Morning in the Park – whoa – it’s an obstacle course.  The lower loop on the West Side – 72^nd street south past Tavern on the Green – be careful - go slow - lots of bleachers being set up for the marathon, finish line being built, painting on the roadway, people, lots and lots of people.   Then, for significant stretches of the entire roadway in the Park, a lane is closed filled with debris from Saturday’s storm.  At the bottom of the hill nearby Lasker Pool was that familiar family of raccoons.  Runners all over getting ready for the big day Sunday.   My group started at 6:00 AM in the dark of night.  3 laps later, it was still pitch black out.  Then, on the Upper East Side, there

The Park drive was interrupted -- so that cyclists had to get off the drive altogether and circle around -- at three places. One is at the former Tavern on the Green site (for the Marathon) and the other two are in connection with tree pruning, either on account of the storm or for the marathon. They are currently at the south-east corner of the park drive and a little further north on the east side of the drive, aboiut 65th street.

Is River Road open?

SUNDAY 11/6, B16/17+/75, Social Climbers #7 "The Orchards of Concklin”

START: Meet 9:15 AM in Fort Lee - Note the start of Daylights Savings Time.

FINISH: 5PM at George Washington Bridge

LEADERS: Ellen Jaffe, Neile Weissman - B16, Fred Harris - B17+

WHAT: An excursion up to the historic Orchards of Concklin to pick up some seasonal treats, then down the Hudson past Nyack Beach back to the GWB.

http://www.theorchardsofconcklin.com/html/home.html

TERRAIN: One climb up South Mountain Road and another at the Palisades.  Rolling otherwise.  Couple miles hardback.

BRING: Liquids.  Layers.  Tubes.  Lights -- the sun sets before 5PM

Does anyone have an update on 9W or 501? I'm thinking of riding tomorrow, supposed to be 57 and sunny. (And if anyone wants to join me, send me a message).

That about says it: when I click on this I get a screen that says "page not found".

Does anyone know what the road conditions are in terms of ice/debris?

just not sure of debris situation, esp in the dark....

It's amazing what a snow belt Englewood is.  I noticed last winter how they always had more snow piled up than just west of the town.  I decided to take 501 to Piermont today, as I feared 9W would have little, if any, shoulder to ride on.  I was correct.  However, the sides streets we usually take to get to East Clinton (Summit, Lyncrest, Lydecker, Pershing, etc.) were SLAMMED.  There were thousands of branches down, hundreds of old trees, and several power lines as well.  I have to hand it to the Tenafly township, though; there were STOP signs up where the main traffic lights were not powered, and all in all it was an okay ride.  Piermont, as Jay said in a separate post, was fine.  It was GETTING to Piermont that was the issue. 

Being in the news business, which tends to be a bit depressing, I've recently taken to scanning our AP offerings for what I'm calling "Happy News" to post through Facebook and Twitter. Today my selection involves bikes and kids, which makes it extra happy and also, I think, worthy of posting here.