Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Why I Ride

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 […]