New York – On The 8 Spot

December 21, 2009

rePost::Topless Bike Protest In Williamsburg Latest Hipster-Hasidic Jew Battle

Topless Bike Protest In Williamsburg Latest Hipster-Hasidic Jew Battle
NEW YORK — Bicyclists planning a protest ride through New York City are calling it their “Freedom Ride” – free of clothing, that is. The removal of clothing during Saturday’s ride is meant as a protest over the removal of a bike lane in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.
Bicycling advocates say the city erased the bike lane from the Orthodox Jewish neighborhood because some conservative residents were upset about seeing women in skimpy clothing ride by every day.
via Topless Bike Protest In Williamsburg Latest Hipster-Hasidic Jew Battle.

I’m soooo living in the wrong city!!! Bikers in the Philippines should also do this to protest the lack of bike lanes in most major roads!! hehehe!

July 15, 2009

Wanted: A More Walkable City:Why New Yorkers Last Longer — New York Magazine

The urban health penalty, they decided, had inverted itself. The new reality was that living in the suburbs and the country was the killer. In January 2005, Vlahov and his colleagues penned a manifesto they cleverly called “The Urban Health ‘Advantage,’ ” and published it in the Journal of Urban Health. Cities, they posited, were now the healthiest places of all, because their environment conferred subtle advantages—and guided its citizens, often quite unconsciously, to adopt healthier behaviors.
via Why New Yorkers Last Longer — New York Magazine.

May 13, 2009

I feel for Yankees fans:KAY SHILLS AS FANS GET $OAKED – New York Post

from kottke.org here through marginal revolutions here.

Reader Gary Cicio, NYC podiatrist, did the research, and asks us to choose one of the two options to see a Mariners–Yankees game this season, and from the very best seats:
Option 1: Two tickets to Tuesday night, June 30, Mariners at Yanks, cost for just the tickets, $5,000.
Option 2: Two round-trip airline tickets to Seattle, Friday, Aug. 14, return Sunday the 16th, rental car for three days, two-night double occupancy stay in four-star hotel, two top tickets to both the Saturday and Sunday Yanks-Mariners games, two best-restaurant-in-town dinners for two. Total cost, $2,800. Plus-frequent flyer miles.
via KAY SHILLS AS FANS GET $OAKED – New York Post.