Well I did! From the Broadway Bridge, down Broadway, to Battery Park. About 13 miles. 2:21, but that includes stops for red lights and a couple of bio-breaks.
I had never really been north of Central Park North, so wanted to see that part of the city. I was amazed at how hilly it was, and have resolved to revisit to visit the Cloisters.
Mindless, pointless, stuff I must share! 
Those muggers NEVER give up, do they?
Haha.
That sounds awesome though, D18! I love The Cloisters, haven’t been up there in far too long.
I’d like to bike the length of Manhattan. There’s a bike trail on the west side that goes from The Cloisters down to Goldman Sachs (200 West St at the top of the financial district). It wouldn’t be the entire** length, but it would be close to it.
Love it !!! In…roughly… 1947, my 18 year old father walked the length. Went to the top of Fort Tryon park at the water, turned around and walked to the Battery.
He was in great shape, loved the walk. But admitted that he was beat enough that he did NOT walk back uphill to get home. He took the subway.
Indeed, Sugar Hill in Harlem isn’t just a nickname. There are respectable hills in the upper west quadrant of Manhattan.
Tempting one day to bike it !
Hey, that’s NYC Classic. New NYC doesn’t have that sort of thing!
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Yes, I had it in my head that I was going to run the length of Broadway, but as I was looking to the West, I figured a path along the Hudson would have been much more interesting. So if I ever do it again, I’ll take that route.
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Little Miss D18 wants to do that with me (walking, I mean), so that will be an adventure for another day!
Sounds like a great run! Your thread reminds me, I can’t wait for things to warm up so I can start getting ready for the next half-marathon. It won’t be as interesting a course as Manhattan though.
Okay, okay… so, were you in the street or was the cabbie on the sidewalk? 
New NYC??
He’s right. The NYC of taggers, muggers and trash is sooooo 1970s-80s.
I ran (well, climbed) up NYC this morning. There’s another opportunity to do the same tomorrow at Rockefeller Center
Oooooooh. THAT new NYC. The one that’s color-blind, safe and accepting of all differences.
Here, a cool compress and pint of Stella will put you right as rain !!
Speaking of taggers, a brilliant fillmmaker named Manny Kirschheimer made a beautiful film in the early 1980’s about subway tagging and graffitti art called Stations Of The Elevated.
That city… the city of my film school youth. The city of performance art and strewn about needles…
On the outside, eh, Spidey?
Indeed. Instead of porn theatres, there’s Disney; instead of Urban Cowboy, there’s the Smurfs, and the murder rate is only about twice that of Toronto!
'Zakly !
I did that once, back in the '70s. I’m a pretty fast walker, but it seemed to take forever. I could never do that again . . . too many age-related problems now.
But NYC Classic didn’t do jogging. You ran the length of Manhattan in a speeding Pontiac like The French Connection or The Seven Ups.
Hey, NY Classic also had no aspertame !!!
I’ve done this a few times – it’s a pretty well marked trail if you want to continue on from there to Battery Park, and the streets are not busy (or weren’t when I biked them, always on weekend afternoons). The East Side version is a little more ragged – there’s no river trail from around 38th Street to the 60s, and again from 120th Street to I forget where in Harlem River Park. When I had an odometer, I think I clocked the trip from a park in Fort Lee, over the GWB, around the river paths, and back at a little under 40 miles. It’s mostly completely flat.
The city will send you an update bike map for free if you call 311.
Jah. My dearly beloved and I biked from 23rd & Bway over to the wonderful and new West Side Hwy bike lanes. Turned left, went a bit. Did some free Kayaking in the Hudson ( !! ), kept on to the Battery. Rode the Staten Island Ferry, came back, kept biking to East 23rd and the river. I must say, once you hit the Lower East Side the trail is a mess. Broken asphalt or you’re riding on wide sidewalks, etc. It’s a not surprising but sad mirror of how the city distributes funding for infrastructure all over. UWS to Battery? Chi-chi areas for most of the ride. Down through Chinatown/ Lower East Side/ Far east side? Not so chi-chi and so the funding isn’t provided to upgrade the bike areas.
We turned on E23rd and went back to Broadway and subway’ed home so I cannot attest to the quality of the trails north of there.
ETA: Dunno what would be more amusing: A shirt that reads " Doper Bikers" or a shirt that reads " Biker Dopers" 
I thought he meant the home of MomCorp, Planet Express, and Fishy Joes Ride the Walrus.