no place for a horseless carriage
September 3, 2002
having spent the last few days darting around tri-state traffic in a borrowed car, I can personally attest to the premise of this New York Times article, that cars and the City just don't jibe.
it turns out that America's first recorded traffic fatality took place in NYC in 1899, when one Henry Hale Bliss, proffering his hand to help a woman stepping off a trolley car, was promptly run down by - what else? - a New York taxi. Quips writer Clyde Haberman:
"Chivalry might not have been dead in 1899, but Mr. Bliss was."
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