Photographs by amolho4 on Flickr Reader Allan send us these photographs, which show that the Ghost Bike Memorial for Carl Nacht had been "knocked down and mangled, still attached to the sign post it was locked to. it looked like the sign post was cut down." A note had been left at the sign post, and Allan called the person, who believes Gray Line Duck vehicle knocked it down. Gray Line, however, told Allan......

Photo: Claire Houston Curious about the fate of all those orange bikes with the DKNY website that were locked up around town? The ones the police didn’t cart away (some were illegally chained to trees) are being picked clean for spare parts. The tone deaf Fashion Week publicity stunt was presented by DKNY as an effort to promote cycling in New York, and the company did help raise awareness by, uh, distributing bicycle maps in......

The orange bicycle DKNY.Com Guerilla marketing scheme, by Rollingrck at Flickr. DKNY is usurping a grassroots campaign to memorialize cyclists killed in New York City's traffic, with a guerrilla marketing campaign to push their product. Above is a picture of several orange-painted DKNY bikes, first widely noted at BikeBlog. DKNY, Donna Karan's more mid-priced clothing line, is behind the campaign. Its web site features ridiculously good looking people frolicking about lower Manhattan, sometimes on......

This Sunday, Time's Up! is organizing a 2006 Cyclist Memorial Ride that will honor all cyclists who were killed on NYC streets last year. There are two routes - one for Queens/Brooklyn/Manhattan and one for Bronx/Upper Manhattan - that will converge at West Houston and LaGuardia Place, where Derek Lake died in June and then visit other spots where cyclists were killed. More information after the jump; additionally, here's a list of Ghost Bike Memorials......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a jumper up on Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights, a stabbing in Harlem, and an airplane fire on taxi-way B at Laguardia. Chung Chu has put together a cool set of 3D images of NYC-- but you'll need those red-blue glasses to check them out. The Times has a short piece and a moving gallery of photos of the Ghost Bike project: "According to the Department of Transportation, 109......

After three biker deaths in three weeks, New York City cyclists are mad as hell-- and they're not going to take it anymore. At least, that's what they said to Mayor Bloomberg at their protest on the city hall steps this morning. Streetsblog has a good report from the scene: This morning, in what is almost becoming a sad early summer ritual, one hundred cyclists, gathered on the steps of City Hall after the......

- Looking at the this years tax returns for the folks who would be Governor. - That mother who pimped her daughters? Yeah, she now refuses to speak to them saying she pities their John, a father-of-six attorney. - After its owner had fallen off and died, the Ghost Bike continued riding down the LIE... - Howell Raines wants you to know: His new book is about sport fishing and the "unpredictability of luck."......