Blinky
01-23-2003, 09:51 AM
January 23, 2003 - NYtimes.com NEW YORK -- FRANK TROPEA stands on the Brooklyn Bridge, taking in the breathtaking view of Manhattan on a bitterly cold Saturday afternoon. Actually, he is standing about eight inches above the bridge, atop his Segway Human Transporter, the high-tech celebrity scooter. He has stopped because a young woman and her husband saw him riding along the bridge and ran after him, flagging him down. "Hey, a Segway!" shouts Jon Levitsky, pronouncing the name as if its first syllable rhymed with "hedge.'' (It is pronounced SEG-way, like "segue.") Mr. Levitsky and his wife, Sharon Herbstman, catch up to chat. The conversation goes the way hundreds of conversations have already gone for Mr. Tropea, the owner of the first Segway in New York City. Full Article (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/23/technology/circuits/23segw.html?pagewanted=1)