Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Athletes and Celebrities

If You Build It With Less Parking, They Will Still Come

By Brad Aaron | Apr 10, 2008 | 16 Comments

We’re nearly a couple of weeks into baseball season, and fans of the Washington Nationals are enjoying their new transit-, bike- and pedestrian-friendly stadium. The DC complex, with its transit links, shuttle buses and valet bike parking, is so accessible — and city efforts to encourage fans to get there by alternate means so […]

Unlike the Knicks, “New York’s Team” Takes the Subway to Work

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 13, 2007 | 14 Comments

We already know that the New York Rangers’ center Sean Avery loves riding his bike. Now we learn that forward Brendan Shanahan and several other teammate take the subway to the office. From yesterday’s New York Times: "Still, Shanahan, a 20-year veteran, said he liked the atmosphere in the Rangers’ half of the empire. He […]

Rangers New Center is Happy to Be Back on His Bike

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 18, 2007 | 2 Comments

No more double-parking in front of the net or on bike lanes around Madison Square Garden. Traded from Los Angeles, Sean Avery, the Rangers new center, tells the New York Times Magazine why he enjoys playing in the Big Apple: Home away from home: Before the Rangers, I played for the Los Angeles Kings, and […]

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

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 8, 2007 | 5 Comments

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 […]

Bicycles Are the New NYC “It Girl” Fashion Accessory

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 6, 2007 | 38 Comments

Actress Chloe Sevigny and her folding bike. This week’s New York Observer story on "the beautiful bicycle girls of New York" may very well be the most e-mailed news item ever forwarded to the Streetsblog inbox. Calm down, people! Gillian Reagan observes what appears to be a new trend in New York City: Exceptionally good […]

Bike Parking on Steroids

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jul 27, 2007 | 23 Comments

"Cyclists are so used to doing with scraps and they’ve been that way for so long that they are shocked when they get anything that satisfies their needs." Barry Bonds may almost have the home run record, but the San Francisco Giants have another milestone that is much more admirable: the first free, convienent, […]

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