BIKES, ABUSED TYKES, AND NEW YORK PRESS. As Gawker has noted, New York Press is looking awfully slim these days. Still, the current issue delivers a couple of worthwhile articles.

In "Crackpot Crackdown," Aaron Naparstek offers an incisive critique of the city's anti-bicycling policies. [See July 20, 2005.] And in the shocking "Inside Incarnation," Liam Scheff shares sickening descriptions of medical experimentation perpetrated by Columbia's Incarnation Children's Center on foster children under its institutional "care." The embattled Incarnation Center offers an unpersuasive response to such allegations.

As for New York Press, it really does seem to be in trouble. Maybe Richard Branson could do something with it.