In a formerly bad-luck city, it feels like a masochistic revival.
The quaint conveyances also stand out for the inordinate number of accidents and the millions of dollars annually the city pays out to settle lawsuits for broken bones, severed feet and bad bruises caused when 19th-century technology runs headlong into 21st-century city traffic and congestion.
Meanwhile, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he'd veto what he called a short-sighted measure that would be bad for the city's economy.
Mr Eglin is acutely alive to the way in which the received view of Bath, as a serene and homogenous Georgian polis, works to hide the fact that for most of Nash's time the place was a construction site, squabbled over by a set of bad-tempered competing interests: builders, architects and the city corporation itself.
The bad weather also hit the traditional post-Christmas sales with Belfast city centre shops reporting a 50% fall off in trade.
But the divide between this city and the rest of the country is at least as bad -- and it seems to get worse every year.
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Mr de Guindos is in the city to sell foreign investors on the so-called "bad bank", where Spain will park the poor property assets that are weighing down its lenders.
While entire states like West Virginia and Louisiana inspired fear and loathing among the Gucciloafer set, the bad grades for California and Illinois seemed driven more by concern about generous big-city juries, and in the Land of Lincoln, the downstate litigation mecca of Madison County.
"Mega-blocks that are prime examples of bad urban planning" is the assessment of local City Councilmember Letitia James.
For Sheen, the "Spin City" role was a chance to have some fun with his own bad-boy image.
The city's most civic-minded philanthropist is Michael Milken, once the bad boy of the financial world.
One theory is that the city is captured by its history, locked into multi-generational patterns of bad behaviour that get passed from parent to child.
Too often American troops have cleared out a town, city or neighborhood, only to have been pulled out--and the bad guys have promptly gone back in.
City have managed to play just twice since 12 December due to the bad weather - and Dryden admits that even finding a place to train has been hard.
Of course, just because a city isn't rated highly for singles doesn't make it a bad place--it might be great for families or retirees.
Neil Warnock's side piled more misery on City by knocking three more past Myhill after former Blade Uhlenbeek was red-carded for a bad foul after 56 minutes.
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