NYC Bike Shop Recommendations?

[ninerfan]

Hoping the board's collective expertise can help me out Well, mostly help out my brother.

My bro lives in Manhattan and has been a runner for the last few years but thanks to a really bum knee (arthritic and he will be having an ACL/meniscus repair in June) will have to give up the running. So, with some friendly () encouragement from his sister, he's decided to take up biking as his newest form of exercise. I'm supposed to take the lead on bike research as the supposed bike expert in the family (HA!). Right now I'm just trying to give him the names of some reputable shops in NYC. He's looking to buy a road bike and is willing to spend $1k-1.5k. He's never owned a road bike before. Suggestions?