At offMetro.com, we’re all about helping you explore NYC’s other boroughs and enjoy getaways beyond the city. You know where to find the best places to get off the beaten path and, to celebrate Bike Month, we thought we’d help you get there. That’s why we’re teaming up with Google Places and Ride Brooklyn to give you a new mode of transport for sharing your opinion before May 20th about all
Today officially marks the beginning of Bike Month, but this past weekend’s New Amsterdam Bike Show seemed to summon half the city’s cyclists for an early celebration of two-wheeled travel. At the event benefiting Transportation Alternatives, handlebar mustaches and leather-bound handlebars mingled over a glass of Grolsch in the beer garden, tweed-clad models walked the bike fashion show runway, and leisure riders and road racers salivated over the coolest products—from the Vanmoof
Standing on a street corner in Brooklyn, Erin Barnes, co-founder and executive director of ioby.org, a crowdfunding start-up for environmental and urban renewal projects, is addressing a question about what motivates her busy early mornings that seem gaga, even by New York standards. “The environmental movement has been focused on wilderness for a long time, and I am really excited about the fact that it is starting to focus on
Before the NYC Bike Share rolls out its unprecedented 10,000 bikes and 600 stations this summer, safeguarding the future of urban biking in New York City, out-of-practice pedalers can get a jump start spinning outside the gym with the help of some inspiring bike events—including one sanctioned by the church—happening around town this spring. 1. New York Green Festival’s Bike Tour | greenfestivals.org When: April 21, 12pm-3pm Where: Meet at the
On one of those winter days posing as spring, I meet Fast Company‘s senior editor Jason Feifer in Brooklyn Bridge Park. His wife is teaching a class at home around the corner in Brooklyn Heights, so he has time to kill—something that doesn’t come naturally to Jason. (“Fair warning,” he wrote to me. “I’m a New Yorker who doesn’t really like to slow down.”) Yet someone who is this busy—he
While gas prices were peaking at an average $4.28 per gallon in 2011, offManhattan writers and readers were busy taking to the rails, bus lanes, and bike paths around NYC in pursuit of affordable, eco-conscious adventure. We left familiar streets, with their steaming manholes, occupy protesters, and taunting nut carts and set out to see how much we could see without a car. After hundreds of getaways from the city,
The first annual Food Truck Rally at Grand Army Plaza is this Sunday, May 22. Brooklyn Craft Central’s 3rd annual Spring Craft Market under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass is this Saturday, May 21. For their 5th birthday, 3rd ward is hosting a free bike-themed BBQ bash on Saturday in Brooklyn. Brooklyn Flea’s Smorgasburg unites over 100 food vendors on May 21 on the Williamsburg waterfront. On Saturday, Sycamore Bar +
