When my friend Abigail from IMG e mailed to say that there were “delightful little scooters” outside Carnegie Hall today, I knew I had to take a detour from my lunchtime eyebrow threading appointment and see it for myself. Sure enough, when I came up on 57th street and 8th avenue, there was a fleet of four scooters with Carnegie ads attached parked along the sidewalk. Naturally, I walked up to them and asked what the situation was. They told me they were going to Carnegie Hall (“right down the road!”) next, and that they had been to Wall Street, Union Square, and Columbus Circle that day.
Here are some photos:
Taking a breather. 
“Right down the road.”
Making me eat their dust. Or whatever’s on New York City streets.
Into the night! 
The company Carnegie used is called Scooter Media, and it promises a “fleet of stylish new scooters, each one piloted by a very happy person.” (I talked to two of the drivers, and both did seem like fairly happy people, one slightly more so than the other. They were also all wearing “Practice, practice, practice” t shirts, and were happyish despite that.) In possibly less exciting news, I learned today that you get a 10% discount at any Kate’s Paperie if you have a Museum of Modern Art or a Whitney Museum membership. My sister constantly mocks my disorganized wallet, but little does she know it’s all an elaborate ploy to have various membership cards fall onto counters just as I’m spending too much on hand-printed stationary. Even less germane to this blog post than the museum/stationary discount, I also learned today that if you don’t drink the beet juice you bought last Wednesday, it will explode all over the place and you will look like that True Blood Rolling Stone cover but a lot less hot.