Comments on: Easy Riders: Brooklyn Critical Mass Rolls With the NYPD

By: steveo

steveo — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 02:38:54 +0000

Nicolo —

What if I want to see a police station without cars parked all over the sidewalk? Now that’s a tall order.

By: galvoguy

galvoguy — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:13:01 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gk1dxKJrls

ok lets try a link

By: galvoguy

galvoguy — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:11:30 +0000

this video is about 4 minutes long, the last 2 minutes show quite a bit of police cooperation along the ride including corking and traffic control.

By: futurebird

futurebird — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:56:23 +0000

What a great post! Brooklyn is where it’s at! The city should stop making Manhattan cops chase bikers around every month. This shows that it can work out peacefully.

By: Nicolo Macchiavelli

Nicolo Macchiavelli — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:51:24 +0000

If you want to see Brooklyn cops parking on the sidewalk indiscriminately try Union and Henry precinct house.

By: rich

rich — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 03:23:29 +0000

thanks for posting this but there are a few errors i would like to comment on.

first the aug 2004 ride saw more than 5000 riders. at least that was the police estimate, which is usually the lowest estimate.

second, one hundred riders did not meet at grand army plaza. there are two meeting points for brooklyn critical mass. one in grand army plaza, and one on the brooklyn side of the williamsburg bridge. when both groups met up at parkside ave, there were over one hundred riders.

numbers have never been that important to me, but i just thought id put that out there.

thanks for the article. . . and thanks for the wonderful blog

By: drewo

drewo — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 21:26:32 +0000

Wow. Please tell me how I can find this mythical “Brooklyn” place where the police demonstrate courtesy, professionalism and respect.

By: andrew

andrew — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 20:46:22 +0000

perhaps a bit of conspiracy theory.
Perhaps Bloomburg doesnt want any disruption to his fortune 500 filled Manhattan. Where the sign of a good economy is traffic choked streets. I mean is he the mayor of the outer boroughs anyway?

By: moxieb

moxieb — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 18:28:02 +0000

I rode with the Brooklyn Critical Mass on August 11th to cheer on Shamar Porter’s Little League team. It was really touching to overhear a policeman tell a rider “thank you for saying thank you.” Can’t imagine I’d overhear that in Manhattan.