Author Archives: Eric Blair-Joannou

A wannabe-Copenhagener-real-New Yorker’s perspective on cycling culture in New York City and what the Big Apple can learn from spending time riding rapt over the bridges of the Danish capital. Biking across the harbors of King Christian IV may be just what the City’s citizenry should experience in order to see that simply riding a bicycle is all the American metropolis needs to do to upgrade its stagnant transit system. Follow Eric on Twitter too @clintonledyard .

Bike Share Program Eats Cars in NYC, Spits Them Out in Brooklyn

May 5, 2013 – 1:00 pm

  I got excited the other night and snapped these photos of the *sneaky* Citi bike people (they even have [...]

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CitiBike: Brooklyn Edition

April 27, 2013 – 10:39 am

There’s a lot of hype around NYC’s new CitiBike bike share program…I was recently forwarded this article by multiple people excited about [...]

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Biking for a more equitable society (sort of)

April 14, 2013 – 3:06 pm

I recently came across an article discussing a non-profit’s work with women cyclists in NYC…an effort to get explicitly women [...]

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It’s a bird…! It’s a plane…! It’s … a bike lane extension through an NYC construction site!!!!!!

March 3, 2013 – 4:22 pm

That was a Superman reference for anyone not familiar with the American comic. I snapped this photo today riding down [...]

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The hills are alive…with the sound of my disc-brakes

February 24, 2013 – 1:36 pm

Yep, feast your eyes. My *commanding* fleet of cykler parked right out on 5th Avenue (that’s the Central Park Zoo [...]

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Eric Blair-Joannou

A wannabe-Copenhagener-real-New Yorker's perspective on cycling culture in New York City and what the Big Apple can learn from spending time riding rapt over the bridges of the Danish capital. Biking across the harbors of King Christian IV may be just what the City's citizenry should experience in order to see that simply riding a bicycle is all the American metropolis needs to do to upgrade its stagnant transit system. Follow Eric on Twitter too @clintonledyard .