Patricia N. Saffran, NYC’s Dangerous Green Failure: E-biker Accidents, Motorized Pedicab Driver Attacks, Carriage Horses and Asylum Seekers

Patricia N. Saffran   E-bikes, and motorized scooters and pedicabs were supposed to be the City’s answer to reducing cars in Manhattan, the green fantasy of City Hall. Now, many bike lanes later the City is reeling from the accidents and deaths that they’ve caused. Since the motorized vehicles can go along at the same speed as the cars and a number of them don’t stop at traffic lights, many New Yorkers are afraid to cross the street.   In the case of the motorized pedicab drivers, they’re committing crimes. …

Patricia N. Saffran, Sherman Monument Ambushed on Fifth Avenue, Central Park 

By Patricia N. Saffran Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ glorious William Tecumseh Sherman, known as the Sherman Monument, 1902, on Fifth Avenue, Grand Army Plaza, New York City, is one of the most important Beaux Arts sculptures in the country. The plinth was designed by architect Charles Follen McKim of McKim, Mead and White. Stanford White, of the same firm, was the architect of the Metropolitan Club, 1893, one block up on the avenue. The nearby landmarked Plaza Hotel dates from 1907, fronted with the picturesque Pulitzer fountain, 1911. Bergdorf Goodman, 1928, sits…