Here’s the latest installment — and first-ever February edition — of Streetsblog’s Why I Ride series. Peter, 33, is a surgeon at Lenox Hill Hospital. A lifelong New York area native, he only started bike commuting in May of last year. He lives on 1st Avenue and was encouraged by the expansion of the bike lane there. […]

Here’s the latest installment — and first-ever January edition — of Streetsblog’s Why I Ride series. You never know who you’ll meet on a bike in New York. Yesterday it was famous illustrator/designer Bob Gill. “It’s called a ‘butcher’s basket.'” he says in answer to my question. “It’s the biggest one I could find.” I ask Mr. […]

Enjoy this special Tuesday installment of Streetsblog’s Why I Ride series. Eldrid was born in Hawaii and moved to Queens after getting out of the Air Force in the 1960s. He bought his first New York bike, a light-weight 3-speed, shortly thereafter. A tinkerer and collector, he’s had two or three bikes in various states of repair at […]

I ran into Mary on her commute down the First Avenue bike lane. She works as an ESL instructor and has been bike commuting in New York since 1995. For the past 10 years she has been at her dream job — teaching English to delegates and staff at the United Nations English Language Programme. […]

Here’s the latest installment (after an extended hiatus) in Streetsblog’s Why I Ride series. Luis is a building super and handyman. After moving to New York from Chile in the 1980s he started riding a bike right away, commuting from his home on Ocean Avenue in Brooklyn. He now lives in the Lower East Side, closer […]

Here’s the latest installment in Streetsblog’s Why I Ride series. Ed Lederman started riding a bike in New York in 1982. He had just arrived in the city with a dream of becoming a professional photographer and landed his first New York job: cleaning a photographer’s studio. Not long into this lean period, it occurred […]

Here’s the latest portrait in Streetsblog’s “Why I Ride” series. Henriette lives in lower Manhattan, works in film set design and uses her bike for just about everything – commuting, errands, and child transport. She owns a car too, but only really uses it for getting out of the city. I caught up with her […]

Lisa is a city planner with Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration, an organization focused on developing small businesses and revitalizing the neighborhood. She grew up with bicycles – she remembers as a little kid being jealous of her older brothers because they had cooler bikes than her. It was when she moved to Philadelphia 10 years ago […]

Here’s the latest portrait in Streetsblog’s “Why I Ride” series. Julio has been working as a building superintendent for 15 years. During that time he has found that a bike is the best way to move between the 10 properties he supervises. He lives in Alphabet City and had at one point considered using his […]

Here’s the latest portrait in Streetsblog’s “Why I Ride” series. Jono has worked as an assistant director for several television shows, including “Law and Order” and currently the CBS show “Blue Bloods.” A native New Yorker, he’s biked here off and on most of his life, but has been a regular commuter for the last […]

Here’s the latest portrait in Streetsblog’s weekly “Why I Ride” series. Iga is a 15-year resident of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and she’s been biking around New York for about that long. She says she’s not a bike commuter but likes to go on long rides for pleasure. “Sometimes I ride to Coney Island, or to the […]