Bicycle Sundays begin this weekend in Westchester

The 49th annual Bicycle Sundays season will kick off this coming Sunday in Westchester County.

During this annual event, bicyclists, skaters, joggers and walkers will take over 6.5 miles of the Bronx River Parkway from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The program will continue every Sunday in May, June and September, except for the Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends.

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More than 60,000 county residents and visitors take part each year, enjoying the curves and wooded scenery that make the nation's first parkway a national historic landmark.

The program is presented by Westchester County Parks and sponsored by the Westchester Parks Foundation and its partners, through generous donations from co-presenting sponsors Con Edison and New York-Presbyterian Westchester. Jen's Cycles in Yonkers is the official bicycle sponsor.

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