Hipster vs. Hasid: Turf war 2009 – Bike lanes!
Scantily clad hipster cyclists attracted to the Brooklyn neighborhood made it difficult, the Hasids said, to obey religious laws forbidding them from staring at members of the opposite sex in various states of undress. These riders also were disobeying the traffic laws, they complained.
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But Baruch Herzfeld, who has tried to bridge the gap between hipsters and Hasids with a bike-rental program, said safety is not the issue so much as xenophobia.
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UPDATE: Video of the clandestine hipsters repainting the bike lanes. What’s confusing is that the music choice for the video doesn’t sound like Wolfmother or School of Seven Bells or even Asobi Seksu… is it ironic?
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