Noisy dirt bikes and all-terrain vehicles are roaring through Van Cortlandt Park’s paved paths and dirt trails this summer, despite a citywide crackdown that has taken more than 1,500 of the vehicles off the streets.
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“There's over 40 bikes in the lot now” outside the precinct, Srour said at a June 28 meeting of the local community board’s parks committee. Last year, the alliance asked the parks department for ways to physically “reconfigure” the popular Putnam Trail in the heart of the park to deter motorized bikes. But such a move presents a number of logistical challenges.
She said the bikers pop into the park from many sides, such as Jerome Avenue to the south and Yonkers to the north. “These forests are some of the oldest forests left. And so it does destroy habitat,” Travis said. “It's rough on the park.”
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