{"id":9239,"date":"2009-12-31T19:08:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T23:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=9239"},"modified":"2013-04-28T12:08:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T16:08:28","slug":"most-popular-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/9239\/most-popular-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"offManhattan&#8217;s Top 10 Most Popular Stories of 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>offManhattan has been traveling in the green lane since 2007, but 2009 really rocked our sense of adventure-via-public transit. From homebase in Manhattan, we got to explore and see more than we could ever have imagined without a car. We rode Segways in the Hudson Valley and horses in the Bronx, pedaled through Long Island vineyards and did a five-borough bike race, crossed New Hope in a vintage train and took a veggie-fueled bus to Vermont.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to taking you on even greater excursions outside Manhattan in 2010. See our 2009 top 10 list after the break.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<a title=\"NYC Go Karting\" href=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/2009\/01\/17\/go-karting-near-new-york-city\/\">Go Karting Near New York City<\/a><br \/>\n2.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<a title=\"Breakneck Ridge Hiking\" href=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/2009\/04\/28\/hiking-breakneck-ridge-hudson-highlands\/\">Hiking Breakneck Ridge<\/a><br \/>\n3.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<a title=\"Brooklyn Graffiti\" href=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/2008\/12\/08\/a-self-guided-brooklyn-graffiti-tour\/\">A Self-Guided Brooklyn Graffiti Tour<\/a><br \/>\n4.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<a title=\"Bars With Manhattan Skyline Views\" href=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/2009\/02\/25\/hotel-bars-with-manhattan-skyline-views\/\">Hotel Bars with Manhattan Skyline Views<\/a><br \/>\n5.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<a title=\"NYC Skiing and Snowboarding\" href=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/2007\/12\/13\/mini-guide-to-skiing-snowboarding\/\">Mini Guide to Skiing and Snowboarding<\/a><br \/>\n6.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<a title=\"Astoria Greek Tour\" href=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/2009\/02\/02\/greek-tour-astoria-queens-nyc\/\">My Big Fat Greek Tour of Astoria<\/a><br \/>\n7.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<a title=\"Beaches Near NYC\" href=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/2009\/07\/14\/beaches-near-nyc-without-a-car\/\">Beaches Near NYC Without a Car<\/a><br \/>\n8.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<a title=\"Brighton Beach Russia\" href=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/2008\/04\/13\/brighton-beach-a-voyage-to-russia\/\">Brighton Beach a Voyage to Russia<\/a><br \/>\n9.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<a title=\"Cold Spring NY\" href=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/2008\/03\/21\/north-of-manhattan-a-cache-of-olde-world-charm\/\">North of Manhattan, a Cache of Old World Charm<\/a><br \/>\n10.\u00a0 <a title=\"Rock Climbing in the Gunks\" href=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/2008\/05\/15\/rock-climbing-in-the-gunks\/\">Rock Climbing in the Gunks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>offManhattan has been traveling in the green lane since 2007, but 2009 really rocked our sense of adventure-via-public transit. From homebase in Manhattan, we got to explore and see more than we could ever have imagined without a car. We rode Segways in the Hudson Valley and horses in the Bronx, pedaled through Long Island [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[766,325,271],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-archive","8":"category-new-york","9":"category-news"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":14895,"thumbnail_uri":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC_0099-300x200.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}