Transportation
Beyoncé, Bike Commuter
The superstar rode to her last Barclays show, setting off a flurry of excitement.
She was just another New Yorker biking across the Brooklyn Bridge on a pleasant summer afternoon. Except let’s get real, she wasn’t just another New Yorker. She was Beyoncé, on her way to the last of her sold-out shows at the Barclays Center on Flatbush Avenue. And when she posted pictures of her trip on two wheels on her Instagram account, people went a little nuts.
"Gets It: Beyoncé Bikes to Barclays" was the headline at Streetsblog, the city’s main source of news about safer streets (where I used to work a few years back). The #bikenyc hashtag on Twitter lit up with excitement. Deputy mayor Howard Wolfson tweeted the news, as did the city’s department of transportation.