A woman crosses MacDougal street in lower Manhattan on her bicycle

Biking and Breathing

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 12, 2015

WNYC reporter Fred Mogul, Darby Jack, assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, and Steven Chillrud, research professor at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, discuss the WNYC/Columbia University study of the air NYC's growing number of bicyclists breath in on city streets and bike paths. 

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