On a sunny Saturday morning in Park Slope, Brooklyn, a stretch of 4th Street that had been closed to cars was brimming with bikes.
All around Washington Park, bicycles leaned against each other, spokes sparkling. Sleek modern carbon fiber frames and janky old refurbished bikes of all sizes. Single speed bikes, 10-speed bikes, road bikes and commuter bikes in a rainbow of bright colors.
Men, women and children gawked and browsed. People wheeled bikes down the sidewalk, up the street and through the gathered crowd. A vintage pickup truck pulled up, its flatbed crammed with more bicycles, a jangle of angles and handlebars jutting toward the sky.
It was the 16th year of the New York Bike Jumble, a twice-yearly bicycle flea market attended by bike enthusiasts, bike messengers and casual bike riders. Attendance has grown steadily in recent years — along with New Yorkers’ interest in cycling of all sorts.
Since the Covid pandemic, the number of people who bike to work in large cities has been increasing, with New York City leading the way.
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