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Ride a Bike & Get the World’s Best Cookie Half-Price
While we're seeking great streets, we've found an exemplary store in Manhattan's Build a Green Bakery. This tiny East Village shop sells organic pastries, coffee and tea in an all-sustainable setting. The owner, City Bakery's Maury Rubin, made the space an environmentalists' showroom. He chose walls of wheat and sunflower husks and colored them with a milk-based paint. His floor is cork and his tabletop is responsibly-harvested bamboo, with recycled denim under the display counter. And get this: If you transport yourself to the store by bicycle, you get a 50% discount.
October 13, 2006
Eyes on the Street: MetroCard Bike
''The use of cycles has a place,'' Councilman John Liu recently told the Times. ''But it doesn't come anywhere near the capability of mass transit in making our city greener.''
October 12, 2006
Eyes on the Street: Prospect Park, Brooklyn
A Streetsblog tipster notices that Prospect Park motorists seem to be unindoctrinated in the ways of the Litterbug:
October 9, 2006
Eyes on the Street: Amsterdam
After Copenhagen, I visited Holland for a few days as a part of my German Marshall Fellowship. I will be writing more about some of the people I met and spoke with there, but for now I just wanted to share these photos from Amsterdam:
October 6, 2006
Eyes on the Street: German Bike Parking
Copenhagen is getting all the attention lately, but it's not the only livable European city with great cycling facilities.
October 5, 2006
Copenhagen: Texture
Eyes on the street in Copenhagen, Denmark -- literally. Evidence that a city is more than just a skyline:
October 3, 2006
Street Renaissance Antics on Atlantic Avenue
Yesterday was the Atlantic Antic, the annual, day-long festival along Brooklyn's Atlantic Avenue, in its 32nd year now. What a beautiful day. You'd be hard-pressed to find a place where as diverse a range of people and activities are brought together in such a natural and comfortable way:
September 18, 2006