Weiner lives in an attractive residential district of Philadelphia that resembles brownstone Brooklyn in all but its property values: row houses, tree-lined streets, stroller-filled playgrounds.
Walking east on 85th Street, a stroller would see farms and stables.
"I didn't want to be pushing her down the street in a stroller with a white doll," Ms. Butler said.
The good thing about the U.S. is you can spend very little money and read a lot: you go down the street with a stroller and you find boxes of books.
Just outside the Hayden Planetarium, at West 81st Street, the double stroller crossed paths with a pushcart vendor, and the two children were swept up like moons into the gravitational force of all those summer treats; rocket Popsicles, frozen renditions of SpongeBob, Drumsticks.
He cautioned us about the danger of wearing shorts and told an anecdote in which a mother who was wearing Bermuda shorts and pushing her child down the street in a stroller so aroused a male driver, he drove up on the sidewalk and struck and killed the baby.
I became one of those lonely, out-of-synch mothers patrolling the streets with my stroller at odd hours.
And so, in parts of the world that I imagine to be less busy and more bucolic than my street in Brooklyn, strollers are disappearing.
In Riverside Park near 93rd Street, where baby strollers and Zabar's bags abounded, rumors of the reversal began circulating shortly before noon.
But once you park your car and reach the Altstadt (or "old city") on foot, the cobblestone streets offer the stroller a little-known shortcut from Munich to Rome.
It is merengue music and Mercedes-Benzes, street preachers and strollers.
