Tour de Brooklyn 2007

by Clarence Eckerson, Jr. on June 4, 2007 | 8,516 Plays

This year's 3rd annual Tour de Brooklyn was a special treat as New York City DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan rode the entire event with over 2,000 enthusiastic cyclists.

The excursion covered 18 miles and started in Grand Army Plaza, headed down 4th Avenue to Bay Ridge, then stopped in Dyker Heights for a respite before returning back to Prospect Park. As always with the TdB, the emphasis is on friends, family, and fun.

Clarence Eckerson, Jr. has been making fantastical transportation media in NYC since the late 1990s. He's never had a driver's license and never will.

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Posted in Bicycles. Tagged as 2007, Bicycling, Brooklyn, Janette Sadik-Khan.

Darla

That's groovy!!
Bill

Who runs this event?! Brooklyn is great but its going to lose some ground when all those riders without helmets suffer head injuries!!
megan and zac

we were there and it was amazing! we even spotted ourselves in this short. thank you for posting this beautiful video.
Nick

Bill, I noticed that too. However, the number of people not wearing helmets is a testament to how safe they all felt in the absence of cars. See this post on Streetsblog for more on the psychology of helmet wearing.
Kerry

It was an AWESOME tour...I hit a flat and one of the helpers helped me change my tube!!! PIT CREW PIT CREW PIT CREW record time! yea!!!

hehe planning to do it again next year

NUMBER 1!!!

PIT CREW PIT CREW PIT CREW

lol
rachael

we do this once a month. it's a lovely ride called brooklyn critical mass. everyone should come out this friday and do it again. 7:00 grand army plaza or williamsburg bridge.
brooklyn triker

That was a lovely ride and a lovely video. It felt like a legal critical mass with a quadrillion people.
http://jensrasmussen.info Jens Rasmussen

Thanks for capturing the spirit of the day!
Lani

Wonderful. I love StreetFilms.
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