The bicycles are taking over the boroughs on Sunday. The TD Five Boro Bike Tour, a 40-mile charity event slated to see more than 32,000 cyclists participate, is set to start in Lower Manhattan on Sunday at 7 a.m. The bikers will be released in waves throughout the morning, and will peddle their way through Central Park, Harlem and the Bronx before crossing FDR Drive and the Queensboro Bridge .
Starting this week, at 7 intersections, city engineers will turn off the stoplights and monitor traffic for two months. At the end, stoplights could be removed and replaced with stop signs.