Monday, August 8, 2011

City discovers bicycle graveyard on East First Street

Several readers have pointed out the pile of dead bikes on East First Street, along the construction-choked corridor between Avenue A and First Avenue ...




Now the city has posted these rather unintentionally funny signs on the bikes.



Wonder how city workers deduced that these are, in fact, abandoned? Anyway, if one of these bikes belongs to you... the city will remove it after today.

Also, does anyone know how all these bikes got here?
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7 comments:

  1. Roger_PawAugust 8, 2011 at 10:07 AM

    They are obviously Chop Shop rejects.

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  2. blue glassAugust 8, 2011 at 10:46 AM

    if they've been abandoned who is the sign for?

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  3. AnonymousAugust 8, 2011 at 2:55 PM

    Could just be the East Village's version of the elephant graveyard. Sad, but natural.

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  4. crab appleAugust 8, 2011 at 3:35 PM

    I see dead bikes everywhere. Some people want to have a bike in the city, but they can't be bothered carrying up to their apts, so they just leave them on racks that other bikers who come and go could be using. On my block alone, every time my neighbors get rid of a bike parked for weeks, another comes along and stays for weeks again. I guess these people don't really ant their bikes after all!

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  5. AnonymousAugust 8, 2011 at 3:55 PM

    A lot of them are the victims of people and their half-baked ideas. "Oh my god Tammy, let's get bikes and ride them to Soho on the weekend!" Once the novelty wears off and the once neato idea falls to the wayside, the poor bike gets left on the street. Eventually some parts are poached from the bike and now the bike is completely useless to Tammy who's probably long since forgotten about it anyways. It's the same story in my building's storage room. Half these bikes are decrepit flat-tired and clearly haven't seen an ass in years.

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  6. AnonymousAugust 10, 2011 at 4:36 PM

    Man thank god I've always hated those bikes taking up valuable spaces! I always assumed that they were stripped of their parts first, and THEN abandoned, b/c the owners didn't want to deal with fixing them. The reverse order could be true, I guess...

    Now if only they could remove the ones from the corner of Roebling and Metropolitan (sorry, not EV I know...)

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  7. Pim LadigesAugust 11, 2011 at 6:32 AM

    You should see the streets of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)!

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