I have a right to ride my bike where ever I want, lines or not. This is the U.S.A. Dare to trample my rights that trump your Shar'iah and I'll take you on. We don't live in Afghanistan. Step out of the stone age.

Fact is, if anyone purposely body checked me off a bike, I would get off and you forget what happened from there.

Wow. How brave are they to do that! I wish I could be as brave in other things to other than washing my muddy feet on the school's pool fountains. Haha.

If Shomrim were fake would you be reading about it? Shomrim is very real. If every community had their own civilians looking out for their neighborhoods perhaps there would be less crime. I'm glad they arrested these punks.

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Well I don't want to get all philosophical here, But this like what's happening in Prospect Heights, sort of amuses me . Why you ask, Well that's easy, It illustrates that [1] Our local Pols. are corrupt bitches with there hands stuck in the cookiejar . [2] Those same folks ( You all call'em Hipsters) that are now being victimized by the powers that be were the ones benefiting from it a while back ! (i.e -moving into poor neighborhoods and pricing those living their out) You can't have it both ways people, Your ideals may be popular today , But that doesn't guarantee tomorrow will hold the same fate ! I hate using race as a focal point , But when the Jews want something they whine and bitch about it until they get it ! A great example of this would be the Ridgewood bound bus stop for which used to be located at the corner of Nostrand Avenue @ Myrtle on the B54 . It was moved to the end of the block by Spencer St. to Accomendate the "mighty jews" .

I'm from Brooklyn,Coney Island. All you Brooklynites that don't want the newbies around.... Bloomberg is from Boston. He's the one everyone should be pissed at.

He ran for a third term, after we all voted twice for term limits. Let's get our priorities straight here. These kids in Williamsburg have helped this area. It was rundown and boring! No area of this city should be one religion or color. It's all ours. Lets all agree that Bloomberg kisses up to anyone and any group that can help Mr. Bloomberg.

He is the one that came up with all these bike lanes and pedestrian plazas that are clogging up traffic, so taking them away in one neighborhood is suspect wouldn't you agree. He doesn't only just buy votes with money, he's as corrupt as any other politician in New York.

I drive down Bedford Ave everyday, there is plenty of room for the bike lane and then some. It makes sense, it keeps the cyclists safe. WHy they removed? We all know why.

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Yeah, I have no idea what you cyclists are complaining about. The new Kent Ave bike lane just over from the previous Bedford lane makes a great angle-in parking lot:

I have a friend whos a cop who tells me on more than one occasion he caught hasidic jewish kids spray painting swastikas on synogogues. The rabbis refused to press charges because in their minds the kids only did it to increase police presence in the area to make the neighborhood safer.

Sorry, I should have been more clear. These are figures for the City of New York and were counted in 2000. According to American Community Survey, the population of NYC grew by about 300,000 since then. I have included the entire table below for clarification. The percentages all are percentages of the total city population, but the periods designate subsets (e.g. Midwest is a subset of 'people born in other state in the US', which is a subset of 'Native', itself a subset of the total. The 115,878 Midwesterners are part of the 798,565 non-New Yorkers, but the Midwest number corresponds with 1.45% of the total city pop.

The data are not perfect since they only show place of birth. I would actually be counted in West since I was born in CA, but I spent my whole childhood in WI, so for all intents and purposes I'm a Midwesterner. This also means that the New York percentage I mentioned (49.51%) includes Long Island, Westchester, Albany, Buffalo, and other places that are obviously not NYC and are often derided as "others" by purists.

As for the regions, I tried to find it quickly, but I have to run catch a bus. I believe that NE includes ME, VT, NH, CT, RI, NY, PA, NJ, DE, MD, DC, but I cannot be certain. West is CA, NV, OR, WA, ID, MT, WY, CO, AZ, UT, NM. South is VA, NC, SC, TN, KY?, GA, FL, AL, MS, LA, AR, TX, but I'm not 100% certain. FL definitely is South.

