Final Installment of Summer Streets

I am so glad I participated in all three installments of Summer Streets. I fell into the first one accidentally, but loved it immediately.

This week me and Malaika established a meet-up spot, so other people could easily locate us and hang out. This was a good solution, because last week I missed people. Summer Streets is busy!

Kristina, Maureen, Sheryl, Malaika and Me! And a very cute Jen with a black Linus Dutchie stopped by briefly.


And Julian sporting a really cute houndstooth man-pouch. It's contents match my little bicycle cosmetic pouch of supplies.

After hanging out in the Whole Foods picnic area and eating free snacks, some of us rode down to my favorite summer spot, that sadly, is closing at the end of the month - Imperial Woodpecker Sno-Balls!


I was a little nervous leading people on a ride. It was short, but still. This was a BIG FIRST.
Usually I'm just leading my husband around.

Reggie & Kristina are a very neat couple. They had a costume party Halloween wedding for gosh-sakes!
Kristina's Schwinn Wayfarer is a model that has caught my eye before. It's a very cute bike.

Kim is a Londoner, who is new to biking in the city. We pushed her boundaries and I hope she's proud that she rode on streets without bike lanes.


Me and Malaika again, used the West Side Greenway to get home. We had outfits to plan to celebrate Sheryl's birthday later that evening.

How We Do Summer Streets

Two Summer Streets Saturdays down - only one to go - and it appears that we just ride downtown, meet-up with my #BikeNYC friends, hang out, take pics then ride off to get something delicious to eat, go home.

Dmitry took the best couple-photo of us. Ooh la la!

See all of his Summer Streets portraits on Flickr.  

We bailed out of the protection of Summer Streets to use the broke-down bike lane on Grand Street going to Doughut Plant.

I got a tip from Sharon's NYC Taught Me blog. She's mostly dealing with children- but I think like a 7 year old girl, so her advice helps me. 


We passed 4 different flavors back and forth to each other like maniacs and shared a Thai iced tea. 

GET READY FOR SOME CRUNKNESS BECAUSE AFTER DOUGHNUTS WE GOT SNO-BALLS! 

I've had Imperial Woodpecker Sno-Balls four times this week. I met the sweet little owner and we swapped southern-accent-love for one another. I did not tell her I've had four sno-balls this week. 

Matt went nuts and got ice cream inside his shave-ice/sno-ball! He had root beer & ice cream flavors with real ice cream tucked inside. Dopeness. 

We felt sick as hell from all the sugar, but we had to get our ill-selves home for an emergency nap and Summer Streets turn back into danger alleys at 1pm so we used the West Side Greenway of Love to get home. 

Next weekend is going to go down a lot like this too. Yaaay SummerTime! 


I suffered so many snowy, wintry bike rides...


Like this 24º commute and this snowy New Year's Eve spin around the city.

Summer Streets

I found out Summer Streets is bad ass. Car-free streets are a real treat and I'll be doing this again next Saturday. I went to give something to Liz (right,) hung out a little while, met Ross and then Sheryl and Amanda showed up.


This photo shows that our little gang is meant to be, because we represent a variety of slut-shirts: We've got see-thru, itty-bitty and choppy-trashy. All the slut-shirt bases are covered.


I got into it at 72nd Street, immediately felt the amazing warm blanket of a car-free street and really enjoyed myself down to 23rd street. I got off here to attempt to see some galleries in Chelsea.


I would never ride here but Summer Streets treated us with this opportunity.
I don't know what this is called - It's the upper-roadway around Grand Central. I actually avoid biking around Grand Central for the most part. 

I found some gorgeous wild flowers in Chelsea. I spent a little time there. There were big bumble bees and butterflies in there! I don't see that stuff much in NYC. I've never been so delighted to see a bumble bee!




I had a power-snack then found out the galleries I wanted to see were on summer hours. Bust!

Yep- I was trying to see the Jill Greenberg show - Glass Ceiling. Luckily, I am on summer hours at work myself and will catch it on Friday.

For the first time I felt the courage to go into Commes De Garcon.

I sprayed my tote bag with perfume! I felt like I was 12 again.

Then I went to get an Imperial Woodpecker Sno-Ball. I had half Peaches & Cream (my mom's favorite) and half coconut cream.


This was a good summer Saturday for sure, and I realized I'm getting much better at navigating the West Village. Maybe I'll get sick of bicycle exploring Manhattan and branch out to Brooklyn more.