Photo via Brooklyn Museum / Brooklyn Public Library
This is so good. My neighborhood very well may be the epicenter for the "H" word. You know what I'm talking about. With track bikes, and cycling in general, at a new high, everyone in NYC sees you on a bike and snarks "Go back to Williamsburg!". Well, as history proves, Bedford avenue has long been filled with cyclists.
Gothamist just posted a photo of Bedford Avenue in 1896, literally filled with cyclists. Now what do you do? Print it out and shove it in the faces of everyone who accosts you on the street?
Comments
spoke cards and hand them out.
Posted by: crihs | February 23, 2010 4:14 PM
I have never once been told to go back to Williamsburg.
P.s. What is the "H" word?
Posted by: dwain | February 23, 2010 4:19 PM
hipsters...
Posted by: mean | February 23, 2010 4:29 PM
hecidic...
Posted by: jordan | February 23, 2010 4:51 PM
That dude on the far right is getting off his bike to repaint the bike lane.
Posted by: b. taylor | February 23, 2010 10:48 PM
Would a hipster call this photo a sepia colorway?
Posted by: Wizard | February 23, 2010 11:24 PM