It seems each year the number of people bicycling to Coney Island’s annual Mermaid Parade grows. This year was particularly bike plentiful with thousands of bikes locked to poles, fences, signs, and over a dozen blocks of the boardwalk railing. Even bikes locked to other bikes!
To accompany Clarence Eckerson’s StreetFilm, here are some images from the first annual Make Music New York event… Flickr Photos: ianqui, lisabeebe, miqflickr, dave00327. Also, Ethan Kent and Dave Surgan.
A tipster sends along this snapshot of the parking lot… I mean, sidewalk, outside the High Bridge Recreational Center prior to the meeting last night to discuss plans for the revitalized High Bridge. The talk inside, she says, "was much more encouraging" than the government employee parking situation outside.