Originally Posted by
UnfilteredDregs
Nope. Anyone who seriously trains in this city heads over to Henry Hudson Park & 9W on the other side of the GWB...or as others have said CP and Prospect Park early in the morning.
The places to do it are here. I know quite a few fellows who come up from BK, cross the bridge and do intervals on the Jersey side, or who get up very early and head to CP or Prospect.
Plenty of places to do interval work in this city.
First off, 9W is NOT NYC. it is North Jersey and goes into parts of rural NY State, like Nuyack. The OP was asking about NYC, not "NYC'ish" Second, I have been in Central and Prospect Parks early in the morning when there were plenty of people around. Not anywhere near as much as, say in the afternoons or weekends, later in the AM and afternoons, but enough to create some danger while plowing through at breakneck speeds for a road bike. In short, you may be comfortable doing 20+ MPH for extended periods in CP and PP early in the morning, but I certainly am not.