{"id":13782,"date":"2014-01-03T15:27:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T15:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=13782"},"modified":"2014-01-03T15:27:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T15:27:03","slug":"new-yorker-on-a-boris-bike-battles-the-city-snowfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/new-yorker-on-a-boris-bike-battles-the-city-snowfall\/","title":{"rendered":"New Yorker on a Boris Bike battles the city snowfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13786\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/new-yorker-on-a-boris-bike-battles-the-city-snowfall\/new-york-snow-01\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/new-york-snow-01.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,349\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"New Yorker on a Boris Bike battles the snowstorms down 1st Avenue\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/new-york-snow-01.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13786\" alt=\"New Yorker on a Boris Bike battles the snowstorms down 1st Avenue\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/new-york-snow-01.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/new-york-snow-01.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/new-york-snow-01-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/new-york-snow-01-195x110.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Seen on the Lower East Side this morning was this hardy New Yorker riding the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/americas\/new-york-boris-bikes-get-a-manhattan-transfer-8660144.html\" target=\"_blank\">US equivalent<\/a> of a &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/londons-boris-bikes-speed-past-their-first-birthday-tfl-celebrate-with-a-feast-ofacts\/\">Boris Bike<\/a>&#8216; down the snow covered streets.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"New Yorker on a Boris Bike battles the snowstorms down 1st Avenue\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/new-york-snow-02.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our intrepid New York reporter Jim P braved the freezing temperatures to capture this series of photographs taken between\u00a0East 11th Street between Second and Third Avenue.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13784\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/new-yorker-on-a-boris-bike-battles-the-city-snowfall\/new-york-snow-03\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/new-york-snow-03.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,391\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"New Yorker on a Boris Bike battles the snowstorms down 1st Avenue\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/new-york-snow-03.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13784\" style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" alt=\"New Yorker on a Boris Bike battles the snowstorms down 1st Avenue\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/new-york-snow-03.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/new-york-snow-03.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/new-york-snow-03-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, the streets are all but deserted apart from the lone cyclist and the snow plough heading her way at some speed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"New Yorker on a Boris Bike battles the snowstorms down 1st Avenue\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/new-york-snow-04.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"462\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, the lady managed to avoid being flattened by the snow plough and can be seen heading off into the distance.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in downtown Brixton, there&#8217;s not a speck of snow to be seen &#8211; just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brixtonbuzz.com\/2014\/01\/high-winds-and-rain-buffer-brixton-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">endless rain and high winds<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seen on the Lower East Side this morning was this hardy New Yorker riding the US equivalent of a &#8216;Boris Bike&#8216; down the snow covered streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56,17,193],"tags":[747,1199,385,1193],"class_list":["post-13782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-photos","category-places","tag-lower-east-side","tag-new-york","tag-nyc","tag-snow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/new-york-snow-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-3Ai","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13788,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13782\/revisions\/13788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}