Positively Staten Island: Bicycling: A Beginning - 0 views
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When I was younger, like many, I dreamed of flying. In my mind, I would start to run. As my legs stretched, more ground started passing beneath my leaps until I was running upon nothing at all, just sweeping my legs back and forth, tiptoeing over the treetops at the speed of sound. In waking life, the sensation is replicated as I turn my bicycle onto Bay Street every day during my morning commute.
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I have ridden a bicycle through the streets of Manhattan for three years, commuting from Staten Island to Midtown since 2009 (and previously, from Brooklyn). I began my two-wheeled ways in Kirksville, a rural community in northeast Missouri, where some back roads were not even gravel but dirt. It wasn't always necessary to look both ways for traffic; traffic was almost too sparse for precaution. I found my chipped, rusty yellow Schwinn abandoned in the backyard of a deserted house, overgrown with brush and wildflowers, and pedaled it to class to avoid an astronomically pricey campus parking pass.
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A large number of Bike Commuters and recreational riders exist on Staten Island, and are largely ignored in favor of our car society, which has been created by our lack of adequate public transportation. But with recent events, and the ongoing green initiatives, we will be bringing you any and all Bicycling information there is for Staten Island.
