"I want to see some boobs," shouted a lone NYPD officer (seen here) who pulled up to our photographer at Bedford Avenue in South Williamsburg, ironically blocking the former bike lane in the process. "I've been trying to'" [...]
"I want to see some boobs," shouted a lone NYPD officer (seen here) who pulled up to our photographer at Bedford Avenue in South Williamsburg, ironically blocking the former bike lane in the process. "I've been trying to'" [...]
Demonstrators have promised to ride bikes down Bedford Avenue naked this evening to protest the recent removal of a bicycle lane amidst mounting pressure from South Williamsburg's Hasidic community. But will the so-called "Freedom Ride" actually happen?
If it takes place, the protest is expected to [...]
Saab’s dead and Volvo’s being sold to Chinese manufacturer, Geely.
I’m sure Sweden’s auto workers and designers are thrilled that GM and Ford came in to buy those car divisions, respectively. Cars make up 13% of Sweden’s annual exports.
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Campus Grotto, a college news site, recently compiled a list of the most expensive college dorms in America. St. John's, NYU, Fordham, New York Institute of Technology-Manhattan and Cooper Union were all in the top 20, but the New School's Eugene Lang College came in first.
Campus Grotto based' [...]
Cyclosity's Flickr If you wondered how much the DOT has spent so far to add and subtract a controversial 14-block stretch of bike lane on Bedford Avenue in South Williamsburg, here's your answer: $11,000 to install and $15,000 to sandblast it away. [...]
Everyone, even if they don't care about bike lanes, seems to be looking forward to the naked bike ride scheduled for Saturday. The spectacle is meant to draw attention to the bikers' plight in ...
Continue reading "Transportation Alternatives Denounces Tomorrow's Naked Bedford Bike Ride" > [...]
It may be a terrible year for the print industry, with diminishing ad sales forcing magazines to scale back on the number of issues and pages they can afford, but at least one magazine is claiming that they're doing better than ever.
After a demonstration last weekend drew more police officers than protesters, cycling activists will rally again to show their support for the Bedford Avenue bike lane — but this time they'll do it in less clothing.
On Saturday, upwards of 50 nude and underwear-clad' [...]
Just three months ago, Joe Lieberman explained his opposition to a public health insurance option by telling a Connecticut newspaper that he instead favored expanding Medicare—a less cumbersome, more affordable way to extend coverage to some Americans, he claimed.
"If you're 55 or 60 and you're without health insurance" [...]
Meanwhile, what the hell is Ben Nelson thinking? Farmers pay a helluva lot more [...]
[UPDATE BELOW] On the same day that a woman was killed while riding her bike in Greenpoint, protesters denounced the Bloomberg administration for removing a 14-block stretch of bike lane on Bedford Avenue in South Williamsburg. Approximately 15 cyclists braved the [...]
A 22-year-old man was shot and killed in a dispute over "bathroom rights" in a Bedford-Stuyvesant rooming house, according to the Daily News. Daquan Boyce called his mother late Saturday night and complained that another tenant in [...]
Last week's bike lane tsimmis on Bedford Avenue had a sad denouement yesterday, reports the Brooklyn Paper: A small band of activists braved the rain to protest the scrubbing of the markers New O...
Continue reading "Bedford Avenue Bike Lane Protest Modest; Lane Revival Not Looking" [...]My Favorite journalist Phelim McAleer is at it again. You may remember Phelim dared asked Saint AlGore a question about errors in his movie Inconvienent Truth at a press conference that AlGore put together. This time he asks Prof Stephen Schneider from Stanford University an Inconvenient Question about ‘Climategate’ emails.
It [...]
Twitter user WmsbgNews captioned this photo "DOT painted black the line painted by the Hipsters."
The saga continues: At some point last night or early this morning, the impromptu bike lane painted by activists on Bedford Avenue in South Williamsburg was [...]
Looks like Jenny Sanford has had enough. "The dissolution of any marriage is a sad and painful process," she says in a statement. But she's up for it: "I am now filing for divorce." "About ti...
Continue reading "Jenny Sanford Announces Divorce from Cheating Governor" > " [...]
A pair of Oscar-winning directors debut new films this weekend, but all anyone really wants to talk about is the King of the World. Thanks to some embargo-breaking reviews, the first (and second and third) word on James Cameron's Avatar has finally reached the masses. And, apparently, it's' [...]
Brooklyn cycling activists angry about the Bedford Avenue bike lane removal are in Copenhagen and waiting to confront Mayor Bloomberg when he arrives on Monday for the international climate change conference. Baruch Herzfeld, an Orthodox Jew who runs a South Williamsburg bike clubhouse, [...]
