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Achtung! NYC Drinking Water to Be Contaminated Soon?

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RR attended a showing of Gasland at the IFC last night and was shocked at the goings on around our drinking water upstate. Due to chicanery in the Dubya White House, oil and gas extractors as of 2005 have enjoyed a special exemption from the federal Clean Water Act – and now they’re pumping billions,… Continue Reading

Pedicab Princesses: Ride of the Day (ROTD)

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Three local lasses loaded up on an RR pedicab last night and lapped up their entire adventure from midtown to 15th St & 7th Avenue, where a manicure and pedicure awaited them and their clients. Each one thanked thoroughly their perspicacious pedicab peddler for convincing them to climb aboard, wondering aloud about why they’d failed… Continue Reading

Trouble in the Hamptons

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So Helen and I were cycling through Southampton for the very first time, curious of what the hub bub was all about – and we get stopped by a young gentleman in a light blue shirt telling us that we have to dismount our Bromptons because it’s illegal in the town center to ride a… Continue Reading

Do you believe in freedom?

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That is, the freedom to walk a pedicab over an NYC bridge (rather than load it into a gas-guzzling motor vehicle), in order to provide eco-positive passenger transport to the noble folk of the outer boroughs. If so, please attend a fundraiser Monday night, August 9, to help fund the legal battle to keep this… Continue Reading