A model displays a collection called “Chubby Chaser” by Netherlands-based Maison The Faux during New York Fashion Week in New York on September 9, 2016. (Photo by Angela Weiss/AFP Photo)

On Easter Sunday, (April 20, 2014) you have the opportunity to see Easter bonnets to the New York City extreme as "paraders" wander along Fifth Avenue from 49th to 57th Streets. The area around St. Patrick's Cathedral is the ideal place to see the parade.

A model prepares backstage at the Meskita fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Spring 2015 on September 4, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Meskita)

(L-R) Young Paris, Lionel Richie, Isabela Moner and Austin Butler attend the Jeremy Scott Fashion Show during New York Fashion Week at Spring Studios on September 8, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Ben Gabbe/Getty Images)

Models present creations from The Blonds Spring/Summer 2018 collection during New York Fashion Week in New York City, U.S. September 12, 2017. (Photo by Brendan McDermid/Reuters)

Nurse's Home, North Brother Island, New York. Photographer Christopher Payne specializes in the documentation of America’s vanishing architecture and industrial landscape. His new book, North Brother Island: The Last Unknown Place in New York City, explores an uninhabited island of ruins in the East River of New York City. (Photo by Christopher Payne)

America may be a nation obsessed with automobiles, but today the bicycle is giving the car a run for its money. And while New York is just one of many cities that is implementing new bikefriendly policies, the local cyclist population stands out as one of the most diverse, inventive, and stylish in the world.

New York City policemen tangled with demonstrators at a subway station on the opening day of the New York World's Fair, April 22, 1964. Youths attempted to stall the train, which was headed from the city to the fairgrounds, as a form of protest on behalf of civil rights for blacks. (Photo by Charles Gorry/AP Photo)