“The Greenway” Route Details (New York)
Released in October 2025 as part of the Prospect Park expansion to Zwift’s New York map, “The Greenway” takes riders through the upper portion of Prospect Park, the sunlit halls of the Brooklyn subway, and across the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges in both directions.
Released in October 2025 as part of the Prospect Park expansion to Zwift’s New York map, “The Greenway” takes riders through the upper portion of Prospect Park, the sunlit halls of the Brooklyn subway, and across the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges in both directions.
Route Basics
Length: 36.2 km (22.5 miles)
Elevation: 290m (951′)
+0.6km (0.4 miles) lead-in with 2m (7′) elevation
Map: New York
ZIMetrics
Rating: 18.1/100 🛈
Time Estimates 🛈
lead-in + first lap
4 W/kg: 53 minutes
3 W/kg: 59 minutes
2 W/kg: 72 minutes
Start & Finish
Begins from the Prospect Park start pens with a lead-in to The Hill KOM arch, which serves as the finish line as well.
Format: Loop
Ride Achievement Badge: 805 XP
Run Achievement Badge: none
Strava Segments
Route Description
Events on this route begin in the Prospect Park start pens, with riders traveling clockwise around the upper half of the park. The arch just up the road for The Hill KOM serves as the official start/finish line for the course.
Soon after traveling through that arch, you’ll turn right onto Center Drive, where you’ll hit the Center Sprint Reverse segment then turn right again to return to the main loop. A left takes you out of Prospect Park and into Grand Army Plaza before descending Flatbush Avenue and entering the subway tunnel.
(Zwift’s Brooklyn subway is noteworthy for its gritty graffiti, but also because it was built with glass and open ceilings that let in the sunlight, allowing greenery to flourish inside. A subway-esque sort of greenway, hence the route name.)
Test your peak power by taking on the 5-second Power Segment, the first of four Power Segments on this route. Then climb out and head over the Manhattan Bridge, which includes another sprint segment if you’re so inclined. (Tourist tip: in our opinion, the view of the skyline from this bridge, in this direction, is the best of the four bridge views you’ll see on this course.)
You’ll find Manhattan on the other side, but you’ll also be turning around quickly and starting the Brooklyn Bridge KOM, which ends midway across the bridge at its peak height. While not particularly steep, this is the biggest climb on the route. Finish it, descend back into the Brooklyn subway, and you can take on a 20-second Power Segment before climbing out and heading back to Prospect Park.
These roads might feel familiar now, because you’re riding the same clockwise loop of upper Prospect Park that you started with, then heading back toward the bridges via the same subway tunnels.
But this time, you’ll be crossing the East River via the Brooklyn Bridge, then returning via the Manhattan Bridge. Got the legs for another sprint? Go for it!
Then it’s down into the subway one last time for another go at that 20-second Power Segment before climbing up Flatbush to Grand Army Plaza, and back into Prospect Park to sprint through the finish line arch. You did it!
Really enjoyed this new route. Well done Zwift
Waited all summer for new roads, and they give us this, more NY which everyone hates anyhow. Riding it now, and well, how dull, terrible. People who dont live in cities, ride outside of the city for the peace. People who live in cities, want to ride outside the city, for the peace. I mean, Zwift, are you thick?
Holy smokes. Time to take a LONGGGG look in the mirror and do some reflecting. This is a frightening level of misery.
I’m from Boston and am like, “Dude, take it easy.”
I looked this map up before riding it last night for Zwift Unlocked. I was a little worried about it based on this particular review. But I gotta say, what a lovely route. Riding over the Brooklyn Bridge was awesome, and that part just before with all the big glowing sail things above the road – beautiful. How lucky are we that technology has come this far? That we can ride around in worlds half made up in some talented designer’s imagination? What a time to be alive!
IRL the prospect park loop cannot be ridden (safely) clockwise. 😠
Nobody rides it clockwise. If you try you’ll be called out as a a-hole by other cyclists. Same in Central Park. I’ve seen people pulled over by the cops for doing it.
Rode it this morning. Got the route badge. Very repetitive and hopefully won’t have to ride it again.
So I did this ride this morning, and it was a fine, pretty fast ride. But, was curious about the bonus XP issued after completing the event for the first time. I got 805 XP (and noticed on Strava others got 805 XP too), but cannot figure out how that was calculated?
Supposed to be the lead-in + 1 lap distance in km, * 20 XP per km. But the math doesn’t quite pencil out on this one… which happens occasionally.
Seems on the ride map in both Companion and Strava/Garmin etc. there is a weird “teleport” line from Central Park down to the actual route start in Prospect Park (using AppleTV for reference). Looking in the Companion social feed appears it may be affecting other routes as well (saw someone’s Spinfinity ride with a similar issue). Map glitch aside enjoyed the route and definitely zapped the legs toward the end.
Yeah, it’s a minor bug I told Zwift about a couple of weeks ago… they say it’ll be fixed in the next update.
Just completed. Went 38k. No credit for ride. Disappointing.