--- title: Evan Friss | TIME description: Evan Friss is a professor of history at James Madison University and the author of On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City and The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore. canonical: https://time.com/author/evan-friss/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/evan-friss/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Evan Friss ## Evan Friss Evan Friss is a professor of history at James Madison University and the author of [_On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City_](https://www.amazon.com/Bicycles-200-Year-History-Cycling-York/dp/0231182562) and [_The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore_](https://www.amazon.com/Bookshop-History-American-Bookstore/dp/0593299922). ## Evan Friss *  Nov 3, 2025 ### [Zohran Mamdani Could Be New York's First Citi Bike Mayor](https://time.com/7330318/zohran-mamdani-citi-bike-mayor/) Zoran Mamdani's "embrace of Citi Bike suggests he’s somewhat of a pragmatist—not the rigid ideologue... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/evan-friss/","name":"Evan Friss"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/evan-friss/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/evan-friss/"},"name":"Evan Friss","jobTitle":null,"description":"Evan Friss is a professor of history at James Madison University and the author of On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City and The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore.","url":"https://time.com/author/evan-friss/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```