Bring your sturdy bike, thick soled shoes, and a spirit of adventure.  We are heading to Dead Horse Bay, the home of the infamous Bottle Beach.  Dead Horse Bay’s name was coined in the  the mid-19th century when the area was was home to dozens of horse-rendering plants, which used the harbor as a dumping ground for horse bones.  Located on the southwest shore of what was then Barren Island, the isolated area was infamous for its lack of water and sewage lines, and for the odor perpetually wafting in from the nearby factories, which later included fish oil plants, waste refineries, and a... more

We’ll ride from GAP to our lunch stop, Jordan’s Lobster Dock, via the Verrazano Bike Path, then along the Coney Island boardwalk to Sheepshead Bay. After lunch, we’re off to the Rockaways and a ride along the boardwalk. We conclude our ride at the Rockaway ferry for a scenic trip back to Brooklyn (Sunset Park at 58th Street and 2nd Avenue) or Manhattan (Pier 11). Bring money for lunch or a lunch, $3.50 for the ferry, a light lock, and your beverage of choice to stay hydrated.

It's Groundhog's Day - and we will all find out how many more weeks left in winter.  One thing is certain - the days are short and the weather is cold. Which can only mean that it is time for our annual cold weather ramble to Ramblersville.   In what has become a Winter Tradition, we head to the wilds of Queens and spend some quality time at a great hobo beach on Jamaica Bay.  One of the most isolated neighborhoods in New York City, Ramblersville is a one block wide strip of land between Old Howard Beach and JFK.  Houses are built on stilts in this marshy spit of land.  We cross one of the... more

On a cold Winter day, going to a warm place to address your inner animal, is perfect. Between the indoors and outdoors, they have fish, snakes, birds, monkeys, alligators, turtles, bats. deer, horses and more. Oh yeah, ground hogs. Lunch is pizza as fine as Arthur Ave. So, get some exercise, a little education, a slice and camaraderie. Leaders: Ed DeFreitas & Allan Friedman Meet at City Hall (Base of the Brooklyn Bridge) at 10:00, South Ferry at 10:15 and St. George at 11:00. Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo. I do believe it, I do believe it's true. It's a light and tumble... more

Celebrate all the romance of this special holiday on a special ride to a special place. Yes that's right nothing says I love you like White Castle on Valentine's Day, treat youself to a slider or two or give yourself some love by the sack! White Castle takes reservations and has table service on this speial day so register early so we can have a proper headcount for a reservation. Ride wiill leave Columbus Circle and head to white Castle at 103rd in El Barrio. On the way back will explore the murals of the 100 Gates Project before heading back to Columbus Circle.Please bring a very cheap (... more

How could we not have a ride from Columbus Circle on Columbus Day? But where to go?

New Rochelle has some amazing history - too vast to cover in one ride.

I have stumbled upon a treasure trove of history and will share it with you on this and future rides I plan to lead that explore this great town (where I happen to live these days) - one of the original "suburbs". So original, in fact, that while Carl Reiner lived here writing and performing on Sid Caesar's show of shows in the 50's, it became the prototype for The Dick Van Dyke show, which Carl wrote, and where Rob and... more

This is the annual Cherry Blossom ride, initiated in the 1970s by Irv Weisman, to enjoy the increasing number of blossoms in Branch Brook Park, Newark and Belleville, NJ.  This park has more cherry trees than in Washington, DC and they add more every year.  Bring your camera.

We will enjoy the blossoms for a while then head off for Bloomfield or Montclair, eating in a diner. 

Meet at the bottom of the escalators at the World Trade Center PATH station at the ticket machines. (Lower level of the Occulus)

Cancellation conditions:  Snowy or icy.  Radar showing imminent or... more

This is the annual Cherry Blossom ride, initiated in the 1970s by Irv Weisman, to enjoy the increasing number of blossoms in Branch Brook Park, Newark and Belleville, NJ.  This park has more cherry trees than in Washington, DC and they add more every year.  Bring your camera.

We will enjoy the blossoms for a while then head off for Bloomfield or Montclair, eating in a diner. 

Meet at the bottom of the escalators at the World Trade Center PATH station at the ticket machines. (Lower level of the Occulus)

Cancellation conditions:  Snowy or icy.  Radar showing imminent or... more

Ah, Memorial Day Weekend is finally here and what better way to celebrate than to hit the back roads of coastal Connecticut. Our destination: Thimble Islands, one of the majestic wonders of the world, and only a heartbeat away from New Haven, where beforehand we'll breakfast at Clare's Cornercopia, a venerable culinary landmark in its own right feeding generations of hungry Yale undergraduates.  (Those on a leaner diet can simply carb up at the nearby Dunkin' Donuts.) Some of the sights along the way include: the West Haven Lighthouse, a Victorian carousel, a defunct trolley rail trail... more