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Bike the Bronx
United States
Приєднався 25 сер 2020
Exploring the Bronx by bike can be rewarding. Here are some worthwhile cycling destinations in and around New York's greenest borough.
The Stones of Hunter Island - Pelham Bay Park, Bronx, N.Y.
Hunter Island is part of the New York City Park System and an extension of of Bronx Pelham Bay Park. It is a home to diverse wildlife and unique a unique forest and marshland habitat in the confines of New York City. It offers walking and mountain biking trails with beautiful seascape vistas and forested lands. Worth a visit.
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The Little Red Lighthouse
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The Little Red Lighthouse, officially Jeffrey's Hook Light, is a small lighthouse located in Fort Washington Park along the Hudson River in Manhattan, New York City, under the George Washington Bridge.[2][3][4] It was made notable by the 1942 children's book The Little Red Lighthouse and The Great Gray Bridge, written by Hildegarde Swift and illustrated by Lynd Ward. The lighthouse stands on Je...
Biking the George Washington Bridge "Northwalk" crossing.
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The "Northwalk " Hudson River Crossing over the George Washington Bridge is open for business.
Ferry Point Park East in Winter
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If you’re looking for spectacular views, take a stroll in this expansive Bronx park. With one and a half miles of prime waterfront, Ferry Point Park offers unparalleled views of the East River and Long Island Sound, the Manhattan skyline, and of the Whitestone and Throgs Neck Bridges. If a great outlook isn’t enough, how about some sports? Ferry Point Park offers visitors playing fields for soc...
Dyckman to Van Cortlandt Via Broadway Bridge
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This 3-mile Empire State Trail section is an on-road connection from northwest Manhattan to the Bronx. This section is appropriate for experienced bicyclists comfortable riding in city traffic. The route follows a designated NYC bicycle route, from Dyckman Street in northwest Manhattan to Van Cortlandt Park at the intersection of Broadway and West 242nd Street. Bicyclists travel next to vehicle...
Riding the Hutchinson River Greenway near Co-op City
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Riding Soundview Park River Trail
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#the bronx #bronx #biking Soundview Park in the Bronx has an extensive net work of trails along the east bank of the Bronx River where it joins the East River into Long Island Sound.
West Farms Park to Bronx Art Center
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New Section of Bronx Greenway along the Bronx River near West Farms leading to the Bronx River Art Center has opened. #bronx #thebronx #biking
Gravel Bike Run at Ferry Point Park, Bronx
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Gravel Bike Run at Ferry Point Park, Bronx
The New Ferry Point Landing - Bronx, NY
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The New Ferry Point Landing - Bronx, NY
Mushrooms in Winter : Turkey Tail, False Turkey Tail, Violet Toothed Polypore
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Mushrooms in Winter : Turkey Tail, False Turkey Tail, Violet Toothed Polypore
Shorehaven Esplanade - East River, Bronx NY
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Shorehaven Esplanade - East River, Bronx NY
Spring Tide at Hunter Island - Orchard Beach - Bronx, New York
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Spring Tide at Hunter Island - Orchard Beach - Bronx, New York
From City Island to Execution Lighthouse - Bronx, NY
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From City Island to Execution Lighthouse - Bronx, NY
Ferry Point Waterfront Park - Bronx, New York #thebronx
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Ferry Point Waterfront Park - Bronx, New York #thebronx
Indian Prayer Rock - Pelham Bay Park - Bronx New York
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Indian Prayer Rock - Pelham Bay Park - Bronx New York
Einstein Jacobi Medical Center - Bronx New York
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Einstein Jacobi Medical Center - Bronx New York
Fort Schuyler - SUNY Maritime Academy - Bronx New York
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Fort Schuyler - SUNY Maritime Academy - Bronx New York
A beautiful boat ride - the movement is graceful, the water is calm, the birds are at peace and all is right with an entire world hidden from our urban view. Thank you for letting me ride along with you.
It’s kind of look like Pelham Parkway
You deleted my comment because I speak facts...
Go there in person and the see the real way with all the ghetto people that act up.
