenue

bay ridge to sheepshead bay

Shore Road
Bicycle Commuting to/from Bay Ridge
Prospect Park
Floyd Bennett Field

Along shore road & the water.
Shopping on third avenue.
Toward prospect park.


Links to RRR#1 and RRR#2. Send us your favorite or most frequent rides!

Marty, I thought we were friends?

... well, at least we're still Facebook Friends.

Marty: Enough with the bike lanes! Brooklyn is not Amsterdam!





Well, that's a bummer, our Brooklyn Borough President has had his fill of bike lanes in Brooklyn.

Maybe he read our early blog roll-out and post about Amsterdam?

Technically though, he's correct: Breukelen is not Amsterdam. It's about 30km south.

CB10 Now Favors a Bike Lane (and Turn Lane)

Hi folks! We were back, but were away just long enough last week to miss the Community Board 10 meeting where DOT came to discuss bicycle lanes in Bay Ridge. Apparently, we missed a lot... read about it at the Brooklyn Paper:



“We’d be OK with a designated bike lane,” said Doris Cruz, chairwoman of the board’s transportation committee, which suggested that it would approve the lane if the city installed left-turn bays for cars between Third and Sixth avenues on Bay Ridge Parkway.

Read the full story here:
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/33/43/br_cb10bikelane_2010_10_23_bk.html

One of our prior blog posts about Bay Ridge Parkway:
http://brbrbrooklyn.blogspot.com/2010/08/bay-ridge-parkway-quick-view.html