Cycling Down the Champs-Elysees Frame Color:Unframed This illustration is by Keetra

This illustration is by Keetra Dean Dixon

fresh air and sunshine brought new residents into what had once been a drab neighborhood where Cooper Square joins the Bowery

Ruth Snyder was a Queens woman who murdered her husband with the help of her lover

or keep it from falling apart

Cycling Down the Champs-Elysees Frame Color:Unframed This illustration is by KeetraA family rides bicycles on the Champs Elysees on a Sunday morning in 1956 in Paris, where cycling has always evoked freedom. "Historically, the French have had a romantic attachment to their bikes," The Times has written. "Though the first functioning two wheeler is thought to have been invented by a German in 1817, it was the French who popularized and marketed the device in the 1860s, giving it the name 'bicycle.' " There are no bicycle helmet laws