Cycling year around in New York should be relatively easy.
There is winter cycling culture in much harsher climates https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/feb/12/ice-cycles-no...
There is winter cycling culture in much harsher climates https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/feb/12/ice-cycles-no...
Sure, those people who can be bothered with it might pick up the cycle during the winter. Those people who can't be bothered are going to pick up their stuff and leave.
North is sparsely populated because the crops were historically poor and prone to losses due to weather conditions, not because people don't like the weather.
And that was in the Seattle area, where it rarely gets all that cold.
I ain't gonna do that.