(Varick Street near the intersection with Dominick)

A cyclist is seriously injured today after colliding with a barrier on Varick Street near the Holland Tunnel. DNAinfo reports that the unidentified man was headed south on Varick Street around 2:30 p.m. when he tried to make a right turn onto Dominick Street. But there was a divider in the middle of the street that the cyclist either didn't see or underestimated, and he went down hard on the pavement.

"He was spitting up blood like a volcano," a witness tells DNAinfo. The cyclist's condition is currently unknown but an FDNY spokesman tells us, "We don't know if he was hit by a car, or hit something, but I can confirm that an injured cyclist, in his late 20s-30s, was reported to be having seizures and taken to Bellevue." We'll update as more information becomes available.