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More than 800,000 New Yorkers ride a bike regularly and 460,000 cycling trips are taken every day, triple the number 15 years ago, according to the New York City Department of Transportation. But the city's relationship with the bicycle is not new, and its long and colorful history is the focus of a newly opened exhibition. “Cycling in the City: A 200-Year History,” on view at the Museum of the City of New York through October 6, 2019, details biking's development through time, from the early years when the first velocipede (human-powered two-wheeled machines without pedals that riders propelled themselves by pushing off the ground with their feet or coasting down hills) appeared on city streets
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