Biking early Sunday morning from the Upper East Side to Brooklyn’s Prospect Park is a quick 15 mile ride. On this day, I was heading to Prospect Park to ride with several of my college friends (GO BEARCATS!). My route took me up over the 59th Street Bridge and then down along the waterfront through Long Island City, Greenpoint, Williamsburg, and finally Park Slope.
Riding to the park versus driving or taking the train was an easy warm up, and an easy way to tack on a few extra miles. At 9am we all met at Grand Army Plaza before heading in to the park. After a few laps of the park we decided to head out in to Brooklyn and explore. As a group we rode along the waterfront in to Red Hook, then Dumbo, Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and finally East to Bushwick.
After beer and burritos we rode back. The guys went their way back towards Prospect Park and I made my way towards Manhattan, where I first started my ride. 50 miles in the books!