NYC bike messengers, the city's often overlooked and unappreciated delivery people, detail to The Post the highs and lows of schlepping packages during New York Fashion Week, their busiest and most ...
A three-day race brought together over a hundred couriers who raced, partied, and crashed their way through a revived ...
Even in the heyday of the bike messenger business in the late 1980s — when an estimated 1,500 couriers zoomed around the streets of the Loop — there were fears the fax machine could end the need for ...
Bike messengers have long been the misunderstood miscreants of the city, earning the ire of many a NYC pedestrian, cabbie, and New York Post columnist—until now. The Travel Channel aims to shed ...
Angelenos may rely on cell phones and BlackBerrys to conduct business amid the traffic and sprawl, but some unlikely throwbacks to an earlier time hang on: Bike messengers. A hardy bunch of about 100, ...
Bike messengers in Farragut Square have been a topic of discussion on DCWatch’s discussion newsletter themail. The exchange began when a subscriber wrote in the Aug. 11 edition that he had watched ...
Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Dwain Walters, 21, competes in a relay race for bike messengers at this year ...
Like so many bike messengers before him, Rigo remembers when an on-the-job injury made him unable to work. “I got doored right over there,” Rigo said at a recent cycling protest in New York City, ...
Bike messenger Nic Woods, 30, of Wilkinsburg, rides Downtown through the Strip District to pick up a package. He's been a messenger in the city for 2.5 years. In the lobby of the Federal Building on ...
Bike messengers from all parts of North America and the world arrived in the San Francisco this weekend for the North American Cycle Courier Championships (NACCC). Now in its tenth year, over 200 ...
There was a time when it felt like you couldn't drive downtown without almost mowing down a bike messenger, or take a courthouse elevator without squeezing next to one or two or five of them. Or open ...
Models may have worked the runways during New York Fashion Week, but couriers did the legwork. The bike messengers dashing around NYC, delivering designer duds to star-studded shows and photo shoots, ...