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When I rode up alongside Karen and struck up a conversation, she was riding on Lexington on her way to a volunteer shift at the main branch of the New York Public Library. Karen had already (gladly!) agreed to do a portrait and I was looking for a decent location, when she slowed down next to a hotel entrance – the Shelburne on 37th and Lex. Through sheer coincidence, we had arrived at a meaningful place.<\/div>\n
Karen explained that when she was young her father worked as a manager at the Shelburne – she practically grew up on the property. “When I was about 5, my father got a call at the desk. They asked him could he please go pick up his daughter, who was dangling her legs out of a fifth story window.”\u00a0When Karen was 10, her father passed away and the family moved to Stuyvesant Town, where she first started riding a bike. Her current ride is this 1962 Schwinn cruiser given to her by her super (he found it in a basement).\u00a0“Some people are really impressed when they see it – ‘Oh, you have even have the original saddle!’ I had no idea – I just call it a seat.”<\/div>\n
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How long have you used a bike for transport in New York?<\/div>\n
“Let me think, and I might reveal my age here.. I’m not even going to count riding around Stuyvie Town as a kid, because I wasn’t really going anywhere. About forty-five years. I have a photo of me with my bike and my daughter, who is 43 now, on the back of it.”<\/div>\n

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Has the experience changed much during that time?<\/div>\n
“Actually, it’s mostly the same. It’s still a huge city of 8 million people. I do wish there were more bike lanes. I ride\u00a0everywhere.\u00a0I’m devastated when it snows and I have to ride the bus with people sneezing and coughing on me!”<\/div>\n

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What’s your favorite thing about biking in NYC?<\/div>\n
“You meet people. It’s just a more humane way of being in the city.”<\/div>\n
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Even now, Karen hasn’t lost her connection to the hotel business; she leads\u00a0weekly guided tours of the Waldorf Astoria.<\/div>\n
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The #BikeNYC Project now has its own Facebook page. Go to there!<\/a><\/div>\n
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