Craig Hammerman, District Manager of CB6, sent this missive about the Annual Five Boro Bike Tour on May 4th:
Sunday, May 4th, is the Annual Five Boro Bike Tour, please be advised that in our area the Brooklyn-Queens/Gowanus Expressways from the Atlantic Avenue entrance through the Shore Road exit on the Belt Parkway will be impacted as they are part of the route.
I thought you might be interested in the following announcement sent out by the Mayor’s Office…
Street Closings for Five Boro Bike Tour – Sunday, May 4
The Commerce Bank Five Boro Bike Tour travels through the five boroughs, starting in Lower Manhattan at 8:00 am, heading north to Central Park and continuing on to Harlem and the Bronx, returning south along the East River on the FDR Drive, crossing into Queens and then Brooklyn, before crossing the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge to Staten Island. The detailed route of the Bike Tour is available on the DOT Web site in pdf format at http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/fiveborobiketour.pdf.The Bike Tour moves through the five boroughs on a timetable. The front of the Tour travels at 15 mph and the tail at 6 mph. The streets along the route will be closed during the Bike Tour.
The Staten Island Ferry will operate on a Saturday schedule, with half-hour service from 7:00 am to 11:00 pm.More information about the event is available on the Bike New York Web site at http://www.bikenewyork.org or call 212-932-BIKE.
# # #To all the cyclists out there — may the roads be smooth and the wind be at your backs!
The pdf is the “turn sheet” and everyone participating should probably print it out AND bring a street map.
A couple of years ago I had a breakdown during the Tour de Brooklyn. The Transportation Alternatives volunteers, earnest as they were, had no idea of where the closest subway station would be in that area of, I think, Bushwick. Police at these events also tend to be from elsewhere and not know the community they’re in.