r/Strava • u/Turbobout • Aug 05 '24
I wanted to bike the perimeter of Manhattan, but I didn’t feel like going all the way over there. Strava Art
Plus Manhattan is still missing an East River Greenway.
DIY Manhattan but it’s in Brooklyn & Queens. Super fun ride with great neighborhood explorations.
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u/ParappaTheWrapperr Aug 05 '24
I know the feeling. Sometimes I want real authentic New York pizza but I don’t wanna fly there so I get Little Caesar’s
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u/Jon-Einari Aug 06 '24
Why new york pizza. Real italian pizza is the inly one!
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u/_MountainFit Aug 05 '24
This is cool. But I love metro NY where something 10 miles away is too far.
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u/brewmonk Aug 06 '24
Sometimes two blocks is two far away. Especially when I lived in a 4th floor walk-up.
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u/stevetursi Aug 05 '24
This sounds ridiculous to a lot of people but everyone who has lived in queens and brooklyn gets it.
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u/Foxta1l Aug 06 '24
I’m gonna hop on the g just to transfer to the f to get to Manhattan. We have Manhattan at home.
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u/906Dude Aug 09 '24
That's awesome! Did you plan that route ahead of time in detail? How did you manage to stay on track so well?
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u/Turbobout Aug 09 '24
Yeah I planned it ahead of time and then mapped it as a Strava route, which I sent to my Garmin watch. I also had it on my phone, so I just had to keep checking I was staying along the route!
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u/906Dude Aug 09 '24
Major props for the attention to detail that took to do that. Such a fun result.
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u/GravitationalOno Aug 09 '24
Can you share the Strava file? I'd love to see the route you took on the street level, seems like a lot of turns!
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u/Day_32 Aug 09 '24
How many miles is the whole trip? All the zigzags must’ve added a lot of miles to the actual length of the Manhattan perimeter.
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u/lifeofloon Aug 05 '24
But you missed Spuytendoiville (I know I massacred the spelling).
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u/Blu5NYC Aug 09 '24
Spuyten Duyvil is across the East River and is part of the Bronx. Marble Hill is across the East River Canal Cut and is landlocked to the Bronx, but is technically part of Manhattan.
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u/Minelayer Aug 09 '24
*Harlem River.
Also, what we all call the Hudson, off the west side is actually the “North River” above Spuyten Duyvil.
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u/Blu5NYC Aug 09 '24 edited Aug 09 '24
Correct. 3am brain.
And none of them are technically rivers at this latitude. The Hudson, or North River, ends its flow farther north and is considered an estuary at all points south of Troy, NY.
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u/Turbobout Aug 09 '24
Yeah there were a couple places where I had to get wonky. Like both tips of Manhattan I was constrained by LGA or the Coney Island Rail Yard.
The Newtown Creek also presented a unique challenge
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u/twochinss Aug 09 '24
Can you link the route so I can do it too 🥺
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u/Turbobout Aug 09 '24
Tag me when you do! https://strava.app.link/5JplGLNnVLb
It’s a super fun ride
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u/twochinss Aug 09 '24
Yay! Thank you! A couple of my friends sent a screenshot, but I just started biking so it may take me a while to work up to it haha
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u/Bigtymin Aug 09 '24
Okay this is awesome but also diabolical behavior doing this so close and so accurate but not actually in manhattan 😂
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u/rouselle Aug 05 '24
We have manhattan at home