Bike riders in Williamsburg repaint bike lanes
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monovsstereo at 12.8.09 - 8:48 am
after the city removed them due to pressure from the Hasidic community.
SO awesome.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/bike_war_paint_g7EizkFEZktV3IlNUJosQM
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AW MAN, SO I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE THAT GETS EXCITED LOOKING AT HIPSTERS? LOL
eddieboyinla12.8.09 - 9:03 am
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TO EXPLAIN:
Scantily clad hipster cyclists attracted to the Brooklyn neighborhood made it difficult, the Hasids said, to obey religious laws forbidding them from staring at members of the opposite sex in various states of undress.
eddieboyinla12.8.09 - 9:16 am
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Since when did bikes become a religious issue?
Joe Borfo12.8.09 - 9:49 am
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I'm in Williamsburg right now and the bike lanes are seriously beautiful. Almost as beautiful as all the hipsters.
steph responding to a
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12.8.09 - 9:51 am
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oi vey! why don't the Hasids show a little self control and stop staring at us.
hipster responding to a
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12.8.09 - 10:02 am
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for eddieboyinla a little brooklyvegan.com
hipster12.8.09 - 10:07 am
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Try using search function..........
Foldie responding to a
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12.8.09 - 11:03 am
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leave it to the NEW YORK POST to enflame ethnic tensions.
WHAT A FUCKED UP STORY
why do they have to have the picture of the chick riding the wrong way ... the fucking bike lane shows the correct direction to ride.
why do they quote some dumbass who compares it to the racial vigilatnisim of virginia beach?
what douchbaggery.
and why label (young not hasidic) people at "hipsters" how fucking stupid is that.
I often ride down Poinsettia which is in a Hasid community.
They have put in some good crosswalks across streets like beverly.
Cars kill peds ... bikes don't
Bikes and peds are natural allies
The "hipsters'" fight is not with the Hasids ... its with the the city who made a fucked up transportation decision based on political pressure
that's the real scandal.
as chuck d said
Fuck The NY POST
trickmilla12.8.09 - 11:18 am
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More from Streetsblog:
The guerrilla re-striping of a portion of the Bedford Avenue bike lane at 4:00 a.m. this morning was the work of both secular Williamsburg residents and members of the Hasidic community, according to Baruch Herzfeld, a local bike-shop operator and cycling advocate with ties to both communities.
Views of the bike lane within the Hasidic community are hardly monolithic, Herzfeld told Streetsblog. "Scores of people in the Hasidic community are actually pissed about this bike lane being eradicated at the behest of traditionalists," he said. "These members of the community may not want to 'come out' as bike warriors just yet, but they're promising continuous action until the bike lane returns."
DOT removed 14 blocks of the bike lane last Tuesday, infuriating cyclists on both the north and south sides of the Williamsburg Bridge.
This morning's display of unity between cyclists from inside and outside the Hasidic community drew officers from the NYPD and members of a neighborhood security patrol. Several people were given summonses, but no one was arrested, according to Herzfeld, who operates a bike clubhouse at the foot of the Williamsburg Bridge that is frequented by secular and Hasidic customers.
Herzfeld was not present at the re-striping, but says he received text messages early this morning from those who received summonses. At one point during the confrontation between bike advocates and the neighborhood watch, a female activist was pushed off her bike by a member of the patrol, he reports, adding that the neighborhood watch also held two bike lane advocates by force until the NYPD could arrive to issue summonses. Requests for confirmation from NYPD have not been returned.
Herzfeld, who is an observant Orthodox Jew, but not Hasidic, says he's heartened by the group's move, and says the action is a sign of things to come.
"The combined efforts of bike advocates and progressive Hasids to reinstate one of the borough's safest and greenest transportation arteries has huge implications for South Williamsburg," he said.
Foldie responding to a
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12.8.09 - 11:40 am
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hipster in Williamsburg = The New Palestinians
Removing bike lanes = Settlements
hipster12.8.09 - 1:37 pm
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"you're doing it cos i'm black, right?"
coldcut12.8.09 - 3:38 pm
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