The invention of urethane wheels enabled skateboarding on variable terrain (concrete, wood, plastic, and metal) with increase traction and less friction; the reinvention (brought back from the eighteenth century) and popularization of non-unidirectional twin tip skis enabled skiing backward and forward with equal competence; and the invention of the freecoaster rear bicycle hub enabled rolling (and thus landing) backward as well as forward without the crank arms turning along with the wheels.

Brooklyn’s biggest export is no longer hiptards—it’s babies.

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From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.