Bicycle Routes in New York City

Ride the City is a website that helps you find safer bike routes in cities, avoiding highways and busy arterial streets, and tries to steer cyclists toward routes that maximize the use of bike lanes, bike paths, greenways, and other bike-friendly streets Go to www.ridethecity.com/

Recommended reading for cycling in New England

The 2010 NYC Cycling Map was designed by in-agency Bicycle Program staff at the NYC Department of City Planning and the Department of Transportation: Cycling maps are available for free at the NYC Department of City Planning bookstore at 22 Reade Street, NY, NY, 10007, in bicycle shops, libraries, and schools. They can also be obtained by calling the New York City Call Center at 311. The map is available in PDF format as one complete map (4.1 MB); the Front (1.9 MB) includes all of the Bronx and Manhattan and portions of Queens and Brooklyn Back (1.6 MB) includes portions of Queens and Brooklyn and all of Staten Island .