The Ultimate NYC Bike Tour: Cycle Big Apple’s Top Sites in One Day
Challenging Ride | $159 (Includes bike, helmet, snack) | 6+ Hours | Available as Private Tour
Advanced Bike Tour
Includes bike and helmet
Approximately 6 hours
Approximately 25 miles (40K)
Begins: Varies
Ends: Varies
Sample Route
- From Central Park to Brooklyn Bridge to Ground Zero, we’ll see it all on the Ultimate NYC Bike Tour!
- This is not a tour for beginner or nervous cyclists. This an all-day adventure for confident, urban cyclists. My Brooklyn Bridge Bike Tour is short and sweet and perfect for casual cyclists, and a great family activity.
- We’ll cover around 25 miles (40 km) over 6 hours.
- The pace will be brisk, but not back-breaking.
- We’ll stick to designated bike lanes where available, but please understand that we can’t stay in bike lanes exclusively.
- You’ll see so many of NYC’s most iconic spots including Grand Central Terminal, the UN, the Fifth Avenue Library, the Flatiron Building, East River, Brooklyn Heights and much more.
- We’ll take many breaks where you can get off the bikes and walk around.
- I will lead you to the photo ops that will make your Instagram feed POP!
- I’ll keep you safe and with a local guide you’ll waste no time getting lost. I’ll also keep you entertained and provide history, context and local color.
- We’ll break for a swift and inexpensive lunch during the day. I suggest pizza in Little Italy or Chinatown, but am open to your suggestions.
- By the end of the day, you’ll feel the burn, but you’ll also be ready to feast in one of NYC’s many great restaurants—guilt free, you earned it!
The Ultimate NYC Bike Tour is a tour de force of all the Big Apple greatest hits.
This is a suggested itinerary for the Ultimate NYC Bike tour
This itinerary can be adjusted to omit things you’ve seen, or will see later on the trip, and to add other things that are of interest to you. What to stop by Mood Fabrics, of Project Runway fame? Done! Wanna take a picture in front of the Friends’ Apartment building? I’ll take you there. Consider me your personal Big Apple Concierge.
Central Park
We’ll see the the Mall, Bethesda Terrace and Fountain, Strawberry Fields, Sheep’s Meadow, and many places familiar from TV and films, like Elf and Home Alone 2.
Times Square
Enjoy the lights of Broadway and history of this historic crossroads of the world.
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Enjoy the soaring arches of this world famous Cathedral, dedicated in 1910.
Rockefeller Center
Marvel at the art deco and modernist towers, enjoy views of the statutes while taking in tales of history of David Rockefeller Jr.’s vision for a modern New York City.
New York Public Library
The flagship building in the New York Public Library system, built in 1911 is a beaux arts marvel and the site of Carrie and Big’s first (and aborted) wedding on Sex and The City.
Grand Central Terminal
This Gilded Age station is famous world over for its grandeur and 67 tracks that make it the largest station in the world. This legacy of New York’s legendary Vanderbilt family was gorgeously restored in 1990s.
Washington Square Park
The heart of Greenwich Village, this park has long been a hub for politics and culture in New York City. Everyone from Henry James debutants to Allen Ginsberg and Jimi Hendrix has left their mark on this iconic spot.
Chinatown
As many as 388,000 New Yorkers today where born in China, and Chinatown, with its charming lanterns strewn across it’s narrow alleys plays a huge role in welcoming these immigrants into the city. I know a fantastic place to stop for lunch.
Brooklyn Bridge
The Ultimate NYC Bike tour will transverse this 137 year old icon of NYC, as seen in movies from Frank Sinatra’s On the Town to Sex and the City. Enjoy breathtaking vistas of the Wall Street skyline and New York harbor. We’ll pause to take lots of pics!
Dumbo
This post-industrial area was once a hotbed of factories and warehouses. Now it’s trendy shows, chic restaurants, and gorgeous park land. City Hall Park
Wall Street
See Wall Street, the New York Stock Exchange and snap your selfie with Arturo Di Modica’s iconic “Charging Bull” statute.
Battery Park
NYC’s oldest park sits on the southern most tip of Manhattan island and provides your best view of the Statute of Liberty and houses Castle Clinton National Monument, built in 1808.
World Trade Center site
We’ll see the resculpted “Ground Zero,” site, now home to a 400 tree oak orchard, two memorial pools, the 9/11 Memorial Museum, WTC 1 tower, a performing arts center and master architect Santiago Calatrava’s Oculus transportation and retail hub.
Hudson River Park
Hudson River Park stretches 4.5 miles (7.2 km) and comprises 550 acres (220 ha), making it the second-largest park in Manhattan. Enjoy Hudson River views of New Jersey and endless lawns, gardens and recreation spaces as we make our way north.
Hudson Yards
We’ll see the Vessel at the newly built Hudson Yards. This collection of soaring new glass towers have added more than 10 million square feet of office, housing and retail to New York City in just the last 2 years.
The Ultimate NYC Bike tour usally begins and end in Midtown Manhattan, but if guests are staying downtown, or Brooklyn we can begin in City Hall neighborhood.
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