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Mayor Completes 40-Mile Bike Tour, 32K Riders Fund Education

5/4/2026

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Summary

Mayor Biking Tour

Mayor Zohran Mamdani completed the 40-mile TD Five Boro Bike Tour on Sunday.
About 32,000 cyclists from all 50 states and 60 countries started at 7:30 a.m. in Lower Manhattan and finished on Staten Island around 11:15 a.m. after crossing the five boroughs and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.
Proceeds will fund free bicycle-education programs run by Bike New York and partners.

Summary

Mayor Biking

Drivers traveled the wrong way on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway near Wythe Avenue on Sunday, May 3 2026, to avoid bike-tour congestion.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who rode the 40-mile route, called ICE “cruel and inhumane” after a violent anti-ICE clash outside a Brooklyn hospital.
The anti-ICE protest turned violent, with police confronting demonstrators, highlighting heightened civic tension on the bike-tour day.

History

Historical Context

Since the 1970s, city leaders such as Mayor John Lindsay supported cycling, and the 1973 founding of Transportation Alternatives marked advocacy, paving the way for the Five Boro Bike Tour, a charity ride that funds Bike New York’s education centers. Today, Mayor Zohran Mamdani guides more than 32,000 cyclists across all five boroughs each first Sunday of May, echoing that push for mass-riding viability.

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Mayor Biking Tour

Mayor Zohran Mamdani completed the 40-mile TD Five Boro Bike Tour on Sunday.
About 32,000 cyclists from all 50 states and 60 countries started at 7:30 a.m. in Lower Manhattan and finished on Staten Island around 11:15 a.m. after crossing the five boroughs and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.
Proceeds will fund free bicycle-education programs run by Bike New York and partners.

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