• Enjoy cycling on the Cross Island Parkway as part of the official race course!

• Go past Laguardia Airport and Shea Stadium. Stay on Grand Central Parkway till Exit 23/Alley Park. Follow signs to Winchester Blvd.
• Make left turn on Winchester and then an immediate left again and pass through metal barrier leading up ramp to upper Alley Park parking lot.

From Grand Central Parkway/Eastern Long Island:

• Exit the Grand Central Pkwy at Exit 24 on to Little Neck Parkway/SOUTH.
• Proceed on Little Neck Parkway to Union Turnpike (approx. 5 blocks). 
• Turn right on Union Turnpike and make a right on to Winchester Blvd. (you will cross over the Cross Island Parkway and Winchester Boulevard will be your first right).
• Go past Creedmore Psychiatric Center (on Winchester Blvd) and make left under Grand Central overpass, pass through metal barrier and up ramp to the transition area.

From Whitestone Bridge/Westchester/Connecticut:

• Follow signs to Cross Island Parkway/Eastern Long Island.
• South on Cross Island Pkwy to Exit 28/Union Turnpike.
• Make left at traffic light on to Union Turnpike to first traffic light at the corner of Winchester Blvd.
• Right on Winchester Blvd. and pass lower Alley Park (opposite Creedmore hospital).
• Make left under Grand Central overpass, pass through metal barrier and up ramp to the transition area.

From Staten Island/New Jersey:

• Cross Verrazanno Bridge and get on Belt Parkway.
• Go past Kennedy Airport. Stay on Belt Pkwy until Cross Island Pkwy-North.
• Pass Belmont Racetrack and get off Cross Island Pkwy at Union Turnpike.
• Turn left at traffic light on Union Turnpike.
• Go one block to first traffic light at the corner of Winchester Blvd. Right on Winchester Blvd. and pass lower Alley Park (opposite Creedmore hospital).
• Make left under highway - pass metal barrier and make left up ramp to transition area.

Subway:

• E or F Train to stop closest to Kew Gardens/Union Tpke stop (on Queens Blvd.).
• Find Union Turnpike and bike to Winchester Blvd. (4-5 miles), which is one block past 237th Street.
• Make left on Winchester Blvd. and follow signs to Alley Park (see above).

• Race Day entries accepted.

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