Rush Hour in Brooklyn
This was a first for us: En route to the office this morning we encountered actual congestion in the bike lane along Navy Street, though the strikingly homogeneous group of riders remained quite civil as they pulled up to the intersection and waited, law-abidingly, for the light to turn green. As we approached Sands Street,…
This was a first for us: En route to the office this morning we encountered actual congestion in the bike lane along Navy Street, though the strikingly homogeneous group of riders remained quite civil as they pulled up to the intersection and waited, law-abidingly, for the light to turn green. As we approached Sands Street, everyone else made a left towards the Manhattan Bridge as we continued on towards Dumbo.
“DIBS are you implying that Mr. B is implying that only white people follow bike rules?”
oh, they’re all white? i thought he was pointing out the fact they all have messenger bags
I wan’t implying anything, ditto. I just thought it was a point worth discussing.
But it’s getting rather late in the day.
DIBS are you implying that Mr. B is implying that only white people follow bike rules?
trying to reinvograte the thread here.
i have a story that reflects what as i see as the contradictions of brooklyn in 2010. i’m at my kid’s preschool graduation last week at a school in park slope. (yes, preschool graduation, park slope–you can imagine the scene). anyway, there are cops all around, in a very low-crime area, at 10 am on a weekday morning. what happened? apparently a crossing guard working for the elementary school across the street was knocked down by a hit-and-run driver! a crossing guard!
that’s my brooklyn for you. while families gather for preschool graduation at a lovely little school on a tree-lined street, the cops are investigating a hit-and-run-down of a crossing guard.
I was waiting for something like that, Biff. it was too easy.
“Kind of like the gang in “A Clockwork Orange”? Or maybe that is just that their behavior included a lot of striking.”
Haha, well played.
Only unions engage in strikes. And that’s coming to an end soon.
DIBS likes to think he is a homo genius.
It could be strikingly homogeneous when one is not expecting homogeneity.