up-to-date, 10:29 a.m.
first rate morning on this blustery Monday.
It's Bike to Work Week.
accept as true with this: 86,000 or so New Yorkers already travel on two wheels daily, dodging groggy pedestrians and pushy taxi drivers.
Daunting, we be aware of. but our city has at all times given riders a push.
Brooklyn installed the nation's first bike lane in 1894. There are actually more than 1,000 miles of bike lanes in the metropolis, ample to experience f rom right here to Tampa, Fla., as the crow flies.
And over 15 greater miles of blanketed lanes are on the manner this yr.
For first-time bike commuters, here are some suggestions:
• To steer clear of a sweat stain to your back, put your bag in a pannier or basket.
• For the directionally challenged: Use the bike option in Google Maps on your smartphone and ride with one earbud in (however only one; two is illegal). Or use the metropolis's bike map.
• This week, brake for freebies like helmets, bike restoration and driving courses, as well as coffee, snacks and kit at commuter stations across the metropolis.
• For the timid, a couple of defense tips.
Eben Weiss, the creator of the weblog Bike Snob NYC, offered some information for the metropolis: Institute a power to Work Week.
"That means, people can see how wildly impractical it is to force to work in comparison to biking."
Smug remarks apart, he observed, "riding in the metropolis is freedom from site visitors, timetables and transit delays."
And with more and more crowded subways, there's a different perk to biking: You'll all the time get a seat.
Do you shuttle by way of bike, or will you this week? tell us what it's like in the feedback, or tweet us with the hashtag #nytoday.
right here's what else is happening:
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today should be clear, vivid and breezy with a excessive near 63.
Wind gusts of up to 33 miles an hour may whip through the metropolis throughout the day.
It's a west wind. So in case you're commuting by means of bike to manhattan from Brooklyn or Queens, you'll need to pedal a little tougher this morning.
The respectable information: The wind might be at your lower back for your journey home.
within the news• President Obama took several jabs at Donald J. Trump right through a commencement tackle at Rutgers university, in what can be the s tarting of a forceful effort to opt for a Democrat to the White condominium. [New York Times]
• Ken Thompson, Brooklyn's first black district legal professional, has been criticized by using liberal activists for his managing of Akai Gurley's fatal capturing by means of the police. [New York Times]
• in case you overlooked it, a new York times investigation uncovered one of the most reviews of the greater than a million individuals buried in mass graves on Hart Island. [New York Times]
• The Police branch is beginning a weeklong initiative specializing in drivers who put bicyclists in danger. [NBC New York]
• A Montauk mechanic is suing the city of East Hampton over the forcible clearing of his cluttered yard. [New York Times]
• Ramón J. Jiménez, a legal professional within the South Bronx who dedicated his life to aiding individuals in want, died at 67. [New York Times]
• Scoreboard: Yankees tear via White Sox, 7-5. Rockies strand Mets, four-three. ny metropolis F.C. hack through Timbers, 2-1. Liberty break away from Mystics, 87-seventy six, of their season opener.
• For a worldwide analyze what's going on, see Your Monday Briefing.
coming up today• be part of a exercise category set to Broadway reveal tunes at Pier 2 in Brooklyn Bridge Park in Brooklyn Heights. 10 a.m. [Free]
• A screening of Steven Spielberg's "Bridge of Spies" is on the Pelham Bay Library within the Bronx. 1 p.m. [Free]
• young adults can meet and study owls, on the Dongan Hills Library on Staten Island. 4 p.m. [Free]
• A discussion about design and architecture in new york metropolis, that includes a panel of consultants, is on th e Strand in long island. 7 p.m. [To attend, buy the book "Twenty Over Eighty," for $35, or a $20 gift card]
• The comedian Colin Quinn performs at the Comedy Cellar. 7 p.m. [$5 and two-item minimum.]
• Yankees at Diamondbacks, 9:forty p.m. (yes).
• For extra events, see The long island instances's Arts & entertainment book.
go back and forthE, F, M R, J and 7 trains are working with delays.
• Subway and course
• Railroads: L.I.R.R., Metro-North, N.J. Transit, Amtrak
• Roads: verify site visitors map or radio report on the 1s or the 8s.
• Alternate-aspect parking: in impact unless can also 30.
• Ferries: Staten Island Ferry, manhattan Waterway, East River Ferry
• Airports: La Guardia, J.F.okay., Newark
and at last...In below two weeks, President Obama could be the first sitting u.s. president to discuss with Hiroshima, Japan.
There, he'll cease through a memorial to the victims of the atomic bomb that become dropped on the metropolis during World struggle II.
right here in big apple, we have a reminder of that damaging second.
one of the most biggest Buddhist statues in the metropolis, a 15-foot-tall, 22-ton bronze determine, stands in front of the big apple Buddhist Church on Riverside power.
It in the beginning stood in Hiroshima, less than two miles from where the bomb turned into dropped. It remained largely intact.
It changed into dropped at new york in 1955, and, for years, rumors swirled that it changed into radioactive.
babies held their breath as they walked by.
these days, a plaque regional reads that the statue stands as "a testimonial to the atomic bomb devastation and a symbol of lasting hope for world peace."
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