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Shocking Video of the Manhattan Bridge “Battleground”

By Ben Fried | Aug 16, 2011 | 22 Comments

Before we get to the recap of today’s live chat about bike lanes on the Daily News’s Daily Politics blog, let’s rewind a little further. Yesterday morning Alex Nazaryan, a member of the Daily News editorial board, joined me, Doug Gordon from Brooklyn Spoke, and a few other cyclists for a bike commute over the […]

The Daily News Has Got to Stop Printing Cyclist Stereotypes

By Ben Fried | Aug 12, 2011 | 32 Comments

One of the enduring mysteries of the NYC transportation media landscape is how the Daily News opinion page can be so on-target with its transit pieces, and so far off the mark when the topic turns to bicycling. Last week, the opinion writers published this excellent takedown of the joint John Liu/Tom DiNapoli MTA audit […]

The Times Invites Drivers to Take a Spin Through the Central Park Loop

By Ben Fried | Jul 15, 2011 | 17 Comments

Say what you will about yesterday’s Corey Kilgannon piece extolling the “guilty pleasure” of driving on the Central Park loop, it’s refreshing to see the New York Times veil of objectivity stripped away, revealing the naked windshield perspective beneath. I mean, here it is, raw and unfiltered. Driving on city streets is miserable (“the doldrums […]

In the Tortured Mind of Steve Cuozzo, Even Street Trees Are a Threat

By Brad Aaron | Jul 15, 2011 | 14 Comments

Well it finally happened. Steve “Quixote” Cuozzo has conceded that the Times Square pedestrian plazas, the project to which he has devoted two years of relentless tilting, are a hit. Not only are they “popular with burger-chomping tourists,” writes Cuozzo in Thursday’s column, such a draw are Times Square’s new public spaces that they threaten […]

Bin Laden Is Dead, But the Second Avenue Bike Lane Lives On

By Ben Fried | Jul 8, 2011 | 78 Comments

Given enough time, the theory goes, a thousand monkeys banging away at a thousand typewriters will eventually compose the complete works of Shakespeare. But Marcia Kramer and the crack news writers at CBS2 only needed a couple of hours, maybe less, to come up with last night’s masterpiece about the extension of the First and […]

Demystifying NYC’s Cycling Gender Gap

By Ben Fried | Jul 5, 2011 | 6 Comments

The Times called some attention to New York City’s cycling gender gap this weekend with a feature titled “Women, Uneasy, Still Lag as Cyclists in New York City.” Judging from Christine Haughney’s write-up, the gender imbalance among NYC cyclists is immutable and impervious to policies that seek to shake up the status quo on the […]

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