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This department is conducted in the interest of Bicyclers, and the
Editor will be pleased to answer any question on the subject,
besides inquiries regarding the League of American Wheelmen, so
far as possible. Correspondents should address Editor Bicycling
Department.

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This department will, so far as possible, publish maps and descriptions
of various bicycle routes in the vicinity of different important cities
in America.

The map this week is of New York city. It shows at once just what can be
done with a bicycle in New York, what are the best ways of getting out
of the city, and where the best streets for wheeling are through its
whole length. Most of the black roads are of asphalt pavement, but of
course the Riverside Drive, West Seventy-second Street, and the long
avenues above the Park, as well as those in the Park, are of macadam. It
will pay wheelmen, or boys and girls who expect to be wheelmen or
wheelwomen soon, to tear out this page and keep it for reference, for by
careful study it will show how to avoid pavement, so far as possible, in
getting from one part of the city to another.

To begin with the East Side below Fourteenth Street. The wheelman's
object must be to get to Second Avenue as directly as possible. He
should then go up Second Avenue, which is asphalted to Twenty-second
Street, turn east into Lexington, and go up the latter to Thirty-second
Street. Here is the beginning of Murray Hill, and the asphalt stops. He
has two blocks to ride on Lexington, and then turning west he has half
an avenue block uphill to Park Avenue and Thirty-fourth Street. From
here he has almost a clear asphalted or macadamized road out of New
York. He turns through to Madison Avenue on any street from Thirty-four
to Fortieth, goes down the paved hill between Forty-first and
Forty-second streets on Madison Avenue, and then keeps on the latter
till he turns through Fifty-eighth Street, crosses Fifth Avenue, and if
a dry day enters the Park, or if too soon after rain passes west up
Fifty-ninth Street.

Suppose it has rained recently. The bicycler keeps to Fifty-ninth Street
till he reaches the Boulevard at Eighth Avenue. He should then take the
right side of the Boulevard going out till he reaches Ninety-sixth
Street, when he must cross to the left side, owing to the fact t