
You might love your bicycle-- but are you as hardcore as this dude? [Picture by the amazing Jesse Chan Norris. And related: Needled, Inkedblog, and a great gallery of NYC Sept 11th memorial tattoos.]
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You might love your bicycle-- but are you as hardcore as this dude? [Picture by the amazing Jesse Chan Norris. And related: Needled, Inkedblog, and a great gallery of NYC Sept 11th memorial tattoos.]
Jake Dobkin co-founded Gothamist with Jen Chung. In 2019, Jake released Ask a Native New Yorker, a book based on his Gothamist advice column.
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