Outdoor Recreation

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Here Are Some Insane Coachella Campsites

The Coachella campgrounds are the Wild West of the festival. They are the sort of place you can imagine Hunter S. Thompson running around with his pants around his ankles. Drugs are more plentiful than food and going to bed before 4 a.m. is considered an early night. Campers built incredible structu ... More >>

Getting Drunk in the Rain in the Catskills

Saranac India Pale Ale from Matt Brewing Company in Utica, New York Style: American IPA Serving style: Bottle Location: Little Pond Campground in the Catskills, which is somewhere upstate outside of the city. Don't ask me to explain it more than that. Cost: A fellow camper brought it, and I swip ... More >>

Department of Transportation Hits Back At John Liu's Bike Share Criticism (UPDATE)

Yesterday, the Voice brought you news that Comptroller John Liu vehemently slammed Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration and the Department of Transportation, claiming that City Hall had not done enough to promote safety with New York's forthcoming bike share program. "Recent studies have found ... More >>

EASY RIDERS

It's time to dust off that bike

Surveilling Muslim Groups Is Necessary to Protect Free Press, Bloomberg Tells Reporters

Reporters repeatedly grilled Mayor Mike Bloomberg this morning about recent reports of the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslim student groups at campuses throughout the Northeast. Bloomberg shot back at them that the NYPD policies are there to protect freedoms such as the free pres ... More >>

NYPD Spied On Muslim College Students All Across the Northeast

Last year, the Village Voice reported on the NYPD's "spectacularly offensive smear of American Muslims" in the form of a full-length Islamophobic training video. Now the AP comes forward with their investigative report that details how the NYPD watched Muslim students at colleges all across the Nort ... More >>

Love Your Lane Valentine's Ride & After Party

SADDLE UP

Take a free riding lesson

Brooklyn Treehouse Is Basically the Shit

People who dislike treehouses are clearly not to be trusted.​While we are somewhat irritated with the title of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith's classic and wonderful coming-of-age novel, being co-opted for anything imaginable related to Brooklyn, we have to say that Alexandra Meyn's Bro ... More >>

Ken Jackson, Columbia University Professor, Teaches NYC History on All-Night Bike Ride

For 37 years, Columbia University historian Ken Jackson has taught a session of his class, "The History of the City of New York," in an unforgettable fashion -- namely, on an all-night bike ride, which comes with the special added benefit of ensuring that none of the students fall asleep while being ... More >>

Cyclists Injure 500 People Yearly in New York City; Cars Injure 70,000

via​According to a new study from two Hunter College professors, approximately 1,000 pedestrians are hit by cyclists and sustain injuries severe enough for hospitalization yearly in New York state. About half of those -- 500 -- are in New York City. In reporting these stats, CBS mentions the c ... More >>

NYPD Patrol Car Cruises Williamsburg Bridge Bike Lane

In the ongoing debate over bike lanes -- and who's either blocking them to cyclists or not using them properly as cyclists -- comes this video of a NYPD patrol car driving slowly and apparently leisurely along the Williamsburg Bridge bike path, which is ostensibly only for people who are either ridi ... More >>

'Mister Sunday Presents Space Dimension Controller'

Hopstop: Now Helping You Count Calories, Ride Your Bike

​Hooray for Hopstop, the go-to spot for finding out how to get to wherever you want to go in the New York City area, and elsewhere, too. Just the other day we were calculating how to get to a wedding in Brooklyn (thank you, God, for weddings in Brooklyn) and all of a sudden, after which trains ... More >>

Most New Yorkers Like Bike Lanes, But Does Anyone Use Them?

​Despite some very bitter and ugly public battles, a majority of New Yorkers approve of bike lanes, according to a poll released this week. The Quinnipiac University poll found that 56 percent of city voters say bike lanes "are good because it's greener and healthier for people to ride." The b ... More >>

NYPD Now Giving Tickets For Biking on the Wrong Part of the Street

Photo by Alex Goldmark​A blogger for Transportation Nation witnessed two cyclists being pulled over and ticketed in Manhattan for biking not on the sidewalk, but on the street -- just not in the available bike lane. According to the Department of Transportation, "you have the right to ride in ... More >>

Prospect Park Still Doesn't Want Your Damn Bike Lanes

Brooklyn Downtown Star​Listen, Prospect Park. The generous, benevolent Department of Transportation has bestowed upon you a big, green bike lane to keep you safe from all of those scary, lycra-clad cyclists. Big Brother (i.e., the city) says it keeps your babies safe and your Subarus dent-free, so ... More >>

Selling a Yacht Sounds Like a Chore

​Want to hear a good joke? "What is tougher than having one sleek mega-yacht for sale in a glutted market?" Wait for it. "The answer, for the moment at least, is having two mega-yachts on the market." Get it? But really, that's the beginning of an article in the New York Times, which reads lik ... More >>

