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The 5 Boro Bike Tour is this Sunday. Eagle file photo by Lore Croghan

TD Five Boro Bike Tour: Where to watch it in Brooklyn

Brooklyn’s streets will be filled with thousands of bicyclists this Sunday as the world’s most popular bike ride, the TD Five Boro Bike Tour is back at full strength. Delayed and limited to 20,000 participants last year due to COVID-19, this year the sold-out event includes more than 32,000 cyclists, who will bike 40 miles across all five boroughs. The

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Generally Speaking: 32,000 bikers pass through here!

Approximately 32,000 pedal pushers took part in the 37th annual Five Boro Bike Tour on Sunday, May 4, making the 40-mile trek from lower Manhattan to Staten Island.

While the bikers passed through Sunset Park, Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights, it wasn’t through our local streets, but high up on …

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Generally Speaking: 32,000 bikers pass through here!

Approximately 32,000 pedal pushers took part in the 37th annual Five Boro Bike Tour on Sunday, May 4, making the 40-mile trek from lower Manhattan to Staten Island.

While the bikers passed through Sunset Park, Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights, it wasn’t through our local streets, but high up on …

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The wheels go ‘round and ‘round

Cyclists from around the city took part in the annual Five Boro Bike Tour on Sunday, May 5.

About 32,000 cyclists rode for 40 miles around the city. Here in Bay Ridge, riders pedaled down the Gowanus Expressway and over the Verrazano Bridge, to Staten Island where the race terminated.

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Five Boro Bike Tour Closures

On Sunday, May 6th the Staten Island-bound lower level of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge will be closed to traffic between 12:01 a.m. and 6 p.m. for the annual TD Bank Five Boro Bike Tour. The Brooklyn-bound lower level of the bridge will also close at 12:01 a.m., and two of three lanes will reopen …

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GENERALLY SPEAKING: Week of April 26

Five Boro Bike Tour bypasses us

This year, America’s largest bicycle event, featuring over 32,000 cyclists, won’t be stopping in or passing through Bay Ridge streets.

For the past decade and a half, the cyclists would exit from the Belt Parkway near the Verrazano Br …

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