[Photo by Michael Sean Edwards]
Hawk family update (Gog in NYC)
Master Softee trucks banned in NYC (Daily News)
Rent hike closes "Lower East Side" designer's shop (DNAinfo)
The cars of the East Village circa 1995 (New York City 1990s)
Clinton Street Baking Company expanding next door? (BoweryBoogie)
A feature on Jim and Karla Murray's book "The Disappearing Face of New York" (Dangerous Minds)
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The NYC subway photography of Walker Evans from 1938-1941 (Ephemeral New York)
$28 million penthouse sells at the Puck Building (The Real Deal)
How to help save Jim's Shoe Repair from being swallowed by Duane Reade (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)
The collateral damage from Citi Bikes: Bike shops (Bloomberg News)
Video: Figment Arts Festival 2014 at Governors Island (GammaBlog)
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7 comments:
The top car in "The cars of the East Village circa 1995 (New York City 1990s)" is probably mine, and I still have it.
So what happens to cyclists who own their own bikes in this city when CitiBike kills off all the bike shops? Where do we go for service when bank branches replace the bike shops?
What a brilliant idea, an almost bankrupt bike share program that isn't even paying the city for all that public space it's using for free, and now the bike shops are getting killed, all because CitiBike is giving away the annual contracts at 26 cents a day.
Their cash crunch is so bad they are even resorting to Groupon to sell more day and week passes. CitiBike loses an estimated five bucks every time an annual rider uses a bike, due to unexpected extra maintenance costs from all the wear and tear, but don't worry, they'll just make it up in volume.
And they want to expand those uptown and to the boroughs to kill off more business? They need to at least double the annual plans to $200 for this to make any sense. For their customer demographic that's making six figures this is peanuts, and they need to at least recoup costs before this predatory pricing scheme ends another vibrant part of the local economy.
Citibikes rock, end of story. The bike shop workers probably work for Alta Bike Share now, making more money than before. It's win/win!
Scores of CitiBike workers who were hired last year for full time jobs were laid off during the winter months. Now they are so worried about their job security they are trying to unionize. Obviously (you still with me?) not "all" of the bike shop workers in NYC went go to work for Citibike, or "all" the bike shops would be now closed.
So much for your nice little theory, next time try Googling it, or better, just use some common sense.
CitiBike Workers Rally For Job Security
"just use some common sense."
CitiBike makes no sense.
Giovanni, You miss the point. Workers for Alta are able to organize -- workers for small shops are not. That's a plus. But I know workers are not your concern.
You know, I started biking on a CitiBike at Summer Streets and it's kind of been a gateway drug. I never would have tried biking in the city otherwise, but I bought my first "big kid" bike a few months ago to ride the 5 Boro Bike Tour. I ride a CitiBike to work about every other day and keep an extra helmet at work. Maybe this is a long-term good for these bike shops, or maybe they need to adjust their business model. I don't want to see bike shops disappear, but they have to learn to live with CitiBike.
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