Monday, May 12, 2014

[Updated] Temporarily packing up the Citi Bike docking station on East 4th Street



Crews this morning removed the Citi Bike docking station on East Fourth Street just west of Second Avenue. This is temporary, per EVG contributor Derek Berg, who took these photos...



Apparently East Fourth Street here between Second Avenue and the Bowery will be resurfaced sometime soon ... (though we didn't spot it scheduled yet on the DOT website...) will be getting a street mural courtesy of DOT Art and the Fourth Arts Block.

Here's more about the program:

In collaboration with New York Cares and the DOT Bike Share Program, DOT Art beautifies asphalt around Citi Bike stations with colorful designs. … The first project took place in August 2013 at the Franklin Street station between West Broadway and Varick Street in Manhattan.


[Via Dot Art]

Later today, Derek spotted someone putting down an undercoat…





And if you are looking to either get or return a Citi Bike... Second Avenue and East Second Street might be a good option.

12 comments:

  1. Permanently move them to the bottom of the Hudson.

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  2. Anonymous, Ditto!

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  3. maybe next they'll do St Marks Place

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  4. I hear there's a new discovery of a metal eating plant, seems like food for a while?

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  5. The metal-eating plant eats nickle. The citibike docs take only credit cards.

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  6. Q: What do you call 1 citi bike docking station at the bottom of the Hudson?
    A: A good start

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  7. Please stop trying to make our streets look like a child's bedroom from Ikea.

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  8. For THIS we have money?! And I agree that it looks like a bad rug from Ikea.

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  9. Hell, the street has been beautified just by removing that crappy bike stand, no need to do anything else.

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  10. Yeh Gojira! I like your thought.

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  11. don't dump them in the Hudson, such a waste! dump them in the Atlantic ocean...they'd make a great artificial coral reef!

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  12. They should have at the least swept up all the dirt and grime left from the stations before starting their mural....

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