E bike? Then I assume just used false info to stay at hostel? Maybe they can track the roommates but those folks never likely looked twice at the guy since you try to carve your own space in hostels.
Two of my friends worked at that exact hostel 30 years ago. Even though it's the exact same location, it's a very different place now than in 1994.
Talked to one today and confirmed that they almost never had anyone older than 25 staying there then. (They worked/lived there, met lots of chicks.)
We don't actually know if he used an ebike. That was not true - he did not use a bike share ebike. The cops have said as much. But a lot of this trek is through the park which has almost no car access so he wasn't contending with traffic.
One of the great things about social media is that you'll read a post and be like "yeah, I agree with that, what's that poster's name," and then, "oh!"
Guns in New York City are strictly regulated. The killer did not get his gun in NYC and he definitely did not get the supressor here. They aren't legal in New York State. I know it's fun and easy to be glib about US gun laws but that's what they are LAWS with wide variation between states.
That's awesome, but until they stop people at state borders and search them for firearms, the lax laws in other states make it super-easy for gun crime to occur across the US.
It's a known issue. In New York most of the guns come from Virginia. In Chicago most of the guns come from Indiana. But the OP saying NY is going to ban bikes before they ban guns is just flat out wrong. And it's gross to "score points" in that way.
53rd & 6th to 85th & Central Park West in less than 20 minutes is **barely** more time than the train or a car (which take the same amount, fwiw). AND he had a nice ride through Central Park!
I love how they say he stayed at the hostel "in a room with two or three other men." Well, YEAH, that's how they work. It's doesn't mean he *knew* them. FFS. Good thing he didn't stay in the main men's dorm, or they'd think he's a cult leader or something.
Even I have stayed in a hostel with two or three men without knowing them; when you’re paying peanuts you just get a bunk and hope no one snores too loud
💯 I stayed in a number of hostels with others in Europe while traveling during a Study Abroad in the late 90’s and didn’t know the names of most of them; much less anything else.
Stayed in the women's dorm in Blantyre. My friend got very worried when she realised there was an old man in there. I guess he was someone's dad, too frail to be left alone. She panicked when she heard him mumbling. I listened and told her he was praying. Probably worried about all those women.
Citi bikes have GPS already. But I do agree that there are LOTS of reckless bike riders that have difficulty with traffic laws that might be better walking. Plenty of drivers have issues too.
You can have your own opinions on nyc bicyclists. I don’t agree that cyclists need controlling. I think cops will use this murder to increase unnecessary interactions with cyclists
nah, traffic laws exist mostly to restrict cars which are the real danger on the streets. as long as bikers are giving pedestrians and wheelchair users etc priority, they should be able to do basically whatever they want
Bicycles are very cheap and easy to store so it's going to be hard to impose a massive reduction Freedom like this to accommodate literally the least sympathetic group of people on the planet. You can only Press society so much before stuff stops working because everything's illegal
yeah. a car in manhattan probably gets its license plate picked up on CCTV 25-30 times per day. cars are legally tied to specific people. plus most cars have gps.
Shout out also for the International Student Centre, not far away at 38 W 88th St, where I stayed a long time ago (September 1980). Switched on the bathroom light in the middle of the night to be greeted by wall to wall cockroaches - millions of them (I'm sure it's much nicer now!).
Manhattan's grid system is real convenient. It gets a little muddy south of Houston. I loved walking to class by union square from 22nd street. Its a very easy borough to walk around too. I never made millions off the pain and suffering of vulnerable people so I wasn't shot then.
It was apparently from outdated information. From CNN:
"Earlier Wednesday, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joe Kenny said the suspect fled on a Citi Bike that had a GPS system. “We’re still tracking video. The last we see with him on that bike is in Central Park,” he said at a news conference."
No, the claim from Wednesday that the shooter used Citi Bike is the outdated information. Photos released Thursday show the shooter riding a bike that is *not* a Citi Bike, and walking outside the Frederick Douglass Houses carrying an e-bike battery. https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/12/05/thursdays-headlines-murder-most-foul-edition
In my mind I’m doing a slow roll-by in a James Bond pose & now I’ve added me rolling back past him in reverse (still in aforementioned James Bond pose 😝) after the recoil. Cool poised roller gürl called Veronica Vengeance (& yes I am high, it’s the weekend so don’t be judgey or fear the wrath of VV)
Depends on whether you want a workout or just to cover ground efficiently. I've never tried but I imagine skating requires higher skills levels. Cycling is more versatile if you need to stop & shop.
Either way good protected lanes are essential.
The main issues holding back bike use in most modern cities is the accident rate and the pollution. Once autonomous electric vehicles dominate the roads cyclists will take over the streets, and the city authorities should be planning to take this into account.
Car drivers actually breathe more polluted air than cyclists, weirdly. There was a great experiment in Paris a while back (pre-Hidalgo) that showed this.
It’s to do with the level of intake of air to circulate in cars, I think.
The pollution stays in the car rather than flowing past, but cyclists tend to be breathing deeper than drivers as they are exercising the particulate matter can get deeper into the lungs. https://youtu.be/PmKz3wCoycQ
Completely. I would take a bike from the same spot he rented, and bike to Yorkville in less than 30 minutes. If I recall correctly it would take me 17-18 minutes.
I am pretty sure that they have the wrong person from that Hostel photo. Different jacket/backpack and facial features entirely. Even still, yes, bikes are super fast for getting around the city.
They really put a ton of effort into solving murders of rich people. No way they'd have a whole team analyzing CCTV footage from all over the city if you or I got killed.
