Bike Ride: Mystery, History, Murder, and Money Tour or the Lower Manhattan Historic Ride

Visit glamorous and notorious Lower Manhattan’s most famous spots in history, infamy and unparalleled opulence, including:

  • World’s biggest gold vault
  • New York’s legendary Five Points (scene of Scorcese’s movie Gangs of New York)
  • USA’s birthplace
  • Site of Capt. Kidd’s house
  • Site of Herman Melville’s house
  • Wall St. bomb site where 36 died
  • Where Abe Lincoln’s body lay in state
  • Where President-to-be George Washington docked
  • . . . And much, much more

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By Ben Fried |
Editor’s note: Streetsblog has retracted this post. The information on bike-on-ped crashes is not accurate. Read the full correction for an explanation of how we acquired the erroneous data and how we determined it was incorrect. Pedestrian injuries sustained citywide in collisions with bicyclists pale beside the more than 10,000 pedestrian injuries and deaths sustained […]

1,200 Pack Town Hall for “How New Yorkers Ride Bikes”

By Aaron Naparstek |
Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson was at Town Hall on Saturday night for the New Yorker Festival’s "How New Yorkers Ride Bikes," hosted by former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne. Clarence wasn’t allowed to film the event so he published a nice write-up on StreetFilms. Some excerpts: Mr. Byrne, dressed in black and sporting his cool taxi-yellow […]

Eric Ng Memorial Bike Ride This Saturday

By Aaron Naparstek |
There will be a memorial bike ride for Eric Ng, the cyclist killed by a drunk driver on the Hudson River Greenway last week. Details below. Also, here is a note from the Visual Resistance blog. VR are the guys who make the "ghost bikes:" I’ve been making ghost bikes for strangers for a year and […]

MTA Launches Bike-and-Ride Web Site

By Brad Aaron |
In honor of Bike Month, the MTA last week unveiled a new web site that promotes bike-and-ride commuting while providing a one-stop source for info on the numerous logistical hurdles faced by cycling customers. "MTA+Bike" was launched on Friday. On this website … travelers can obtain information about policies for bringing bikes on board the […]