On Bicycles - A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City

Evan Friss traces the colorful and fraught history of bicycles¿and bicyclists¿in New York City. He uncovers the bicycle¿s place in the city over time, showing how the bicycle has served as a mirror of the city¿s changing social, economic, infrastructural, and cultural politics.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Rough Start
2. Up and Down
3. Moses
4. The Ban
5. Bloomberg
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

About the author

Evan Friss is an associate professor of history at James Madison University. He is the author of The Cycling City: Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s (2015). He used to pedal around New York City, but now lives in Virginia with his family.

Summary

Evan Friss traces the colorful and fraught history of bicycles—and bicyclists—in New York City. He uncovers the bicycle’s place in the city over time, showing how the bicycle has served as a mirror of the city’s changing social, economic, infrastructural, and cultural politics.

Additional text

What we should take away from this illuminating history is that the bicycle has endured. Indeed, a new golden age may be on the horizon.

Product details

• Authors: Evan Friss, Friss Evan
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9780231182577
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18257-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; New York, History: specific events & topics, HISTORY / Modern / General, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Bicycling, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, cycling, History: specific events and topics, History of the Americas, Cycle racing, New York (state)