Showing posts with label bikes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bikes. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

DOT removing bike racks from Astor Place


EVG reader 8E sends along this photo from today at Astor Place, noting: "Looks like there'll be fewer bike racks at Astor Place by Friday."

Indeed.


Anyone know what's going on here? A ramp up to the Citi Bike system? Back in April, StreetsBlog noted that Astor Place will be home to a 55-dock station next to the uptown 6 train entrance.

Or. Something related to the Death Star?

Just guessing...

Thursday, July 12, 2012

At the Citi Bike demonstration in Tompkins Square Park

So there was a Citi Share biking demonstration today in Tompkins Square Park ... Shawn Chittle stopped by to take a few photos...






Shawn's not really sold on this concept... Did anyone try out a bike? Any thoughts to share?

Oh, and here's the official City Bike website... still don't see an official start date for this program...

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Your chance to give the Citi Bikes a whirl tomorrow on Avenue A

[Citi Bike NYC]

Everyone is, of course, super psyched about the Citi Bike program that the city and Citi are launching this summer...

In case you're not on board yet. From the EV Grieve inbox...

Bike Share Demonstration: Tompkins Square Park
Demonstration
THURSDAY
July 12th, 2012
12:00 PM–4:00 PM
Give the Citi Bikes a whirl, ask questions about bike share, and give your feedback on the system. The bikes will be at Tompkins Square Park on East 7th Street and Avenue A.

By the way, if you're out, can you swing by Gringer and Sons on First Avenue and pick up the upright freezer that I ordered? Thanks!

Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] Here is the city's new Citi Bike

Here are your East Village bike share locations, probably

Friday, May 11, 2012

Here are your East Village bike share locations, probably


The city has unveiled the preliminary locations for its NYC Bike Share program sponsored by ...


Now these aren't the final final locations ... a few could still change before the program launches in July. But for now.... (and I may have missed a few nearby ...)

• North side of East 2nd Street near Avenue B
This station will have 39 docks and will be located in the parking lane of the street.

• South side of East 6th Street near Avenue B
This station will have 28 docks and will be located in the parking lane of the street.

• North side of East 7th Street near Avenue A
This station will have 35 docks and will be located in the parking lane of the street.

• South side of East 10th Street near Avenue A (Tompkins Square Park)
This station will have 35 docks and will be located on the sidewalk.

• South side of East 13th Street near Avenue A
This station will have 39 docks and will be located in the parking lane of the street.

• South side of East 7th Street near First Avenue
This station will have 31 docks and will be located in a no-parking area of the street.

• South side of East 3rd Street near First Avenue
This station will have 31 docks and will be located in the parking lane of the street.

• South side of East 11th Street near Second Avenue
This station will have 39 docks and will be located in the parking lane of the street.

• South side of East 12th Street between Third Avenue and Fourth Avenue
This station will have 39 docks and will be located in the parking lane of the street.

• South side of East 2nd Street near Avenue C
This station will have 31 docks and will be located in the parking lane of the street.

• South side of East 5th Street near Avenue C
This station will have 31 docks and will be located in the parking lane of the street.

• North side of East 9th Street near Avenue C
This station will have 39 docks and will be located in the parking lane of the street.

• East side of Avenue D near East 11th Street (Riis Houses)
This station will have 23 docks and will be located in a NYCHA (public housing) development.

• East side of Avenue D near East 8th Street (Riis Houses)
This station will have 23 docks and will be located in a NYCHA (public housing) development.

• East side of Avenue D near East 3rd Street (Wald Houses)
This station will have 23 docks and will be located on the sidewalk.

• South side of East 3rd Street near First Avenue
This station will have 31 docks and will be located in the parking lane of the street.

• South side of East 2nd Street near Second Avenue
This station will have 31 docks and will be located in the parking lane of the street.

• South side of East 4th Street near Second Avenue
This station will have 39 docks and will be located in the parking lane of the street.

• North side of East 7th Street near Second Avenue
This station will have 39 docks and will be located in the parking lane of the street.

• South side of East 12th Street between Third Avenue and Fourth Avenue
This station will have 39 docks and will be located in the parking lane of the street.

• Center of East 7th Street near Cooper Square (Cooper Triangle)
This station will have 39 docks and will be located in a public park or plaza.

• West side of Fourth Avenue near East 8th Street (Astor Place)
This station will have 55 docks and will be located in a no-parking area of the street.

Find the interactive map here.

Your reaction please in the comments.

Monday, May 7, 2012

[Updated] Here is the city's new Citi Bike

From the EV Grieve inbox...

NYC DOT and NYC Bicycle Share are happy to announce that Citi is the official sponsor of the NYC Bike Share system. Private sponsorship, combined with user fees, means that no taxpayer dollars will be used to operate the system in NYC.

Citi Bike is a revolutionary new way for you to get around New York City, scheduled to launch summer 2012. Bike sharing expands your transportation options; it empowers you to go your own way.

Citi Bike is a self-service system that provides members with easy access to a network of thousands of bicycles. Pick up a bike close to home or work, ride, then return it to any of the hundreds of stations to be located throughout the city.

Citi Bike will consist of 600 stations, 10,000 bikes in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Visit CitiBike to learn more about system pricing, membership, upcoming events and system launch.

Here’s one of the first shots of the bikes. We can’t wait to see them action on New York’s streets!


Hmm.

No word yet on where some of the 600 share locations will be ... there will, of course, be several bike stations around the East Village...

Last October, we got a sneak preview when the Great New York City Bike Share Tour made a stop on Avenue A along Tompkins Square Park...


[Photos by Bobby Williams]

I liked the idea a little more when the bikes didn't look like an ATM on wheels. Will you take a CitiBank bike for a cruise? Oh, and here's the price list...

