N.J.'s cycles of sadness may belong to 9/11 dead

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/173489p-151144c.html



A cluster of rusty bicycles with cracked tires has sat outside the PATH station in Hoboken, N.J., unclaimed since at least the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

They may have been forgotten or abandoned, which police say is common, but some PATH commuters wonder if they belonged instead to people who rode them the day the twin towers collapsed and didn't return to ride them home.

"I pass by and I always think about it: What if these bicycles belong to someone who died on 9/11?" Joshua Carlysle, 27, said one recent morning as he locked his Mongoose mountain bike next to a navy-blue Schwinn that has been battered by the elements.

No one knows for sure how long the bikes have been left there or who they belong to, because none has identification.

There is a silver Raleigh, the blue Schwinn and a pink Schwinn, a green Bighorn with a purple handlebar and a dark-blue mountain bike so rusty its brand name can no longer be seen.

[PragMantisT]

1. Did you see the cars at the Madrid commuter station?

What better way to remember the fallen.

[Miss Authoritiva]

2. Some memorials create themselves

Too bad the sculptor George Segal is no longer with us. I'd like to think he could have worked with this. Or perhaps it's just better to leave it the way it is, but embed a plaque in the asphalt. It also would suit the grittiness of the Hoboken station.