Nail-Biting Livestreams of New York City Bike Commutes

Words alone are inadequate to the task of depicting an average bike commute in New York.

“It’s almost comical,” says Christopher Robbins, an editor at Gothamist whose daily commute (video below) involves a 2.5 mile ride from the Lower East Side to DUMBO, in Brooklyn. “You’re going down Canal Street and there’s a construction site next to a woman pushing a shopping cart full of pineapples next to a box truck covered in graffiti; there are all the cars and the casino buses and the people double-parked outside the fire station.” And then, at the on-ramp to the Manhattan Bridge, there are the fellow cyclists, flying off the blind curve, oblivious in their delight at making it out of the thunderous tunnel that runs parallel to the subway tracks over the East River.