Bike Riders Crowding Bedford Avenue! (In 1896)

don't forget camel jockey power

And these rather silly people actually believe that the bicycle is the wave of the future and will replace the horse as the common mode of transportation. But even 110 years from now, when all sorts of wonders will be part of people's everyday life the horse will still reign supreme. Because there is nothing that can beat horse power.

>>>Egads, behold these infernal hip-sters clogging Bedford Avenue with their fixed-gear "safety bicycles."

And no cars. A Jeannette Sadik-Khan paradise! Perhaps, JSK needs a time machine.

www.forgotten-ny..com

Cheese akes it better, in fact... There are different types of Amish Swiss which have been perfected by the Amish in different areas all around the country. The most commercially popular is a longhorn shaped Swiss cheese which develops small lace-like eyes. It is creamier in texture than regular Swiss cheese.

for the record, the key word that got my initial post held was r4p3.

and i note that about 6 hours later, still not posted.

Okay, look, all this babble about your posts being held is totally off-topic and has now amounted to twice the annoyance about the now-deleted stuff that it was in response to. Personally I'd be happy if Gothamist deleted the new babble (including this current reply that I'm posting right now).

Keep it on-topic.

That photo isn't from 1896 - that was taken earlier today - those are the bartenders from Rye, Hotel Delmano, Huckleberry Bar, Walter Foods and The Richardson on their way to work.

and those of us actually from here still gotta face the scrutiny...

nah man, i am not from michigan, will you please toast that bagel for me, thanks!

=v= When is @thefacts going to pop in and complain that this was caused by Transportation Alternatives and their stranglehold on city government?

It's amazing they're all going in the same direction considering one-way streets didn't even exist until the automobile completely changed the foot/horse/bike pace of the street. When you're pulling a cart of goods, going all the way around the block is a pretty exhausting experience.

Not so amazing. Self-regulating traffic might be more efficient.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,448747,00.html

"European Cities Do Away with Traffic Signs"

it wouldnt hurt for some of those ladies....and guys, to put some pants on i must say.

Oh, don't get your knicker(bocker)s in a bunch.

...like a chicken that smells blood.

this thread is like all dada now that felix got the hook and the comments are orphaned.

i hope he gets some "much needed rest".

woah, my comment was held for approval??? wtf?

note to self, either using f3L1x or S0d0my or r4p3 in your post get's your comment held for approval...

test sodomy

test felix

I had no idea what was happening until this. Thanks.

Trust me. Even with felix's original comments intact, you wouldn't have understood it. All he was doing was spamming this story with all sorts of completely irrelevant links. He wasn't even pretending to be relevant.

ANCIENT HIPSTERS!

who you callin' ancient?

"ohio is now midwest?"

Uh... yeah. Always has been; likely always will be.

http://www.census.gov/geo/www/us_regdiv.pdf

youre not kidding, I think some water got in the works

Please go away. You should be banned from this site.

Most likely on their way to one of their oh-so-keen darkened grog-houses or nickelodeons that only show indy zoetropes.

=v= Imagine the 1896 hipsters drinking a local microbrew craft beer named Rheingold Extra Dry, and they couldn't be ironic about it! The 1896 hipsters in Milwaukee had it even worse, of course.

I think I see an American Apparel side boob ad on that trolley car.

Damn bicyclists parking in the trolley lane...

heh.

see, now that's snark put to good use.

thank you for committing, JDS.

Love,

Wiley Ignatius Norvell

Fucking hipsters with their stupid fixed gear horses and shit.

"a sight that's certain to scandalize the local Hasidim" - There's no elbow showing, nor any leg and none of the clothing is tight so we're good. Carry on.

=v= You can't tell from this angle, but that babe is showing off some serious ankle. I need a cold shower.

Actually, that should read: Fucking hipsters with their stupid fixed gears and *horseshit*.

one of my favorite posts i have ever read here.

As a recent OH to BK transplant, I definitely lol'd at the final sentence. Reminiscent of the time a tiny furious Polish man at Radegast told me "Go back to Ohio or wherever in the fuckin Midwest you're from, fuckin yuppie!"

I was like, damn dude! Good guess!

THIS IS AWESOME.

i hate and tolerate jds all in the same article.

except these people were actual new yorkers

By any possible definition of "actual New Yorkers," many do ride bikes. And always have, as this photo helps to attest. The current "wave" of increased cycling has been going on since the 70's. It's hardly a hipster fad.

moving straight to williamsburg stopped being 'new york' in around 1997.

this is like a chinese guy moving to chinatown to experience america.

"except these people were actual new yorkers"

New Yorkers! Then they shouldn't have been allowed to ride on the streets of the City of Brooklyn. Go back to New York!

Nah, European transplants.

The descendants of Dutch patroons and their families were known to to anonymously slander and recommend "returning from whence you came" the European transplants on the local chalk-board.