Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bicycle Parking

Eyes on the Street: Parking Meter Reincarnated as Bike Rack

By Ben Fried | Jun 17, 2011 | 9 Comments

Hundreds of defunct parking meters are on their way to a second life as bike racks. Reader Joanna Oltman Smith sends this photo of DOT handiwork on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, where the columns of defunct coin-slot meters have been awaiting rebirth as bike racks for some time. Muni meters took over many blocks […]

Ratner Arena Will Include 400 Satanic Bike Parking Spots

By Ben Fried | Apr 5, 2011 | 13 Comments

Well, this doesn’t make up for the eminent domain abuse, inexcusable subsidies-slash-dealmaking, crappy urban design and extensive surface parking acreage, but the Wall Street Journal’s Jason Gay reminds us that the Brooklyn basketball arena financed by Bruce Ratner, Mikhail Prokhorov, and the taxpayers of New York State will include 400 bike parking spaces. Gay’s report […]

Anyone Park Your Bike on Vanderbilt Ave This Weekend?

By Ben Fried | Oct 18, 2010 | 9 Comments

If you did and you woke up on Sunday to find your tires shredded, you can find the backstory on the Brooklynian forum. Apparently, a misanthropic type went on a bike tire slashing spree Saturday night along Vanderbilt Avenue in Prospect Heights. A witness reports seeing “an older man in a hooded sweatshirt, looking like […]

Dollar-A-Day Bike Parking Arrives at All Edison ParkFast Locations

By Noah Kazis | Sep 15, 2010 | 33 Comments

The combination of the Bicycle Access to Garages law and the market’s invisible hand are bringing cheap bike parking to locations across Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn. As of last month, every garage operated by Edison ParkFast, one of the largest parking companies in the city, is offering bike parking at the rate of $1 per […]

Sanitation Department Spares Ghost Bikes From Trash Heap

By Noah Kazis | Sep 7, 2010 | 15 Comments

The Department of Sanitation has backed off its controversial plan to remove ghost bikes from the streets of New York, relenting to a public outcry in favor of the memorials to cyclists killed while riding. Proposed rules governing the removal of derelict bicycles released in June would have taken away even the best-maintained memorials, but […]

Eyes on the Street: Uprooted CityRack

By Ben Fried | Sep 3, 2010 | 2 Comments

A tipster sends this picture of one of the city’s new bike racks that, someway, somehow, got wrenched out of the pavement. We’re told that the sidewalk at Fulton Street and Rockwell Place in Brooklyn had a big chunk missing where the bike rack would have been. After this bike rack design won a 2008 […]

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