Live in New York with Choire Sicha
The War on Cars
The War on Cars, LLC
4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
On Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021, The War on Cars recorded a live show at Caveat on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Our special guest for the evening was Choire Sicha, an editor at large at New York Magazine, who joined us to talk about YIMBYism, "bike fascism" and life in the suburbs. Plus, why does Eric Adams, the newly elected mayor of New York City, need to fix his bike's front fork?
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SHOW NOTES:
Yes, Build the Windowless, Bathroomless Dorm in My Backyard (Choire Sicha at Curbed)
How to Ride the Bus (Choire Sicha at Curbed)
Eric Adams' Fork is Backwards (reddit.com/r/NYCbike/)
Curtis Sliwa Hit By Cab, Does Radio Show Before Going to Hospital (NBC 4)
Curtis Sliwa vows to end the "war on vehicles." (New York Post)
This episode was edited by Ali Lemer. It was recorded live at Caveat. Theme music is by Nathaniel Goodyear. Logo is by Dani Finkel of Crucial D.
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| 1:07.6 | and helping to win the war on cars. This is the War on Cars. I'm Doug Gordon. Back in November we did something really fun. |
| 1:33.0 | We held a live show before a sold out audience a caveat on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. |
| 1:38.0 | Needless to say, it was so wonderful, it was amazing, it was incredible to be live and in person with 120 friends and |
| 1:46.6 | fans of the podcast. Our guest for the evening was Corey Sika, an editor at large at New York magazine and a self-described |
| 1:55.2 | Yimbi and Bike fascist. You will hear more about that in a few minutes. |
| 2:00.3 | This episode has been edited down for your listening pleasure, but we will be releasing a full length video of the live show for Patreon supporters very soon. |
| 2:09.0 | If you want access to that and to all of our other exclusive content, go to the War on Cars.org, |
| 2:15.1 | click support us and become a Patreon supporter today. As thanks, we'll send |
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