Have a car-free and care-free Saturday with Summer Streets and Governors Island. Starting THIS SATURDAY (August 7)- from 7am – 1 pm and for the next two Saturdays ( August 14 and 21) nearly 7 miles of city streets are yours for playing, running, walking, biking and just enjoying! We’ve got: Free bike and skate [...]
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Bike and Roll, in partnership with Rolling Orange Bikes, a new bike shop in Brooklyn that favors slow bikes, is renting Fietsfabriek Cargobikes (yes, they’re Dutch, we’re so predictable here). The models for rent are tricycles with a box in the front big enough to carry a small child or a month’s worth of groceries. You [...]
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Bike and Roll’s Early Bird Special is back! When you sign out a regular-price rental bike between 10 AM and 12 PM on Saturday and Sunday (July and 18), your second bike rental is half-price. It’s a great deal for those of us who can’t skip out of work for Free Bike Friday.
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The early bird gets the bike! Bike and Roll is offering an “early bird” special this weekend and next weekend. When you sign out a regular-price rental bike between 10 AM and 12 PM on Saturday and Sunday (July 10, 11, 17 and 18), your second bike rental is half-price. Getting to Governors Island early not only [...]
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We’re bursting with pride over the #2 ranking that National Geographic Traveler just gave to New York City for it’s bike-friendliness. The article is not online, but you can read all about it – and Governors Island’s contribution- on the New York Times’ travel blog. With five miles of car-free biking, Bike and Roll’s Free [...]
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Today’s New York Times Thursday Styles section has a gorgeous spread of tweed-wearing dandies in tintype photos shot on Governors Island a few weeks back. The accompanying article details the trend toward an Victorian aesthetic. In a related note, we’d like to know when the Tweed Ride to Governors Island is happening. Obviously the Island’s closed now, [...]
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Google has finally put us on the map! Earlier this summer, the Google Street View car paid a visit to Governors Island (see below). Now, a small but stunning portion of the Island is visible in Google Street View. For those of you who have yet to experience the wonder that is Street View, it’s a [...]
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You’ve been meaning to get out to Governors Island all summer. You read the New York Magazine piece early in the season. You tore out the Time Out New York guide and hung it on your fridge. You even made it most of the way though the New Yorker article. Maybe you subscribed to our [...]
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It’s that time of year again! From 7am to 1pm for the next three Saturdays, The New York City Department of Transportation is transforming 7-miles of city streets into a car-free playground called Summer Streets (our personal favorite is riding over and through the Grand Central Station viaduct). In the tradition of The Bronx River Parkway’s Bicycle Sundays , cyclists [...]
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Bike and Roll is bringing more bikes to Governors Island, due to popular demand. The additional 50 bikes brings our fleet up to a solid 250 bicycles for the public to enjoy. If you’re free tomorrow you should hop on a ferry over to the Island and grab a set of wheels–they are free to [...]
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