Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about David Byrne

Spot the Celebrity Bike-Share Planner

By Ben Fried | Feb 7, 2012 | 4 Comments

It was another evening of hands-on bike-share station planning at Manhattan Community Board 2 last night, as New Yorkers hunched over maps of SoHo and Greenwich Village, marking the best places to site bike-share kiosks. If you live or work in the bike-share service area, you really ought to mark your calendar for the station […]

Sadik-Khan Joins Blumenauer, Byrne for “Cities for Cycling” Launch

By Elana Schor | Dec 9, 2009 | 6 Comments

Addressing a packed house in Washington last night, Rep. Earl Blumenauer, founder of the Congressional Bike Caucus, posed a Zen-like ‘universalist cyclist question’. Photo: Cities for Cycling "How many people, right now," he asked, "are stuck in traffic on their way to ride a stationary bike in a health club?" The quip got a big […]

Packed House Applauds Bicycle Diarist Byrne and Friends

By Charles Komanoff | Sep 24, 2009 | 9 Comments

What was billed as a book reading by famed Talking Heads frontman David Byrne on Tuesday evening took on the air of a teach-in on cities and bicycles, with Byrne and fellow cycling superstars Janette Sadik-Khan and Paul Steely White taking turns extolling New York City’s blooming bicycle infrastructure before a packed house at the […]

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 […]

David Byrne on Bicycling in NYC

By Jason Varone | Jun 28, 2007 | 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 | Apr 16, 2007 | 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: […]

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