A Citi Bike pursuit and a fistfight in the middle of Avenue A

It was a striking midday scene on Wednesday, with two men fighting in the middle of Avenue A at 13th Street as traffic waited around them. 

The confrontation appeared to be the culmination of a pursuit that may have continued for several blocks.

EVG reader Ali Royals, who witnessed the incident, said the man in shorts caught up with the man in jeans and intentionally crashed his Citi Bike into the other man's Citi Bike.

According to Royals, the man in jeans — whom she described as "the vigilante" — then accused the other man of pushing kids in Tompkins Square Park before throwing several punches. 

The man in shorts lost both of his shoes during the altercation. (They were still in the intersection several hours later.)

A Citi Bike pursuit ended in a noonday fistfight Wednesday in the middle of Avenue A at 13th Street, where one man accused the other — who got the worst of the ensuing fight — of pushing kids in Tompkins Square Park. Clip by Ali Royals. #EastVillage pic.twitter.com/QdvZsbRIbR

— evgrieve (@evgrieve) August 28, 2026

It was not immediately known whether either man required medical attention.