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[WATCH] James May Races the New York Subway

2025-07-26T12:00:00-04:00

'There's nothing you can't do, now you're in New York' we were told. So we tried. I bet Lucy I could beat her from Battery Park to Central Park - me on a slightly rubbish rental bike, her on the infamous subway. 'These streets will make you feel brand new' we were told. That turned out not to be true. We both suffered...in different ways.

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[WATCH] New York City Bike Lane Bounty

2022-10-21T12:00:00-04:00

YouTuber CaseyNeistat recently published this great video talking about how a proposal for a New York City bike lane bounty might work.

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[WATCH] Thrilling Video Shows What Cycling as a Messenger is Like Through NYC

2021-09-21T12:00:00-04:00

Regular day of cycling in the city. Using a DJI osmo action camera. Next time I do something like this I'll use a wind screen.

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Sunday, August 8th, 2021, Good Afternoon!

2021-08-08T14:00:00-04:00

Good afternoon! Wishing you a happy Sunday, August 8th, 2021 from all of us at Viewing NYC!

Here's what the weather looks like in the City right now.

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[WATCH] Check Out This First-Person View of a Bike Ride From Brooklyn to Manhattan Over Brooklyn Bridge

2021-06-01T16:00:00-04:00

Bike tour from Downtown Brooklyn, across the Brooklyn Bridge, through lower midtown Manhattan to Battery Park.

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[WATCH] First-Person Bike Tour From Brooklyn Heights to Dumbo and Downtown Brooklyn

2021-05-03T12:00:00-04:00

Bike Tour Along the water from Brooklyn Heights, to DUMBO Brooklyn.

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[WATCH] Check Out This Thrilling First-Person View of a Bike Ride Down 7th Avenue

2021-04-20T16:00:00-04:00

From Central Park down 7th Avenue to SoHo Manhattan.

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[REPOST] Report Shows How Much Air Pollution You Inhale When Biking Around New York City

2020-08-05T16:00:00-04:00

From VICE News:

Air pollution now causes more than 4 million deaths a year. And it might be having a surprising impact on one group in particular: the 86,000 New Yorkers who commute by bike every day.

Equipped with a spandex biometric shirt and a vest holding two air quality monitors — one measuring black carbon, the other PM 2.5 — VICE News set off on a day of bike riding over New York City’s bridges, down its greenways and through its crowded rush-hour streets, to find out one thing: how much air pollution cyclists are actually inhaling.

We wanted to see what it was like to participate in “Biking and Breathing,” a Columbia University research project that aims to understand how air pollution affects cyclists’ health. Because cyclists are, on average, inhaling more air — they’re also breathing in more air pollution. The Columbia study is trying to figure out just how much more.

For the past three years, the researchers have collected data from more than 90 commuting cyclists over a period of six days. They’re measuring both air pollution as well as how much air a cyclist inhales, allowing them to estimate how much pollution reaches a cyclists’ lungs. They call this the “potential inhaled dose.”

“What really matters for health is dose, and dose is a function of two things. Number one how much air pollution is in the air. And number two how much you are breathing,” says Darby Jack, an assistant professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University.

New York City has made big strides since the 1960s, when its air was among the dirtiest in the country. But air pollution is still a leading environmental threat to the health of those in urban areas. And even low amounts of exposure to air pollution can have negative effects.

In New York, researchers aren’t trying to change the number of people commuting by bike. They ultimately hope that their findings will be used to help inform city policies on how to develop bike lanes on routes with less pollution or further away from cars.

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This New York City Bike Crew Gains Instagram Fame with Crazy Street Tricks

2020-06-25T16:00:00-04:00

In this recent video from NBC's great Left Field series, meet a Harlem-based bike crew that does crazy street tricks for instagram fame, sponsorships, for community, and for charity.

Meet the Cycle Squad Maniaccs: DBlocks, MoBlocks, Twisted700, and ArtBMX. They're a group of Harlem bike riders who pop wheelies and swerve inches away from incoming traffic. The squad is popular on Instagram and was even featured in an ASAP Ferg music video, although they can raise the ire of drivers and police with their gravity-defying stunts.

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[WATCH] First Person View of a Bike Ride Down the Staten Island Coast

2020-03-15T16:00:00-04:00

The Wall Street Journal recently made this interesting video showing a first person view of a bike ride down the Staten Island coast.

Take a virtual tour through Staten Island from the seat of a bike. From the St. George Ferry Terminal under the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge to the beaches of Staten Island's eastern shore, this 15-mile route offers hills, greenery, sand and surf.

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