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May

Bike New York Five Boro Bike Tour

For the bicycle enthusiast, here's a chance to take a forty-two-mile bike tour of all five boroughs with 30,000 other cyclists. Ends with a festival of music, food, tour merchandise, and support facilities like medical and massage. Free Staten Island Ferry ride back to your starting point. Call 212-932-0778 for more information, or find more information on the Web at www.bikenewyork.org.

Fleet Week

Navy ships from all over the country and abroad gather at Pier 88 at the foot of West Forty-eighth Street in Manhattan and Homepoint Pier in Staten Island where they are open to the public for viewing. Meet sailors and see military demonstrations. Note: the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, the usual Fleet Week anchor, is closed until the fall of 2008. Call 212-245-0072 or go to www.fleetweek.navy.mil for more information.

Washington Square Outdoor Art Show

Hundreds of mostly local artists display paintings, photos, sculpture, and crafts on University Place in Greenwich Village from noon till 6 P.M. Held Memorial Day weekend and the following weekend, also Labor Day weekend and the following weekend. Call 212-982-6255 for more information.

Annual AIDS Walk

This celebrity-filled 10K walkathon starts and ends in Central Park. Find more information on the Web at www.aidswalk.net.

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