Nor would it be front page news in the UK, where no one has ever heard of Brian Whoever or his insurance company. I mean, thanks for the invitation the establishment, but I'm going to be concerned about something else today.
Someone seeking to kill someone in NYC is better off running them over with a car and staying at the scene because you can currently do that now and you won't even get a ticket/summons nevermind a coordinated manhunt because the police will just take your word that the person "came out of nowhere".
Ditch the bike in the park, have change clothes in backpack, change clothes in the Ramble, put old clothes in backpack, apply blond beard, jump in a cab, take metro north. Dammit, you’re an assassin.
I want to see an ad campaign splicing footage from Premium Rush and Quicksilver together with grainy security footage of this guy on his bike. New Yorkers for Cycling Access… when you have to get where you’re going, fast.
Totally weird but it is awfully generous to take someone’s life without him knowing it has happened- especially if you are angry enough to want to kill him 👀 and it obviously isn’t a murder that anybody wanted to keep secret 🤨 yet it had to be infallible.. I’m calling it suicide.
I used to live in Fort Lee, NJ and work in Chelsea. Driving was an hour. Public transit was 60-70 minutes. I could ride to work and shower and be ready to go in about 65 minutes. Cycling in NYC is the way to go, whether you're an assassin or not.
We do bike year round. It's actually quite rare for weather conditions to be so bad that you can't bike. We don't get many snow storms. If it's 25 and dry, then I'm riding in.
In NYC my rule was no riding below 10 degrees, mostly because I couldn’t be sure I could change a flat in those conditions. At 12 or so I’d freeze for the first mile but once I hit the Greenway I could get my HR up and it was downright pleasant.
Cold weather cycling gear is a lot cheaper than a car! And an ebike makes more than 5 miles very doable.
Biking in any season, including winter, isn’t for everyone and that’s fine. But it’s silly to say you can’t cycle October to April in NYC, which has fairly mild winters.
it was more sarcasm than anything else. I just find it kind of annoying how proponents of the bike lobby seem to gloss over how microscopically exclusive the entire idea can be.
I think 50 & sunny is my ideal because my toes don’t cold, I can use lighter weight gloves, I can wear a cuter jacket than I can below freezing, etc. But anything above 25 is honestly fine!
My cute biking hoodie gets me to about 40, then I have a cute bike jacket for down to 25...after that I don't care about being cute, just out of the wind.
Minneapolis and Montreal are two of the most bike-friendly cities on the continent. With plowed bike lanes and studded tires, winter biking isn't bad places that get real winter, and NYC doesn't even get real winter.
I did get hit by a car once, but it was a low speed crash, and after I peeled myself off the hood of the guy's car we screamed profanities at each other for a few minutes before going our separate ways. It was a very NYC experience.
The intersection right outside my office has similar incidents on the regular, except the level of profanity far exceeds the parochial level of NYC hipsters because I'm in Boston.
Beneath all this lies an unspoken occupational hazard that most delivery workers worry about — bicycle theft. Zabsonre is among the hundreds of delivery workers who have had their electric bicycles stolen, robbing them of their main tool of trade.
Violence isn't the answer, and I get United HealthCare isn't that perfect, but why would a lone shooter go after the C.E.O. of United healthcare. I mean there has to be a reason, either the shooter could be a disgruntled employee or an unsatisfied customer, I mean who knows.😨😟😨
A lot of people who probably know better than I would are saying he didn't act like a pro. I'm thinking someone who lost a loved one to a medical issue that UnitedHealthcare declined to pay for just because they could.
I'm trying to figure out how he would know exactly where he would be when and which door he would use to enter the building. But yeah, I clearly could be wrong. I just can't imagine a vigilante going that far.
All authority comes from violence, it is the only answer to us getting free from billionaire rule. He profited off letting people die. In fact that company denies more claims than any other insurance company and more than double the industry average.
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Talked to one today and confirmed that they almost never had anyone older than 25 staying there then. (They worked/lived there, met lots of chicks.)
If you want to get around quickly in NYC, an e bike is the way to go.
They'd do that before banning guns.
Beautiful set-up, by the way.
1 HP=746watts
Try to push a car your self.
How many couches does a car weigh?
a couch weighs 300 pounds.
Can you generate the power required to move around 16 couches every where?
This smells professional
lawyer: for the last time we'd like to strike juror #7
"Earlier Wednesday, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joe Kenny said the suspect fled on a Citi Bike that had a GPS system. “We’re still tracking video. The last we see with him on that bike is in Central Park,” he said at a news conference."
(The "practical shooters" won't be able to add that to their competition because of the range safety issues.) 3:O))>
Either way good protected lanes are essential.
It’s to do with the level of intake of air to circulate in cars, I think.
My point stands though.
Moving right along...
https://abcnews.go.com/US/unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-suspect/story?id=116460289
(I did have a policy of taking PTO if the air temp was below -10F, there's only so much a guy can take)
Stop it.
Biking in any season, including winter, isn’t for everyone and that’s fine. But it’s silly to say you can’t cycle October to April in NYC, which has fairly mild winters.
December is also great non-e bike weather because you sweat less
I cycle all year round. It helps my conditions by keeping me fit and limber.There is no such thing as the wrong weather, just the wrong clothing.
Cycling is recommended for retiree fitness.
https://columbianewsservice.com/2024/03/27/immigrant-food-delivery-workers-struggle-with-e-bike-thefts/
Whoever hired this guy has a sense of style.