I live in Queens, and have several. Perhaps my favorite and somewhat challenging is the Bayside-Cross Island Run: http://www.runningahead.com/logs/b547b398683c44859a20577728e5ffb5/courses/3a9d1f5ca3704a4faa5d8808fb7bcc11/edit It's a very long run, 18 miles, and has a lot of different scenery, capped off with about 3 miles of running alongside the bay (very nice). Of course, I was a little bit foolish, and ran a little bit too long the last time I did it. Wound up with a partially torn right calf muscle. Ouch .