{"id":733,"date":"2023-05-05T14:52:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T19:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/?p=733"},"modified":"2023-06-19T13:33:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T18:33:23","slug":"new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/2023\/05\/05\/new-york-city\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The goal for today was to get to New York City, Times Square in particular. The first 31 miles were in suburban New Jersey, a lot of it along NJ 27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I wouldn’t describe NJ 27 as a place to go for a pleasurable bike ride, but overall it was better than expected. About half had a shoulder and of the remaining half about half of that had light traffic so everyone was able to get around. Of the remainder, I was alert with my mirror but traffic was well behaved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The picture above was around the 20 mile mark where this shop was a nice spot for a banana and an avocado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A few industrial areas such as this plant brought me to my first goal – the Goethals Bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The bridge had a nice walkway which brought me across to Staten Island <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The bridge was also the dividing line between New Jersey and New York. Staten Island itself was also reasonable to cycle – streets occasionally busy and going too far south made them hilly. Without much difficulty I found my way to the ferry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was a little more fun to figure out where to board. Bikes go on the lower deck. There is a nice area above for others but I was eventually directed downstairs in the garage to wait for the next ferry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ferry itself had a bike rack up front. About five bikes were on board. Not all of them are in the rack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Windows are hazy, but had to get a photo of the Statue of Liberty as we went past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the other end we were dropped off in Battery Park. It was hectic starting out but eventually made my way to the bike path on the right side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, I didn’t enable my bike computer on the Manhattan part. It was still giving me instructions of where to turn and I know route distance was 4.72 but not in Strava.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Walked a block or two past my hotel to the Times Square area. This is the intersection that has the Times Square subway stop. I’ll wander around a bit more without the bike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My hotel room is the almost lowest price I could find (with much better ratings than the lowest). Small but fits the bike and me and that is what is needed. Happy to get to Manhattan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Strava for today<\/a> recorded 38.42+4.72+0.35=43.49 miles, 3:57:14 elapsed, 9.7 average with 1033 ft of climb. I expect more climbing along the Connecticut coast… Now it’s time to explore NYC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The goal for today was to get to New York City, Times Square in particular. The first 31 miles were in suburban New Jersey, a lot of it along NJ 27. Now I wouldn’t describe NJ 27 as a place …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-jersey","category-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1534,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/1534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}