Navy Yard Entrance Opens, With Bike Lane!
The new entrance to The Brooklyn Navy Yard at Sands Street and Navy Street opened this morning. While this is big news on its own, it’s extra exciting for bicyclists. The Navy Yard has been a very bike-friendly place in recent years so it should be no surprise the new road inside the Yard contains…
The new entrance to The Brooklyn Navy Yard at Sands Street and Navy Street opened this morning. While this is big news on its own, it’s extra exciting for bicyclists. The Navy Yard has been a very bike-friendly place in recent years so it should be no surprise the new road inside the Yard contains a shared bike lane that will become a formal lane when the road is expanded in coming months. Another nice touch: The bike lane inside the Yard connects up with the recently-installed bike lane that runs down the middle of Sands Street from the Manhattan Bridge. Well done! Now we’ll just have to wait for the gate houses to be fully restored.
Wait a second. Brooklyn has a navy?
I’m a tour guide at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and there are more than 5,000 people that work in the Yard – many of whom ride their bicycles to work. The Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation, the Brooklyn Historical Society, & the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative partnered up this year to offer bicycle tours for Open House New York in the hopes that there will be more next year. If you’d like to learn more, touch base with the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation (www.brooklynnavyyard.org) or the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative (www.brooklyngreenway.org). Since tours were mentioned in a previous post, I thought I’d also follow up on how you can go on them. While we don’t have any more bicycle tours this fall, we will be offering one last bus tour this year on Sunday, November 22nd. Visit http://www.urbanoyster.com for more info.
How many people who work in the Navy Yard ride a bike to work? 2?
I am imagining a long convoy of Hassidim bicycling in to the Navy Yard every day. Ha! That needs to be in a Cohn Brothers movie.
got it, jsocrates comment wasn’t there when i posted, thanks for the correction. Perhaps this info should be in article itself.
Umm… like jsocrates said, it’s VERY bike-friendly for folks that work there. And a lot of people work there. Not that tough of a concept.
Not open to the public, difficult to consider that “bike friendly”
The Navy Yard has become increasingly bike-friendly for the many people who work in the yard every day. While these bike lanes are not open to the public, they are still very important for people who work there.
“The Navy Yard has been a very bike-friendly place in recent years”
again, what do you mean. besides the organized tours you have to pay for, since when can you just ride around the navy yard? i tried to get in once and was turned away by the guards.
i’m confused- there is a bike lane through the navy yard that anyone can use? i thought you needed an ID card to get in there?