Shelly likes to ride her bike and this hobby involves visits to different parks in Queens (so far). One Sunday, it was Cunningham Park. For several times over the summer, we headed over to Little Bay Park across from Fort Totten from where she rode the Joe Michaels Mile nestled along Little Neck Bay and the Cross Island Parkway. Alley Pond Park has been a dual site since the Vanderbilt Motor Parkway (called it the “bicycle path” (which inspired the name of this commentary) growing up because that it what my grandparents, Charlie and Minnie Bearak, called it when I visited them in their then Hollis Hills home on the north side of the “path” east of 220th Street.) runs through it. Several times access was from Alley Athletic where it ends. A few times, entry was further west near Cloverdale Boulevard from Alley Springfield. A few times she rode the bike lane on 210th Street/Oceania Street in Oakland Gardens, adjoining a northeastern most section of Cunningham Park. Close to home there are rides around the Glen Oaks Oval. More recent its been Flushing Meadows Corona Park near the Unisphere. The first foray, we parked north of the Queens Museum. Yesterday it was south of the Museum in the lot it shares with Queens Theatre.  As the weather cools, there may not be more riding days before the bike goes to "storage."

[Editor's note: Photo of the Unisphere show the the Museum and Theater in the background.]