Re: The East Side Greenway Is Bullshit

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They stole your "t"? Animals!


Posted by: Von Wafer | Link to this comment | 03-12-12 7:08 PM
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She's jus' adopting the slang of today, daddy-o.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 03-12-12 7:10 PM
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For instance (a random Google result).


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 03-12-12 7:12 PM
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Welcome to the state of most "bike" paths anywhere. Twice the pedestrians of sidewalks with half the upkeep of roads.


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 03-12-12 7:13 PM
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Poodles are the worst part of any post-apocalyptic hellscape.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 03-12-12 7:23 PM
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I think I used to run on part of this, battery park to roughly 50th street, and I remember lots of pathway, and nothing post-apocalyptic at all. I guess there were a lot of points where you were sort of forced onto the street or under bridges or whatever. Maybe the roads were rough and I never noticed b/c on foot.


Posted by: Robert Halford | Link to this comment | 03-12-12 7:25 PM
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I tried it once (riding downtown) and couldn't figure out how to get back on it at some point where it vanished pretty far uptown and gave up, crossed over to the west side path.


Posted by: Mister Smearcase | Link to this comment | 03-12-12 8:59 PM
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Does a lot of weird stuff happen around the UN or the Queensboro? I've mostly dealt with it either above or below that.


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 03-13-12 5:48 AM
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You're on streets from 36th to the Queensboro: right past the Midtown Tunnel you get on First, take First up past the UN (which is complicated-traffic-o-riffic, but not that bad.) At 55th (I think) you dodge right onto Sutton Place, and then in a couple more blocks you've got a pedestrian overpass that gets you back to the poodle and old-people-with-walkers (who I bear no malice toward) infested hell that is Bobby Wagner Walk.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 03-13-12 7:07 AM
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Poodles are the worst part of any post-apocalyptic hellscape.

Nonsense. They make a welcome change from the cans of beans in your shopping trolley.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 03-13-12 7:26 AM
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The route sounds a bit like the chase scene in Point Break.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 03-13-12 8:53 AM
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Hipster-ass Hipster Bike for Hipsters

"This bike will get you laid. If you ride this bike around Audobon Park at 1 in the morning without pants on, dudes will literally knock you off of your bike to try to blow you. This bike is a freewheel fixed gear, because you're a fucking monster and you have one speed, and that speed is +/- 15mph. A seat comes with the bike, but is not pictured. If you want, you can ride the bike without the seat to simulate the stick you have up your ass about which Pavement album is best."


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 03-13-12 9:57 AM
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freewheel fixed gear

Sigh.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 03-13-12 10:01 AM
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I just last week had my steel frame bike welded in the same spot this guy fixed. Apparently a common failure mode.


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 03-13-12 10:21 AM
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13: I know, right? Totally ruined it.


Posted by: x.trapnel | Link to this comment | 03-13-12 11:20 AM
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I just signed a lease for an apartment that is half a block on the wrong side of the tracks neighborhood-dividing street. I am also thinking I will get a poodle once I move in.


Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 03-13-12 5:56 PM
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