{"id":306275,"date":"2026-07-27T04:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T04:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/306275\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T04:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T04:43:07","slug":"news-12-connecticut-empire-state-ride-bicyclists-camp-overnight-in-montrose-ahead-of-500-mile-cancer-charity-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/306275\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Connecticut | Empire State Ride Bicyclists Camp Overnight In Montrose Ahead Of 500 Mile Cancer Charity Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Hundreds of bicyclists camped overnight in Montrose Sunday night ahead of a week-long, over 500-mile ride that they hope will lead to a cure for cancer.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Hundreds of tents and a lineup of bicycles took over the grounds at the Frank G. Lindsey Elementary School.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The bicyclists with the charitable organization Empire State Ride are on a mission to defeat cancer, by riding from their starting point in Staten Island to Niagara Falls by next Saturday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Each Rider raises a minimum of $3,500 to participate.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Now in its 12th year, the annual event has raised more than $13 million for cancer research.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Empire State Ride founder Terry Bourgeois says more than 300 riders will cross the finish line in Niagara Falls, after the weeklong, 500-mile trip.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The bicyclists will roll out early Monday morning for what will be a 90-mile trip.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Empire State Ride will soon be opening up registration for bicyclists for next year&#8217;s ride.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">To join, follow this <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/empirestateride.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of bicyclists camped overnight in Montrose Sunday night ahead of a week-long, over 500-mile ride that they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-306275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}