Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Athletes and Celebrities

David Byrne on Bicycling in NYC

By Jason Varone | | 8 Comments
Transportation Alternatives’ Noah Budnick and David Byrne prior to the Manhattan Borough President’s "Manhattan on the Move" conference, October 2006. Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne writes about his 30 years of cycling in New York City on his website.  Byrne is an avid bicyclist, and an alternative transportation advocate: I have been riding a […]

He’s on a Road to Nowhere: David Byrne’s Bicycle Stolen

By Jason Varone | | 6 Comments
Transportation Alternatives’ Noah Budnick schmoozes with David Byrne prior to the Manhattan Borough President’s "Manhattan on the Move" conference, October 2006. Talking Heads frontman David Byrne’s foldable Montague mountain bike was stolen outside the IFC Center this weekend. Byrne is an avid city bicyclist, and an alternative transportation advocate.  Gothamist and Papermag have the story: […]

Separated at Birth?

By Aaron Naparstek | | 5 Comments
You know that a change in the zeitgeist is afoot when Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer’s transportation policy conference tomorrow provides fodder for the New York Post’s Page Six: We Hear That… some of the city’s better known alternative transportation advocates – Moby, David Byrne and Matthew Modine – plan to pedal over on their […]

Please, Derek.

By Aaron Naparstek | | 1 Comment
Tri-State Ford dealers have rolled out a new television ad called "My Turn" starring New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter and filmmaker Spike Lee. If you’ve watched baseball on television during the last two weeks than it is almost impossible for you to have missed it. Here is how it goes: A red Ford Mustang […]