My New Bike

I’ve been making the occasional appearance at my office for a few weeks now, and I’ve noticed that there are signs of NYC groaning back to life after our COVID-forced slumber. While the paper has been talking about it, a much more visceral metric has been experiencing the steady uptick in crowds at brunch and passengers in subway cars. Steadily, morning commute-hour trips have seen ever-fuller train cars — nothing like the packed train cars I once knew, but the seats are full and the standing areas are occupied.

“I don’t want to go back to that,” I thought.

So I’m not! Instead I ordered a beautiful Elliston three-speed from the good folks at State Bicycles in Tempe, AZ.

So far, I’ve been learning the commute through the neighborhood, through Central Park, and across a few avenues of Midtown East to my office. It’s been enjoyable. I leave early on these mornings and afternoons to try to avoid the bulk (literally?) of traffic on the way.

Lauren ordered a bike as well, so when it gets here we’ll have a beautiful velocipede summer together.