The attacks were equally stunning for their severity and senselessness.
At least two men who bicycled on Esplanade Avenue in recent days were brutally beaten with baseball bats, requiring hospitalizations for a fractured skull in one instance and a fractured jaw in the other.
Police believe the cases are related and were done for nothing other than the assailants’ own amusement since neither victim was robbed — an idea that has had a chilling effect on some who pedal up and down the thoroughfare on a regular basis, using the newly added bicycle lane.