How a bike ride changed Board 10 leader’s life
BAY RIDGE — Lori Willis first fell in love with Bay Ridge when she was taking part in the 5-Boro Bike Tour and stopped in John Paul Jones Park, one of the citywide tour’s rest stops.
“It was beautiful. I was looking around and I thought what a great place this must be to live,” she said, recalling the lovely recreation area tucked away under the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.
Willis, a native of Long Island, got back on her bike and continued the tour on that day. But she returned to Bay Ridge a few years later, this time to live. She has been living in the community for 20 years. And now, she is helping to set the neighborhood’s agenda as the new chairperson of Community Board 10.