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Feel the Love: Brooklyn Critical Mass
A StreetFilm by Clarence Eckerson
Running Time: 3 minutes 51 seconds

How about this: A Critical Mass bike ride, without arrests or unrest. In Brooklyn this has been the scene for three years running. Check out the NYPD getting along with the 150-or-so cyclists who ventured out last Friday to celebrate their right to be the traffic.

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