Cycling Down the Champs-Elysees guide-history-buffs The New York Times moved

The New York Times moved its headquarters uptown to Broadway and 42nd Street

after Nancy Reagan's death

The well-publicized adventures gave the famous foursome a chance to relax while effectively advertising Ford automobiles and Firestone tires

With an increase in the number of automobiles

And to this very day

Cycling Down the Champs-Elysees guide-history-buffs The New York Times movedA family rides bicycles on the Champs Elysees on a Sunday morning in 1956 in Paris, where cycling has always evoked freedom. "Historically, the French have had a romantic attachment to their bikes," The Times has written. "Though the first functioning two wheeler is thought to have been invented by a German in 1817, it was the French who popularized and marketed the device in the 1860s, giving it the name 'bicycle.' " There are no bicycle helmet laws