NYPD Warns Bicyclists, Gang Using Traps to Beat, Rob Riders

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2412612/NYPD-tells-cyclists-Manhattan-beware-gang-sets-BOOBY-TRAPS-catch-rob-riders-Hudson-river-path.html

Manhattan gang setting BOOBY TRAPS to attack and rob cyclists along Hudson river path
By JAMES NYE
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 11:11 EST, 5 September 2013 | UPDATED: 12:13 EST, 5 September 2013

Protecting Benches From Mean People

This thoughtful gentleman placed his bike in front of  bench in order to protect it from  mean people who might sit on it. Whole Foods store on River Street in Cambridge MA has a number of bicycle fixtures to lock bikes about 20 feet from this bench for people. But often bike riders those thoughful public spirited environmentalists park and sometimes lock their bikes to this bench. Once it was a Harvard University student who said what this man said, "It was only for a moment." Ah, yes the moment in which I think only of myself and everyone else be damned. How often is it small inconsiderate events like this that escalate into full blown violence?







After the bike was moved the woman seen here in pink sat on the bench after shopping in the store.

New York City FEB 28 - MAR 2 2011

Views of Jackie Gleason statue (Ralph Kramden), New York Times building, New York City main Post Office, Eighth Avenue (41st Street to 33rd Street), Manhattan, New York City, New Yorker Hotel, Empire State Building, Bike Lanes, Columbia University, Alma Mater, Broadway (116th Street to 79th Street), New York Public Library branch.

Cambridge Cafe Blocks Sidewalk, Bike Lane

These images captured on Tuesday September 8, 2009 at about 5:00 PM shows a delightful European style Cambridge MA cafe taking up most of the sidewalk near Porter Square on Mass Avenue. Pedestrians are limited to one person at a time to pass by this enormous structure on the sidewalk. Two images show foliage hanging into the street blocking part of the bicycle lane forcing cyclists to ride nearer to traffic at this very dangerous intersection. On my way home a young man approached me asking "Did you get your picture?" Later that night a suspected employee of this cafe was at my building residence harassing me because of "business reasons." Are Cambridge restaurants out of control or what? This was a clear violation of the MA Civil Rights statute MGL Ch. 265 Sec. 37, and if he was as suspected working also for the police a First Amendment violation. To discourage more revealing photos a suspected associate of the man made threats saying "You will be hit." Are these members of organized crime making threats or police acting like criminals? But in Cambridge and Massachusetts where laws are optional what does that matter? Cambridge won an award for the most walkable city.

This image looks toward Harvard Square at Porter Square.

This image looks toward North Cambridge from Porter Square.

Roy Bercaw Speaks to City Council February 12 2007

Speaking as the Chief Ethical Advisor and Ultimate Moral Authority for the Mid Cambridge Chapter of the American Council on Mendacity, Roy Bercaw presents an award to the City as the Most Mendacious City. He comments on the City Manager taking land on Gore Street by eminent domain without and notice to taxpayers. Bercaw asks about Be Curious Day in the city schools.He suggests the only way to rid the city of rodents is by banning people and food. Limiting the city to Biotech Companies and alcohol would work. He reports that the District Attorney issued an opinion that the Green Room where the City Councilors (but no poor citizens) dine on taxpayer dimes, is not part of the Council Chambers for voting. Regarding bicycle racks in Central Square Bercaw suggests removing sidewalks to make room for more racks. He asks why the City Manager asks for over time appropriations for the Water Department for medical expenses. How can he know the future? Bercaw asks what benefits the viewers get for the $850,000 that CCTV gets from the City each year plus private donations.

Bicycle and Plow Hazard

[Someone removed the metal plate at Broadway and Prescott Street over the weekend of March 1,2, 2008]

A metal plate 30 inches by 40 inches one inch thick was dropped on Broadway near Prescott Street after the snow storm on February 22, 2008. It is a hazard for bicycles and for snow plows. Snow is expected on Friday February 29, 2008.

October 29 2007 Roy Bercaw Speaks to Cambridge, MA City Council

Speaking as the Mid Cambridge Chapter of the Emergency Committee to Protect White Males from Abuses of Power by Black Racist Harvard University Police and from Racist Harvard Lawyers Pretending to be Civil Rights Attorneys, Bercaw asserts "I am not from Burma. I'm an American citizen." He asks, "Does the Council still wonder why there so much violence?" He asks why there is so much concern (Policy Order # 12) about a temporary occupancy permit. He suggests that the Council learn how to speak the Newspeak language where words mean whatever and often the opposite. In support of Committee Report # 1, Bercaw suggests that lawyers be provided to patients of the OB-GYN clinic on Windsor Street in case of negligence. He also urges that patients be provided foot massages as they travel to the clinic in their taxpayer funded taxis. He wonders why after all these years the Council needs a workshop on Parliamentary Procedure (Policy Order # 4). He says learning the rules will just cause the councilors to be be upset when they violate the rules and other laws. Regarding policy Orders # 5 and # 22, Bercaw suggests banning pedestrians and removing sidewalks to make room for bicycles and parking.