Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bicycle Parking

DOT Says Inwood Bike Shelter Didn’t Get Enough Use

By Brad Aaron | Nov 13, 2009 | 8 Comments

Impromptu bike parking on Dyckman Street after the de-installation of a bike shelter, which for a year stood on the fresh patch of concrete in the background. Photo: Brad Aaron A brief follow-up to our earlier story on Inwood’s disappearing Dyckman Street bike shelter. According to DOT, while it was located near a bike shop […]

Eyes on the Street: The Case of the Vanishing Bike Shelter

By Brad Aaron | Nov 10, 2009 | 14 Comments

Now you see bike infrastructure, now you don’t. Photos: Brad Aaron Last October, DOT installed Inwood’s first bike shelter on Dyckman/200th Street at Broadway. A little over a week ago, it disappeared without a trace. According to a blurb in the Manhattan Times, a spokesperson with DOT said the shelter was removed due to lack […]

Second Life: NYC Parking Meters to Reincarnate as Bike Racks

By Ben Fried | Oct 28, 2009 | 7 Comments

Headless meter poles on Madison Avenue, awaiting rebirth. Photo: Wiley Norvell. New York’s trusty single-space parking meters are a dying breed. They’ve served commercial corridors admirably, but they’re rapidly giving way to muni-meters (which are much better suited for innovations in curbside pricing, like DOT’s PARKSmart program). The downside of the shrinking meter supply: New […]

Eyes on the Street: Columbia on the Lookout for Bike Thieves

By Brad Aaron | Oct 13, 2009 | 6 Comments

Streetsblog regular Glenn McAnanama sent in a flier from Columbia University police [PDF] alerting faculty, staff and students to a recent bike theft. Video stills like the one at right appear to show a man — pictured more clearly on the flier — walking away with a bike after removing the front wheel. (Hal would […]

NYPD’s Bedford Avenue Circular Saw Massacre Caught on Tape

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 5, 2009 | 18 Comments

The NYPD’s 94th Precinct in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is working hard to build on its reputation for being New York City’s most infamous bike thieves. Too much demand for bike parking in the neighborhood? "I know what to do," says the 94’s commanding officer Dennis M. Fulton. "Bust out the circular saw!" This time Greenpoint resident […]

Can’t Find an Open Bike Rack at Rock Center? Tough Luck. [Updated]

By Brad Aaron | Sep 2, 2009 | 15 Comments

Photos: Mike Noble A report popped up on Twitter yesterday of a bike parking crackdown of sorts at Rockefeller Center. Per Mike Noble, a.k.a. bikewobble, security officers under "pressure from the city" were threatening to cut the locks of bikes secured to objects other than racks. Maybe this would seem more reasonable if there were […]

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