Bike Wars: Angry Fascist Motorists Strike Back

​Discord is brewing in the streets of New York. Or so the New York Times would have you believe, with its piece today on the latest urban conflict that plagues the people of our fair city: bike lanes. Last week, cyclists on Staten Island were mourning the loss of a local bike lane, which they ... More >>

Staten Islanders Want Their Bike Lanes Back

​Cyclists on Staten Island are getting worked up over a decision by the city Department of Transportation to strip away the bike lanes along Capodanno Boulevard in favor of a bus lane and a parking and turning lane. City officials, including a city councilman, the transportation commissioner, ... More >>

How to Use a Bike Lane and Not Be an Utter and Complete Shithead: A Handy Primer

The Village Voice: Not blocking the bike lane.​Oh, bike lanes. They are complex. It's so hard to know, for instance, where they stop and start, and how to actually use them. New Yorkers are accustomed to things being difficult, and maybe these new bike lanes are just so easy that our giant bra ... More >>

READING THE WATER

Take a kayak on the East River

Cycling Advocates Say Not So Fast with the Cycling Stats

​Recent reports stating that bike ridership has reached 200,000-plus daily cyclists in New York City (more than any other U.S. city) have now come under fire. Cycling advocates are protesting that biking is not nearly as popular as all that -- yet.

New York Parks Officials Increase Fees on Fun

​It's gonna be nice out this weekend, folks. Real nice. And we deserve it. The forecast for us at Voice HQ is in the 60s and sunny. Perfect for pillow fights, patio pinochle, and ... park-going, obviously.

Is the Brooklyn-Bred "Purist" Bike Culture Officially "Over" Now?

​The intensely devoted single-speed and fixed-gear bike culture of Williamsburg has long been a source of fascination for people unbearably attracted to fashionably scruffy, trim, roguish-looking people, as well as the rest of the people who ride bikes in New York, and of course, exploitative ... More >>

'Top Chef': Campire Ceviche and Other Misguided Efforts

Bravo​Ah, the wonder of the great outdoors. There's nothing like it for exposing people's more shadowy idiosyncrasies: Some of us hate tents. Some of us like to practice voodoo. And some of us are happiest throwing horseshoes. It was, in all, a somewhat revealing week for our Top Chef contesta ... More >>

Staten Islanders Displeased with Bike Lanes

People complain about bike lanes elsewhere in the city, too, but Staten Island seems to have more trouble with them than most. The Staten Island Advance tells us that new bike lanes are planned for the borough even as "half of the paint forming the Bay Street [bike] route has worn away" because of t ... More >>

Bike Propaganda Contest Offer $4,000 Prize, Film Fest

The drive by responsible cycling advocates to get us all to stop at stop lights, wear helmets, and generally bike like Urkel has reached the propaganda phase. Transportation Alternatives has launched a Biking Rules Public Service Announcement and Photo Competition. Make and submit videos and photos ... More >>

Bloomberg to Bikers: Screw You!

With all the pale green bike lanes going in across town, you might think we have a bicycle-friendly mayor. Nothing could be further from the truth. The bike lanes are really his method of hectoring motorists by eliminating car-traffic lanes--as are the pedestrian malls at Times Square and Heral ... More >>

INTO THE WOODS

Gather 'round the campfire with robbinschilds

Cycling Study, Bike Rules Website Hasten the End of the Urban Outlaw Biker

Where's your helmet, buddy? They're after us cyclists again! The recent crackdown on biker traffic violations in Brooklyn was just the thin end of the wedge: now Hunter College has released a study of midtown Manhattan bicyclist behavior, showing -- brace yourself -- that bikers are lax about fol ... More >>

DEAD PREZ RIDE

Before you pig out, feed the brain

What Does it Take To Turn NYC Bike Friendly?

Design Competition Seeks to Make Red Hook Bike-Friendly

Who's Sabotaging Bikers on the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges?

Dead Fuckin' Last in the Alleycat

NY [heart] Critical Mass?

New Standoff Over Critical Mass as Another Bike Group Sues to Block Parade Regs

Belles on Wheels

The Ditty Bops bike tour finally ends, 4,500 jittery and often moonlit miles later

On the Hard

They're buying up every inch of this island and building condos

Transit Strike Is a Bike Rider's Dream

Schlepping to a New You

At least the strike makes New York skinny

Listings

Collision Course

Drop in Enforcement Leaves Kayaks Vulnerable to Jet Skis

Take a Bike!

Ditch the Subway. Keep the Cab Fare. Miss the Bus. Try a Two-Wheeled Commute for a Change.

Get Rolling!

A Bike Week Calendar

Mind Body Spirit: Walk on the Mild Side

Enjoy the outdoors, preserve trails, visit historic sites, and relax!

Breaking Camp

Action Adventure, Behavior Modification, No Lanyards

Scare Yourself Shiftless

In a 24-Hour mountain bike race, life begins at 4 a.m.