Year: 2013

Biking in Astoria

Thank you, Mayor Bloomberg and Janette Sadik-Khan!

For spending $650 million of your own money while making this city a better place. I’ve lived here 12 years. So it’s hard for me to imagine this city without your rich cranky benevolence. And particular thanks for appointing Janette Sadik-Khan. We’ll miss both of you, but her moreso! Muchas Gracias!

Cycling vs Cars

In New York (and most of America) all you have to say after your kill a bicyclist is, “I didn’t see him (or her)!” That’s it. You go home. No ticket. No crime. I guess you have to file a claim to get your car fixed. The Economist looks at hypotheticals in the Netherlands: •…
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Under the Queensboro Bridge

Massive improvement on the Manhattan side!

Cops in Bike Lines

Via Tumbler.

Another day, another child killed by an Escalade

The Bike Snob NYC does what NYPD doesn’t: Investigates a car that killed a kid: But, you know, it’s the victim’s fault because she wasn’t holding mommy’s hand: The girl was not holding her mother’s hand as they crossed the street near 5th Avenue and 55th St. in Sunset Park around 3:15 p.m., sources said.…
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Awwwww…

My man Andrew Jimenez and the Bicycle Repairman Corp featured in the Queens Times Ledger. It is the best bike store in Astoria and perhaps all of Queens (I don’t know, I haven’t tried them all).

Driver Found at Fault in Crash that Killed Bicyclist

Of course you won’t see that headline in NYC. It’s from San Francisco. What’s interesting is how it happened. The San Fran bike coalition asked businesses if they had video footage. They had. The cops hadn’t asked. The video shows the driver was at fault. As a side note, this was after a cop blocked…
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REBNY: Support Development and Rent Increases in Astoria! (and Vote for Costa)

Can you believe there’s a landlord PAC (political action committee)? Of course you can. REBNY, the Real Estate Board of New York, gives a lot of money to local and state politicians through “Jobs for New York.” (You’re not against “jobs” are you?!) The goal of REBNY: public altruism, of course. Well, and would it…
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Where’s my comment?

I just went through the comment spam filter and found a lot of comments that were not spam. They’ve finally been published. And they go back quite some time. Sorry about that.