Eyes on the Street: Horse Lane?

By Glenn McAnanama
Apr 16, 2007

West 90th Street Bike Lane between Columbus and Central Park West

This is one use of the new bike lane on W. 90th Street that I did not expect to see. I’ll leave it to someone else to submit this to MyBikeLane.com.

Photo by Glenn McAnanama

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