The Cycling City:
Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890’s

Wednesday, April 6th, 2016, 6:30-8 PM
Martin E. Segal Theater

While bicycles seem to be everywhere these days, their heyday was a century ago, and New York was arguably the cycling city. Thousands upon thousands cruised the city’s newly paved streets, its parks, and its world-famous bicycle paths, day and night. It was home to more bicycles, more cycling amenities, and was more infused with a bicycle culture than anywhere else in the world. It was a particular place at a particular time in which bicycles, like never before or after, shaped American cities. Historian and GC alum Evan Friss will discuss this new book of the same title.