{"id":2164,"date":"2007-03-02T09:40:08","date_gmt":"2007-03-02T17:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/03\/manhattan_pastoral.html"},"modified":"2007-03-02T09:40:08","modified_gmt":"2007-03-02T17:40:08","slug":"manhattan_pasto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/manhattan_pasto.html","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan Pastoral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While so many discount them without even trying them, William Neuman actually negotiates a fare and pronounces the machines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/03\/02\/nyregion\/02pedicabs.html?ex=1330491600&#038;en=131329c9fa8c30e1&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">&#8220;oddly bucolic&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>You feel every jolt and bump of the potholed streets. You feel a communion with the pigeons that swoop down and dart just overhead. A yellow parade of taxicabs rushes by close enough to touch. A double-decker bus looms suddenly alongside, seeming, in contrast to your puny status, like a skyscraper on wheels. Look up, and the real skyscrapers soar above you.<\/p>\n<p>But for all its urban grittiness, there is something oddly bucolic about seeing New York from the back of a pedicab. It reduces this most bustling of cities to human-powered speed. There&#8217;s an almost tranquil feeling as you float lazily through traffic: Huck and Jim on a raft.<\/p>\n<p>It is a feeling that the fellow pedaling the bike seems to share as well. &#8220;It&#8217;s a great gig,&#8221; Sean Devin, a veteran pedicab driver, said yesterday as he pedaled down Fifth Avenue south of Central Park. &#8220;You&#8217;re outside all the time. You start when you want, quit when you want, take whatever days off you want. You&#8217;re pretty much your own boss. It&#8217;s one of the last bohemian jobs left.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the unfettered world of pedicabs is about to change. . . .<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While so many discount them without even trying them, William Neuman actually negotiates a fare and pronounces the machines &#8220;oddly bucolic&#8221;: You feel every jolt and bump of the potholed streets. You feel a communion with the pigeons that swoop down and dart just overhead. A yellow parade of taxicabs rushes by close enough to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manhattan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}