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The Tri-State area's number one source for News and Information. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani helped kick-start the 24th annual Bike New York at 8 a.m. in Battery Park, in lower Manhattan. Portions of many of the city's major traffic arteries were closed for the race, causing some congestion on alternative routes. Riders headed up Sixth Avenue to Central Park and continued north through Harlem and into the Bronx. Brooklyn was next, as riders covered ground on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the Belt Parkway before heading into Staten Island across the Verrazano Bridge.