So I guess I'm commenting on this news a bit late, but I just heard about this protest. I am all for protesting the removal of the bike lane. I ride everywhere, and I agree with all the points that people have made about keeping the lane on Bedford. But the doing the whole naked thing is extremely offensive, especially on Shabbos. Yes, the Hasidim are prudes who have sex through a fucking hole in a sheet. Yes, maybe if they can't handle scantily clad women, they should consider moving to their shetl in Monsey. But today they're not expecting to walk to shul, only to encounter a bunch of people cruising through the 'hood, stripped down naked for the sole purpose of offending the locals. I believe that committing something just to offend someone's religious beliefs is pretty egregious. I hope y'all reconsider doing this- well, at least doing it naked.

In addition, have you noticed the BEAUTIFUL 2 lane bike lane three streets over on KENT...NOW that is some sexy shit!

Normally I am for anything bike and/or nudity. However, this is just disrespectful and immature. Just because someone says something stupid and outrageous doesn't mean that you need to be as well.

As for the comment "If you can't handle scantily clad women … live in a place where you can have your own sanctuary, like upstate," Nice really classy C@^T. Those who have different views then you should MOVE? I've been tolerating your HIPSTER ASS! That is what makes NYC great...our differences :)

"Myrtleave" is a bloody hipster people ! lol

Ok, this B.S. about only hipsters using the bike is total insanity, you morons. I am anything but a hipster by any stretch of the imagination, I am just not deranged enough to think that the only way to get around the city is by car. And yes, I both drive and bike, and there's plenty of non-hipsters using the bike every day.

And guess what, as a driver, I certainly want bloody bike lanes, because I really don't want to hit a bike with my car, no matter whose fault it would be. What's next, are we going to remove sidewalks, too, and have cars start sharing the street with pedestrians as well?

It's obvious that this is not about the children, and it's not about safety either. If it were about safety, the constant jaywalking on Bedford would stop, and the cops would actually enforce the speed limit on Bedford and Flushing. It certainly is about the outsized political power that a particular minority enjoys due to their block-voting, even though that minority otherwise doesn't give a rats ass about the community at large and outside of their own little world.

Yes a naked ride is silly. That area needs a bike lane though as that's the most direct route for getting to north west brooklyn. It's going to be ridden anyway. I'll agree that the buses for the children are difficult to deal with, but that has more to do with the drivers and the lack of good available parking on their part. You just have to be aware around children. Possibly they should remove more parking spaces to make more space for the buses before removing slow moving traffic in favor for faster traffic in closer proximity to the schools.

The nude ride isn't going to help it at all. It's just going to make the people who would protest look like they have no focus to block this on a city level and more apt to be exactly what the residents there expect them to be - flakes.

What would be more interesting is to find out if there was any attempt to put the bike lane somewhere else before just eradicating it.

have your video cameras ready. aggressive cops gonna be pushing and shoving. like that douchebag copper that got fired when he was caught on tape shoving a bicyclist to the ground in times square last year and then lying about it in the arrest report (he was fired for perjury).

That chick in the black and yellow shoes has a really disturbing "bump".

Really ? What's the point ? I mean really, Someone please explain to me what the point of a group of skinny hipsters touring a jewish neiborhood in there draws ! What are they trying to turn those old jews on to (Dare I say it) Hipster Pussy ?!!!! In this day and Age Protesting in this matter does little to nothing to stir the masses it was intended bother in the first place . The proper way to get what they want in a city like New York would be going the Administrative route . Go bitch and complain to the Local pols. they voted into power . I wonder if they could get some of them fine spanish mami's to join this effort ? It would do wonders for the viewing party they really want .

More hipster shenanigans! I am not too excited to see their soy-based skinny bodies in the buff, how can you even tell the sexes apart? I hope the NYPD is out in force to kick some asses literally!

