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...bicycle law crackdown began in March. The law, which has been in effect for some time, stipulates that all bicyclists must follow the same traffic laws as cars. They must stay to the right of the road; they are strictly prohibited from riding on the sidewalk in Harvard and Central Square; and they must always yield to pedestrians...
...murders in half and greatly reduced other violent crimes. Under the New York style of policing, which has spread to half a dozen other cities, police officers stop and question people at will and penalize those who commit such minor violations as riding a bicycle on the sidewalk and urinating in public. If a person is unable to provide photo identification, he or she is taken to the station, searched, fingerprinted and possibly detained...
...Guyton's passionate explanation that the dangling shoes celebrated their black ancestors lynched in the South. Residents probably should have asked Guyton whether Soles of the Most High completed his artistic vision for their block. It didn't. Eleven years later, thousands of used shoes are piled by the sidewalk and hanging in the trees--along with rusty car hoods and tires strewn across a vacant lot and rows and rows of discarded vacuum cleaners, stuffed animals and broken dolls. Heidelberg Street is also festooned in polka dots. "I'm going to polka-dot this whole city," proclaims Guyton...
Versace lived directly on busy Ocean Drive, a 15-block strip of Art Deco hotels and sidewalk cafes facing the oceanfront. He didn't even like the mansion's security videocameras to be recording. In the Versace household, everybody had regular routines that would be easy for a killer to know. One of those routines was Versace's morning walk to the News Cafe, four blocks from his home, to buy magazines and a coffee...
Sitting at a sun-drenched sidewalk table outside the Cezanne Cafe, Idi, a 25-year-old short-order cook of North African origin, talks about the change that has come over Vitrolles. "There are fewer young people in the streets. We're afraid to go out at night. The cops have become cowboys." Nadia Salsedo, 55, a Tunisian-born immigrant, lost her job as a city hall secretary after the Front took over. "When the cops go after someone," she says, "it's the dark-skinned kids, not the blonds...