amazing
Great video my favorite place to walk
Don't let what it looks/seems like today fool you. They called it Shantytown as the houses were half tent, half house, it became a full-time, cheap place to live during and after the Depression. In the 40's they used to pump raw sewage right into the sound, right there. In the 70's and '80s, they called it 'Sledgewater', the most filthy, disgusting ghetto where people mostly owned their own dilapidated homes, which didn't say much for an all-white neighborhood where everybody lived literal feet from one another and grew up together their whole lives. A place where the people loved to turn you into the co-op for absolutely no reason just to make themselves feel good, they even came up with different colored discriminatory stickers they made you put in your car's window so they would know if you were a renter or a 'shareholder'. Before it became a co-op, Edgewater was completely land rent owned by the Shaw family who owned it all before people started living there full time. This means you owned the house you lived in but paid monthly rent to the park for the land under your house but you did not own the land, Shaw had a 99-year lease with the residents until it went co-op. Thereafter any new residents who bought a house had no choice but to buy into the co-op. It was a place where you could never have anything nice, if the local scumbag punks kids couldn't steal it they would come in the middle of the night and vandalize or damage it any way they could, if it wasn't locked down they would steal it. Alcoholism and hardcore drug use were rampant in Edgewater notably among its youth especially down in the parking lot by the old trailer grocery and candy stores, also up by Sweeney's grocery, more than normal would a resident youth overdose and sometimes die right in the street or on the beach of Edgewater Park. Arson, burglary, car theft, breaking into cars, assaults, even murder. They would steal things right out of residents' yards was a popular pastime for the youth of Edgewater Park in the '70s, 80s, 90's right up to the early 2000s, and it still goes on as those then youth never left and now have children of their own. Numerous abandoned houses, the parking garages, the old boatyard, and an untold number of car fires were set ablaze by resident youths, some of whom I can testify to were even members of the park's volunteer firehouse. There used to be a big main community building located right behind the bus stop that had a grocery store, bakery, hardware store, post office, and others that was set on fire by certain residents back in the 1970s. Even co-op board members sons liked to vandalize things inside the park like blowing up the bus shelter glass panels with fireworks, among many other things. Edgewater Park was a place where neighbors were envious of one another, a place where people who didn't even know anything about you, never even spoken to once in their life had bad things to say about you because they went on what others they heard say about you behind your back. Edgewater Park is/was a place where the people who knew you all their lives would get personal satisfaction from hearing that you were in a bad way, this was because they in their own lives were so miserable that they wanted to bring you down with them and make your life more miserable than theirs was, that's what living in Edgewater Park was all about...
As a kid in the early 60s I'd walk along the bronx river to the allerton baseball fields, french charlies and frisch field from pelham parkway , for me the river was a place of serenity in the middle of the the powerful bronx of apartment bldgs and el train lines.
Many bodies were dumped there.
It's a nice quiet area. With its own private beaches make Edgewater Park Owners/Coop a great place in the Bronx to live. A place where day or night you never hear the city sounds, with the exception of the highway breathing.
“Stink Creek” The last three bridges are the “newest”
@Bike the BRONX 9465==All commenters=PLEASE let those """PATROLLING GUYS""" keep the area under """CLOSE WATCH""" as those neighbors have the OLD WAYS about them and PRESERVE THIER TOWNSHIP!!!! I walk from MARINA DEL RAY (southern tip THROGGS NECK) all the way up to PELHAM BAY PARK once monthly and NOT a scrap of refuse/bottles/debri along EVERY BLOCK all tru SAINT RAYMONDS CEMETERY*CAMPBELL DRIVE*COUNTRY CLUB ROAD*TREMONT AVENUE*PROVIDENCE REST HOME*VILLA MARIA ACADEMY*LORETTAS PIZZA☆ (have to pitch in LORETTAS on DEAN AVENUE!!!) So lets keep the ENTIRE THROGGS NECK (2G,s) as if it is STILL 1960☆☆☆☆
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Love the video...I did a canoe run with Hutchinson River Restoration Project years ago. I was a co-founder in the beginning concentrating on cleanups and sharing info.
China life??? Have fun...
Majestic
The more you know
Not lying I just did my research
The toxins pulled from this Garbage mound are put into tanks and transported to the Sewage treatment plant then they are released into the East River by DEP?
In which area in Pelham bay park could I get there I was there yesterday with my girlfriend and I couldn’t find that location area which is the river
My father, George Mortensen, was in the class of '38. He would go on to have a storied maritime career and is an honored graduate. but it all started here. I grew up just across the water on the Point. Great memories and a great institution.
Hate the bridge. It changed everything and not for the best.
I remember driving by as a kid while it was still active. The smell was unbearable. I still have visions of it with thousands of seagulls hovering over it waiting to eat. Its no wonder there is such a high concentration of cancer victims in our neighborhood.
I'm waiting for the day they let us up top. At least then we'd have a little something to show for all the bull...
@@bikethebronx9465 after it closed and they secured it i rode my dirtbike to the top as a teen. I did a lot of stupid shit back then. lol. earyl 80s.
Maybe you can upload screenshots with gps locations into google maps. There is very little there now. It will show up as little blue dots on maps if you have 360 pictures.
did they pray to these ghosts in the landscape! Wow!! that is pure poetry thank you Bike!
Hope all is going well for you. It's been a long time!
Memories thank you for recording this same path I use to take 16 yrs ago .
16 years is a long time. Some say you can never go back, but heck, now even bikes can have batteries. Here's hoping your well enough to try!
I think howerton shaved his hair for the movie, i remember him having weird looks for the always sunny podcast unless he wore a baldcap for that
Thanks for the video. I grew up in Throggs Neck and spend 4 wonderful years at Maritime in the 80's. Wouldnt have traded it for any other school.
