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Photo by Max Dworkin. Keith Nelson, co-founder of the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus (at left), and Robert Hickman, sculptor, and intrepid unicyclists, make riding their unicycles across all of NYC bridges a goal.

Unicyclists Robert Hickman, a sculptor, and Keith Nelson, co-founder of the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, embarked on a journey starting in 2009, to cross all 2,078 bridges that exist in New York City. They’ve crossed 272 bridges to date, and should complete their impressively long-term goal in about ten years.

This past winter they made history when they unicycled across the Florida Keys as part of Sculpture Key West—over 130 miles, and 55 bridges. Their trip log is online at unibridgetour.info

A year before her death at age 90, the celebrated urban planning activist Jane Jacobs wrote a letter (dated April 15, 2005) to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, expressing her thoughts about the 2005 rezoning of the Greenpoint and Williamsburg neighborhoods. A copy was recently obtained by WG News + Arts (from an unnamed source).

We think that now is appropriate time to bring it to light, as tomorrow we face the latest rezoning on the waterfront, when the City Council of New York votes on the Domino Plan.

Ms. Jacobs, a world-renowned scholar of good and balanced growth in cities, is currently in the news because of a coveted citation in her name. Last week, a Jane Jacobs Medal was awarded to the the founders of Friends of the High Line.

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Bindlestiff Family Circus: Clown and Sculptor Unicyclists Cross the Williamsburg Bridge

Letter from Jane Jacobs to Mayor Bloomberg on Rezoning