"We interrupt all this mayoral chatter and SOMOS gossip to remind you that the awesome Bike Film Festival is in town this weekend, marking its 25th year of filling the world with the joy, pathos, bathos and exhilaration of cycling. This year's festival - running Nov. 8-9 at the Ukrainian National Home on Second Avenue in the Village - is headlined by "Changing Lanes," director Ben Wolf's documentary about the the joy, pathos, bathos and exhilaration of the McGuinness Boulevard bike lane saga."
"Wolf's ripped-from-the-Streetsblog-headlines film works on two levels: it's at once a broader view of how hard it is to vanquish car culture even in a city where are majority of people don't own an automobile as well as a granular look at what happened on McGuinness, when the car culture fought back with fake grassroots groups and outright corruption. It co-stars activists, David Byrne, Ingrid Lewis-Martin and yours truly in a cameo role as a license plate-fixing vigilante."
Bike Film Festival runs Nov. 8-9 at the Ukrainian National Home on Second Avenue in the Village, marking its 25th year. The festival is headlined by Changing Lanes, Ben Wolf's documentary about the McGuinness Boulevard bike lane saga; the film screens Saturday at 5 p.m. with two shorts. The documentary examines the difficulty of overcoming car culture and details fake grassroots opposition and corruption during the McGuinness fight. The film co-stars activists and public figures, including David Byrne and Ingrid Lewis-Martin, and features a cameo as a license plate–fixing vigilante. Additional local items note a mayoral interview, NYPD surveillance concerns, anti-bike opposition in Williamsburg, a deadly van crash, and controversy over police knowledge of an ICE raid.
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