Weekend Getaway: Take a Tour of the New Mario Cuomo Bridge Bike Path with Streetfilms

By Gersh Kuntzman
Jun 19, 2020

What a view. Photo: Clarence Eckerson Jr.

Our news team covered the opening of the new bike path on the Mario Cuomo bridge connecting Tarrytown and Nyack when it opened officially on Monday, but nobody brings you inside the metropolitan region’s most important bike infrastructure like Clarence Eckerson Jr. of Streetfilms.

Take it away, Clarence!

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Ride the New Pulaski Bridge Bikeway With Streetfilms

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Streetfilms: Bike Rush Hour on Portland’s Hawthorne Bridge

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Lucia Deng on the High Bridge. Photo: Clarence Eckerson Jr.

Meet the #BikeNYC All-Stars: Today, @LuciaDLite of The Bronx

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