Five Boro Bike Tour returns: What you need to know about street closures

The TD Five Boro Bike Tour, which is expected to bring tens of thousands of cyclists to the streets of New York City, will be closing down vast stretches of roadway to cars and other motorized vehicles on Sunday.

Cyclists will be taking over 40 miles of city streets and pathways, with the first wave of bikes departing from Lower Manhattan at 7:30 a.m. Sunday. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the city Department of Transportation are encouraging people to avoid car travel within the five boroughs and use public transit.

The cycling route, which is viewable here, goes from Lower to Upper Manhattan before heading into the Bronx. It returns to Manhattan along the East Side before heading into Queens and Brooklyn. The tour finishes in Staten Island.

Here’s what we know about road closures:

Manhattan

• Greenwich Street between Battery Place and Morris Street
• Trinity Place between Morris Street and Liberty Street
• Church Street between Liberty Street and Canal Street
• Chambers Street between Broadway and West Broadway
• Worth Street between Broadway and West Broadway
• Canal Street between Broadway and Sixth Avenue
• Sixth Avenue between Franklin Street and West 59th Street
• West 59th Street between Sixth Avenue and Fifth Avenue
• Grand Army Plaza (Manhattan) between West 59th Street and East Drive
• East Drive between Grand Army Plaza (Manhattan) and Center Drive
• Center Drive between Fifth Avenue and East Drive
• East Drive between Center Drive and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard
• Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard between West 110th Street and West 135th Street
• East/West 135th Street between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and Madison Avenue
• Madison Avenue between East 135th Street and East 138th Street
• Madison Avenue Bridge (Bronx-bound)
• Harlem River Drive/FDR Drive (southbound) between Third Avenue Bridge and East 116th Street
• East 116th Street between FDR Drive and Pleasant Avenue
• Pleasant Avenue between East 116th Street and East 114th Street
• Harlem River Drive /FDR Drive (southbound)…