winter in the city

The social season has begun. The pedicab cyclists of New York, who are making $600 or so a day giving tours around Central Park and elsewhere (when their bikes haven't been impounded for parking them chained to city property—a tree, say or a signpost), are not drinking Beaujolais Nouveau ("eez terreeble zis year," says Christoff) at Tout Va Bien. But they are drinking a nice wine priced according to the custom they bring the place and complaining mightily about the cops.