Clarkton 'buddies' bike together in NYC
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Don Baldwin, who grew up in Clarkton but now lives in Culpepper, Virginia, rode in his third Boro tour and was joined by three old friends who still live in Clarkton-Maurice Rivenbark, Bud McAulay and Mitchell Edwards. Baldwin had ridden in the New York City event in 2001 and 2002. It was the first time for the three Clarkton friends.
The NYC Great Five Boro Bike Tour is held the first Sunday in May each year. It's route is 42 miles through all five New York City boroughs-Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island. The Tour attracts 30,000 cyclists, and is America's largest bike tour.
The Clarkton group biked down Broadway to the start of the Tour from their hotel near Times Square. The four biked a total of 50 miles during the day.
The tour starts in Lower Manhattan's Battery Park and goes up Sixth Avenue (the Avenue of the Americas), through Central Park, Harlem, and into the Bronx. It then comes back to Manhattan on FDR Drive before crossing the East River into Queens via the Queensborough Bridge.
Brooklyn was the fourth borough on the tour as the cyclists took the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway to the Verranzano-Narrows Bridge. The 13,700 foot suspension bridge at the mouth of the Hudson River is crossed on the lower deck.
Once over the bridge, the tour was in Staten Island, the fifth borough. The Tour Festival is held just over the bridge and is near the ending point for the tour. The Staten Island Ferry took bikers back to Lower Manhattan.
The Clarkton friends had a busy four days in New York City. On Friday, they went to the New York Yankee-Kansas City Royal baseball game; on Saturday, the musical, "Chicago;" on Sunday, the bike tour; and on Monday, to the Live with Regis and Kelly television show.
The time in between was spent walking and taking the subway to several of Manhattan's tourist attractions, including Times Square, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Trump Tower, the United Nations, the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Wall Street and Ground Zero.
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