Great news for recreation in Williamsburg! Over the past few weeks crews have been busy developing the Brooklyn Greenway along the waterfront on Kent Avenue. Don’t know much about the Greenway and why this is exciting for joggers, walkers and cyclists? Here’s a little background from the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative’s website: In 1993, the Brooklyn [...]
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26 Aug
Some Thoughts on Central Park
If you can believe it, last night I took the subway to Central Park to run someplace different for a change of scene. Wait a minute – change of scene? Isn’t this where all New Yorkers go to run? Sometimes it seems that way. But if you’ve read my other posts, you probably know that [...]
6 Aug
Picturesque and Grim: Running around Green-Wood
If you are looking for an alternative to running the 3.35-mile loop in Prospect Park, Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn is one option that is very close by. The perimeter of Green-Wood is a decent 3.5 mile run that can be run on its own, or add it onto your Prospect Park run to go for [...]
26 Jul
LIC Detour: The NEW Gantry Plaza State Park
For my long run today I decided to include a loop of Roosevelt Island and on my way back to Brooklyn I realized how close I was to the brand new expansion of the Gantry Plaza State Park along the waterfront in Long Island City in Queens. Since I was already running south on Vernon [...]
14 Jul
Running Roosevelt Island
Roosevelt Island is that two mile long sliver of land, only 800 feet at its widest, that many of us have seen only while riding in a cab down the FDR Drive in Manhattan or while crossing the Queensboro Bridge. But with flat, paved paths running nearly the entire perimeter of the island, cool breezes [...]
23 Jun
Industrial Charm: A Greenpoint-Williamsburg Run
The Greenpoint-Williamsburg area is a vibrant neighborhood that has a lot of exciting development going on. It isn’t an automatic go-to for most runners in New York, but since it has less traffic than most other areas of the city it can make for a very enjoyable run and is a welcome break from the obvious [...]
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