Riverside Park Closes Off Another Bike Path Section

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — The Riverside Park Conservancy recently announced that bikers have to deal with another path closure within the Upper West Side park.

The closure comes with a new detour that reroutes bikers to ride directly next to the Hudson River at 72nd Street instead of the usual path into a different section of the park.

The Riverside Park Conservancy released a graphic to show how bikers need to travel onto the waterfront between West 72nd and 76th Street to make room for a New York City Park reconstruction project.

IMPORTANT DETOUR INFO: starting today, bikes are temporarily re-routed onto waterfront b/t 72nd – 76th Streets for a @NYCParks reconstruction project (expected to take appx 1 month). Cyclists may share the waterfront w/ pedestrians up to 76th then reconnect to the usual Greenway pic.twitter.com/9uVmvrbzxA
— Riverside Park Conservancy (@RiversideParkNY) October 1, 2020

The construction is expected to last around a month.

The news of the latest detour in Riverside Park comes two weeks after the Upper West Side park announced that it was temporarily shutting down a section of the incredibly busy Cherry Walk bike bath.

That closure is from West 100th to West 125th Street, and is expected to reopen sometime in October.

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