Welcome. The "Classic And Vintage" subforum is quite active on this board, you'll enjoy the wealth of information there-- the local favorite seems to be post war through 1980's classic road, touring, and randonneur bikes. NYC advocacy and safety issues come up in the Advocacy subforum all the time. I moved out of the city just before the bike lanes went in...!
Enjoy the forum and Welcome! Joe
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The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. Christopher Morley