Because practically when you work, the only thing you do is go to sleep on your property and maybe one day a year you receive a person
But what are the policies of that site because I am interested in buying a house there because the prices are very cheap and compared to all the prices you can live because you just go
Back? They never left lol kinda famous for that
I didn’t know the Northside was open. Thanks
The only river in NYC!
False, Hudson River, Harlem river.
The only one false here is you. I said the Bronx River is the only river in New York City, which is factually true. The Hudson is not 'in' New York City. It's within the borders of New York State, and it also borders the state of New Jersey. And even though it's referred to as the Harlem 'River', it's not a river at all. It's actually a tidal strait. I'm surprised you didn't (incorrectly) include the East 'River', which also is not a river. It's a saltwater tidal estuary.
@@joenewman7474- Thank you for the clarification. I love NYC and all it's beautiful waterways. I am planning a trip soon to Bronxville, where I hope to see any flowing water and or nature. The video was awesome (I don't ride, so it was fun), and the music was lovely. Many thanks to all !
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Wow I am amazed. I live not too far, and I didn’t know that until a little while ago. Robert Moses is who I heard who put the landfill there. Absolutely terrible, it used to be a beach.
Honestly, this landfill has proven a tragedy. I often bike by it and when the wind is still you can still smell the rotting garbage. I'm sure this is partially why its never been open to the public.
Thank You! I've always wondered what that was like
William! hope all is well and that you might be able to get yourself over that bridge some sunny day this summer. All the best!
Split Rock Road, a suburban vestige of which still exists in Pelham Manor, used to run in front of the rock and through the golf club ; that part still exists as a golf cart trail. Before being cut and the rock isolated, it was a quiet picnic spot overlooking the Bronx to which my father used to go (consruction on the thruway began in the mid-1950s).
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Excellent video, are there trail’s for walking to Orchard Beach?
Walking to Orchard Beach from where? If you mean from Pelham Bay Park to Orchard Beach, then yes...the bike route shown is used by many to hike or walk. There are also quite a few woodland walking and hiking trails in and around both locations, so I say go for it!
@@bikethebronx9465 GRACIAS 🙏 I truly appreciate it 👍
Great video. I remember passing by the Hutchinson River numerous times on the highways and local streets and recall even more industry and barge traffic. Definitely agree that the River should remain an industrial thoroughfare balanced by major cleanup and better public access and creation of well maintained parks.
Glad you liked it. There's a lot of history on that river, and a fair share of beauty as well.
Didn't know Hart Island was used as a mass grave. Great visuals !
Nice...... you went right past my marina at the Gas dock. ua-cam.com/video/9VcSFWGV8ec/v-deo.html
At least your destination was a pleasant place to ride. The bridge is interesting enough but the traffic is tough on upper Bdwy.
I show the nitty gritty because we are trying to make changes and improvements. It's hard to get the city to pay attention.
I literally got hit yesterday trying to bike to my local library 🔥 fractured leg and broken arm
Sorry to hear it. I got hit once and broke my clavicle. It's like the Wild West out there, and not getting any better!
Thank you for uploading this! I take the bridge sometimes to explore the area. I love Van Cortland Park and should visit there soon. Citi Bike stations are nearby (I don't own a bike right now).
Glad you could use the information. Van Cortlandt is a great place to bike. Broadway not so much as you can see!
wow...when did they do this? I heard about a plan for some changes, but it sounded like in the distant future. It's one way bike lane so does that mean there is path on the other side of the Parkway now too? It pretty wide too. Widest bike lane in NYC lol.
Honestly not sure. I failed to follow a left turn bike sign at the intersection so I lost the trail. It does go over to the other side, but its true extent will have to wait for a future post
Bx ny?
Yes indeed!
It’s spelled Throggs Neck Bridge, NOT Throgs Neck Bridge
You got me! All native Neckers agree: One g for you but two g's for me!
I worked up there a bit and loved the commute. That park is special for its natural habitat.
My two favorite things!
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I’m watching UA-cam videos on my so-called smart TV. Interesting that this popped up as a suggestion. Tomorrow, October 29, 2022, is Maritime College’s homecoming Day. I’m Class of 1971, and considering getting up early enough to make the trek from eastern Long Island.
Hop you come and enjoy the day. The Fort is really a magnificent place!
@@bikethebronx9465 LoL! I spent from August 1967 to August 1971 as a Cadet. It is indeed a scenic campus, and the museum in the Fort is well worth a visit!
How could you own land that was occupied by other people? There were people living here before the British, Spaniards, and French. Why are the Indians always the bad ones? I guess if you are conquered you are right, Right.
This is my ancestral land for my tribe. I am so annoyed my grandfather is the reason this Rock exist and your comment is 100% true the British the French and mostly the Dutch stole our land