"The main concern is the safety of our kids. There are lot of institutions and families on that Bedford Avenue stretch, and we are always really concerned about the kids being picked up and dropped off. There are sometimes small accidents where the cyclists are violating the law because they don't stop for flashing school buses." -- this is bullshit. the aforementioned busses are incredibly dangerous. the bus drivers have no idea how to drive! i've seen them drive at least 40 - 50 mph down flushing, and i've seen them bang u-turns in the middle of very busy intersections. the idea that the hassidic community is now making this an issue about the safety of their children is insane. the real problem here is bloomberg trading the safety of one group (bikers) for the political allegiance of another. he made this problem, and he should (though he probably wont) step up to the plate and fix the mess he's created. if he doesn't, it's going to get ugly. the whole situation is embarrassing. our mayor is pathetic and stupid.

...and, to get back to the point and to be completely honest, there is a legitimate point of safety here. I have witnessed a FEW careless accidents during my morning commute. Yes, sometimes they are due to the lack of skills of an inexperienced or dangerous cyclist. But sometimes they are due to the wanton carelessness of parents allowing their children to run into the street before the bus has stopped. And sometimes it is due to the AMAZINGLY unsafe ways these buses throw themselves back and forth the avenue, flooring the gas into the bike lane from the far lane of traffic and slamming on the breaks at the drop of a tall furry cakebox hat.

Being ANY vehicle in the New York City commute is a dangerous proposition at best. Especially on a road like Bedford Avenue, Stretching from Emmons Avenue in Sheepshead Bay - running Brooklyn's version magnetic north - all the way to Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint. It runs through a dozen neighborhoods, an amazing display of diversity. Amazing.

Anyone who would accept the argument that this is about the clothes some floozies wear while riding their jalopies, without entertaining the possibility that there is legitimate danger for anyone traveling on Bedford Avenue is is a racist.

If this is a cultural diversity issue then we're totally screwed. Responsibility on the road is everyone's job, regardless of what silly clothes they wear.

This amount of hype and talk over this bike lane removal is preposterous.

I started hearing about protests, and how upset riders were over the removal of the bike lane. I couldn't figure out what everyone was talking about. I was still riding in my little white line of protection, daily, so what was everyone talking about?

The city no longer designates these blocks as a bike lane. So they removed the little white-guy-on-a-bike image from the lane. Is there still a line separating me from vehicular traffic? Yes. Does that protect me any less now that it doesn't have a pictograph? No. How much does a bike lane protect us anyway? You're generally safer riding aggressively and taking a lane.

I know Heather, and god, I hope her quote is taken out of context. The hassids settled on this particular stretch of land because no one else wanted to live there. That was true for most of the last century (My grandmother grew up on s 2nd and Havemeyer). Just because the neighborhood has become fashionable does not mean it's history or community disappears. To hold a protest like this on the Sabbath not only fails to make any sort of point, it's intentionally insulting.



Forcing your point of view on a deep rooted, isolationist community most places in this city would earn you a well deserved brick to the head.

How sad that the racism against the Hasids has given the Bicyclists (whom are in the right) many additional allies!

As you can see, Tax Hike Mike Bloombag has really resolved the "race" issue like 100% of the right and left wing media insists. (It's like we're back in the 1950s, where evil reigns supreme but we just keep it in the closet and pretend things are swell.)

DON'T BE DISTRACTED, PEOPLE: this story is about several FEDERAL CRIMES by Crook Bloombag and his DoT cronies. (see First Amendment religious clause AND 14th Amendment's Equal Protection clause.)

ONLY THE JUSTICE DEPT (of Uncle Toms) should be asked about this bike lane and what Bloombag did.

If we fight each other, the REAL CRIMINAL gets away again.

CXB, I think I remember Dr. King riding to Selma naked on a two seater with Maurice Davis so there's precedent for this type of thing....

FYI: the BILL OF RIGHTS was here before the Hasids, so that argument doesn't add up.

They have a right to their religion, and their religion has ZERO RIGHTS to remove a bike lane or take away rights from anyone else.

If they don't like that, they can move to Israel, no?

If they don't like equality or neutrality on religion then they are idiots for living in a nation where that's (supposed to be) THE LAW.

Note that Iran also does not like scantily clad women everywhere!

"Just because the neighborhood has become fashionable does not mean it's history or community disappears."

Right, that's why we still have hippies in the Village, artists in Soho and punks on the Bowery.

Nice try.

You're talking fashion trends, I'm talking ghettos.

So a ghetto is a place with a history and community of bad fashion trends?

you're getting naked in public over a bike lane.

wake. up.