Tour de Brooklyn 2008
Always a diverse funfest of people, the 4th Annual Tour de Brooklyn from Transportation Alternatives was no different this year with over 2,000 joining the cycling fun. This year's event was moved a week early to coincide with the anniversary of the Brooklyn Bridge's 125th birthday and launched from DUMBO. Among the highlights of the jaunt was a ride thru the Evergreen Cemetery and a very rare visit behind the gates of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
If you haven't seen, we also have the 2006 & 2007 TdBk campaigns up on the site as well as monster coverage of many Bike Month events here and here. Happy Riding!
[...] 2,000 cyclists enjoyed a picture perfect Tour de Brooklyn on Saturday. Of course, Streetfilms' Clarence Eckerson was in the thick of it:This year’s event [...]
that came out good!
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Fabulous! I loved the music.
Great film great ride
thanks to all TA and Clarence.
Ed
Bravo to Clarence for a video as moving as the Tour de Brooklyn itself. All of the pledges of allegiance happy birthday wishes to the Brooklyn Bridge in its 125th year were truly inspirational. Here's hoping that the Tours de Queens and Bronx and the TA Century are just as powerful as this one was!
I had a great time riding through some places in Brooklyn that were completely unfamiliar to me - the inside of the Navy Yard, the cemetery - and especially Bushwick, which had some great streets of houses with people sitting on stoops, some lively street life around the park, but also a depressing number of blocks where no trees grow.
Streetsblog, it would be great to hear more about this. How many of PlaNYC's million trees are being planted in Bushwick? It looks like a neighborhood the city has forgotten.