Actually, according to this, only 9.97% are born in US, another state. It does seem pretty small, but then again, it still counts for almost 800,000 people. I tend to trust the Census data as one of the best sources for a lot of data, provided you make sure to understand what it means.

I'll try to remember to keep watching this in case you have any further questions. It's really amazing that 36% are foreign.

NYC Total Population (5 boroughs):8,008,278

..Native: 5,137,246 (64.15%)

....Born in state of residence: 3,964,551 (49.51%)

....Born in other state in the United States:798,565 (9.97%)

......Northeast: 242,006 (3.02%)

......Midwest: 115,878 (1.45%)

......South: 368,388 (4.60%)

......West: 72,293 (0.90%)

....Born outside the United States: 374,130 (4.67%)

......Puerto Rico: 304,168 (3.80%)

......U.S. Island Areas: 10,045 (0.13%)

......Born abroad of American parent(s): 59,917 (0.75%)

..Foreign born: 2,871,032 (35.85%)

....Naturalized citizen: 1,278,687 (15.97%)

....Not a citizen: 1,592,345 (19.88%)

A much more scientific statistical sampling taken by The Center For Public Sodomy reveals that NYC breaks down to: Native New Yorker: 52.9%; Reject From Ohio: 44.1% with "Other" accounting for 3% of the city's population. ( and that could include anything like celebrities, Sad Pandas, and Samoans )

Ahh, but you misread their metadata. That was only a sampling of those who accepted public sodomy and/or advanced lubrication assistance.

There's a video. Awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19oo7Ejq9WI

Let 'em work. Let 'em live.

they should build a wall around their little community, we can call it the W'burg Ghetto. perhaps Bloomie can arrange for a mass deportation to Madagascar? Hasidic women make my eyes bleed.

I love all the "real" New Yorkers who wanna beat the crap out of all us Midwestern invaders. Let's see here...

According to the US Census, 2000 (New York City):

49.5% born in New York State

52.5% born anywhere in the Northeast

35.9% foreign born

1.4% born in the Midwest

Please take the three minutes to get your facts straight before hooting and hollering, since you "real" New Yorkers are in the minority here and "real" Northeasterners (inc. a lot of middle of nowhere places) are barely the majority. Not to mention the fact that most "real" New Yorkers of all ages, races, and income groups whom I meet are very accepting and wonderful people who understand that this city is built on movement.

I'll tell you what though, we'll all go back to our flyover states once you can convince all your rich, snobby parents to leave our states and come back to New York. I can assure you the gentrification will explode. We have the same "natives" whining about being overrun by New Yorkers.

Look, people move to a new place because they are interested in something that place has to offer. Often they bring some really annoying people with them, but generally they make that place a more interesting place to be. This is especially the case here in what could very well be the most multicultural place in the world.

As for registering bicycles, you've gotta be kidding me. The cost of the simple record keeping of such a scheme would vastly eat up any possible revenue, plus bicycles cause almost zero wear and tear, much less than cars since wear and tear decreases exponentially compared to weight.

http://www.vabike.org/

This is certainly not worth the very occasional hit and run bicycle crash since most crashes severe enough to injure a pedestrian will also disable the cyclist.

How about getting the police to actually enforce rules of the road for both bikes and autos? How about the garbage trucks that routinely barrel through my neighborhood at 45 mph running stop lights?

Anyway, have a nice day either way.

I'm having trouble with these numbers, and drawing a Venn diagram doesn't seem to help. Does this imply that 13.2% are Americans, not from New York state, or are they American-born Northeasterners, not from NY state? Seems to leave too small of a percentage of people from the South (including FL) and CA. Also, what does the NE include? NJ, PA, DC? If DC, what about MD, DE and VA?

this argument is pointless. the bike lane always had vans, delivery trucks and strollers blocking it anyways. what's the big deal if the stripe is gone? it was never possible to ride from flushing to broadway without being in traffic while people play frogger with their kids in buggies anyways.

chicago has jews AND bike lanes. And they live in harmony! How's that for a hick midwest town?