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Salvaging Abandoned Bikes

THEIR frames molder and peel in the city’s musty depths. Hundreds — perhaps thousands — rest in haphazard jumbles, their surfaces pocked with rust, their tubes airless and stiffened by time.

No firm numbers exist for how many bicycles sit abandoned in storage rooms around New York City. They decay uncounted in dim basements, mixing awkwardly with sleek new city cruisers and carbon-fiber racers, threatening to turn an increasingly marketable real estate amenity, the bicycle storage room, into something like a bone-filled catacomb.

“You have no idea this world of bicycles that’s awaiting you,” said Pasqualina Azzarello, the director of Recycle-a-Bicycle, a nonprofit group that says it rescues 1,200 bikes each year in the city, most of them from basements. “It’s something that we deal with quite often.” (read more at NY Times)

Tasting Table's Best Cocktails of 2011

This might have to be part of our Marathon Weekend game plan!  We can agree with Tasting Table, that our livers might end up hating us for it, but we’re going to love tasting every drink from their list of extraordinary cocktails of the year!