The simmering war between Brooklyn bikers and their Orthodox Jewish neighbors has escalated into a cyclist smackdown, riders said yesterday.
Drivers are bumping and blocking cyclists, running them off the road and cursing them out along a one-block stretch of the Bedford Avenue bike lane between Park and Flushing avenues.
“It’s getting worse,” bike deliveryman Rodrigo Lopez told The Post. “The drivers and pedestrians don’t give a f- – k — they just go where they want.”
Lopez and other cyclists said they’ve been targeted as they try to navigate an area teeming with school buses, double-parked minivans and women pushing baby strollers.
Yesterday, a Williamsburg rider named Julie posted online about being nearly knocked by a yeshiva bus into a row of parked cars, and said she’s stopped riding along Bedford because of “danger and harassment.”
Resident Stan Rubin, 22, notes that the problem cuts both ways. “The bikes don’t stop for the buses or kids, and the buses and cars cut off the bike lanes. It’s a bad situation.”