"How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" "Ride your bike there!"
June 22, 2016 6:12 PM   Subscribe

NYC Streets Metamorphosis looks back at the transformation of Times Square, Herald Square, the Brooklyn waterfront and other locations around NYC that are shifting away from their automobile-centric past. From Streetfilms, a part of the Streetsblog network.
posted by Room 641-A (2 comments total) 7 users marked this as a favorite
 
My family is from NYC going back several generations. This is an interesting video but it makes me sad. New York is supposed to be noisy, gritty, and grubby - not sanitized for your protection.

In the early eighties, I was a bike messenger in Manhattan. It doesn't even look like it would be a challenge anymore, what with the bike lanes and the orderly pedestrians. Do people even jaywalk anymore?!?

I remember the time I nearly got hit by a truck that was trying to make a left turn when I had the right of way. I turned around and flipped the driver off and yelled "Hey, fuck you, I had the right of way!" (as one does in NYC), and several other pedestrians yelled at the driver in various assorted languages and accents. The driver yelled something rude back at me, and then a member of NYC's finest stepped up to the truck and gave the driver a ticket. Ah, those were the days!
posted by MexicanYenta at 11:06 PM on June 22, 2016 [1 favorite]


Do people even need to jaywalk any longer? I doubt it's as sweet as presented here, but it does look like I need to visit NYC again! It's been a dozen years. The statute of limitations is seven years, right?
posted by Autumn Leaf at 1:43 AM on June 23, 2016


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