Bicycles. Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, April 2003
It is entirely possible that these bicycles are still chained to this signpost, more than seven years after the fact. There is an off chance their owners returned to reclaim them. It is more probable the New York City Department of Highways sent someone over with a bolt cutter, and released these simple transportation machines back into the wild.
Of all my years in New York, I can never understand why people wrap their bikes in Hulk-proof chains and hasp them with Brinks-grade locks, only to abandon them to time and the elements.