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Here's your new East Ninth Street bike rack

Let's take a quick look at the bicycle parking rack that the DOT installed this morning in front of MUD on East Ninth Street... via EV Grieve reader Robert...



And the final product, via EV Grieve reader MP, who started off all this coverage today... A few people believe that this is the first one not only in the neighborhood, but also in the city (haven't verified this, but...)


Previously.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Watch a bike disappear a little every day during 2011

From the EV Grieve inbox...via a company called Red Peak...



Last year, we conducted a unique urban experiment for Hudson Urban Bicycles. On January 1, 2011 we chained a fully loaded bike — bells, basket, lights and more — to a post along a busy Soho street. We took a picture of the bike everyday for 365 days, watching it slowly vanish before our eyes. The photos we took were then turned into a daily calendar. We call this project LIFECYCLE: 365 days in the life of a bike in NYC.

We call it 51 seconds of fine lunchtime entertainment.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Mayor Bikenstein!


From the bike haters in today's Post:

He’s grappled with teacher unions, gun sellers and public pensions, but as his third term heats up, it’s becoming clear what Mayor Bloomberg’s most visible legacy will be — remaking, or rather undoing, the city’s streets.

He’s squeezed out cars in favor of floral planters, OK’d “pop-up” cafes and bike lanes, but the pedaler-in-chief saved the crown jewel of changes for last — a public-rental program deploying 10,000 bicycles to 600 sidewalk kiosks. The initiative, which will be the third-largest in the world, behind Paris and Hangzhou, China, will be tested this summer, and rolled out in 2012. Critics say it’s community sentiment be damned.


Do people have any say in this? They have to walk somewhere,” said Andrew Albert, transportation co-chair of the Upper West Side’s Community Board 7, about the large bike racks the city plans to install pretty much everywhere.

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Signs of spring: Peter Corbin, aka the Bike Man


Back on the corner of Seventh Street and Avenue A. (Read more about him here. BoweryBoogie recently noted the return of another bike repairman, Natividad Zirate.)

Photo by Bobby Williams.

Friday, April 8, 2011

Iconic blizzard bike gone missing

This iconic photo became one of the iconic shots of the iconic Blizzard of Dec. 26, 2010....






A little later ...



And now! EV Grieve reader AC notes that the bike has gone missing...


Perhaps just taking out to get a seat....?

Previously on EV Grieve:
Exclusive: Q-and-A with the bike that became an iconic symbol of the 2010 Holiday Blizzard

Friday, January 14, 2011

Today in law enforcement notices


From Scoopy's Notebook in the week's issue of The Villager:

Bikers pedaling in the Sixth Precinct — between 14th and Houston Sts., west of Broadway — better keep on their toes. Sixth Precinct police are issuing warnings to bicycle riders to obey the rules, such as the ones that say, except for riders under the age of 12 on bikes with wheels less than 26 inches in diameter, cyclists must ride on the street, in the direction of vehicular traffic, and not on sidewalks.

Iconic blizzard bike quickly alienating neighbors with new crowd


Sighing...

Previously on EV Grieve:
Exclusive: Q-and-A with the bike that became an iconic symbol of the 2010 Holiday Blizzard

Friday, December 31, 2010

The bikes of East 11 Street sneer at the 8th St upstart

Oh boy. I was afraid of this. The other day, I interviewed the bike that lives on Avenue C and Eighth Street, which became an iconic symbol of the great blizzard of Dec. 26-27, 2010.

I figured the Getty photo by Mario Tama would trigger some jealousy among other bikes in the neighborhood. But nothing like what you'll about to read. (I wish that they could just be happy for her.)

EV Grieve reader Lisa passes along these photos ... and a message:

We, the Buried Bikes of 11th and A, hereby challenge 8th and C to a showdown — um, throwdown — er, snowdown! Bring it on!





I just wish that we could all get along.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Exclusive: Q-and-A with the bike that became an iconic symbol of the 2010 Holiday Blizzard

Friday, November 26, 2010

Breaking: Delivery bike removed from Stuy Town

We just noted the presence of an abandoned restaurant delivery bike that has been locked to this tree in 4 Stuyvesant Oval in Stuy Town since.... Halloween!



EV Grieve reader Nixta now reports that, as of this morning, workers removed the bike!

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

CBS 2 finds that some bicyclists ride through red lights and stuff in the East Village

CBS 2 camped out in the East Village to find some outlaw bicyclists. And they did! It's Bike Bedlam! (Catchy!)

NEW YORK (CBS 2) – The NYPD is on a ticket blitz, giving cyclists more than 15,000 violations so far this year. Many pedestrians say it’s about time and fear the city’s push to get people pedaling has led to danger on the streets and sidewalks. Some have even dubbed it “bike bedlam.”

The Big Apple is racing to become the bike capital of the world and the Bloomberg administration has added more bike racks, paths and lanes.

However, as CBS 2’s Tony Aiello found out, spending a few minutes along the new bike lane on First Avenue makes clear that plenty of New Yorkers have little liking for the biking.

It would be one thing if the bike riders obeyed the lights and things — they don’t,” Lower East Side resident Amber Rogers told Aiello.

In a recent 20 minute period at First Avenue and Sixth Street, CBS 2 counted 17 bike riders running red lights and more than two dozen riding the wrong way and against traffic.


There's video, but CBS embedded the wrong code....

Thanks to EV Grieve reader Creature for the tip.

StreetsBlog discussed some of CBS2's week-long report here.

Monday, August 9, 2010

Please do not attempt any of this in the new First Avenue bike lanes

The King of New York BMX competition rolled into Tompkins Square Park over the weekend...



Thanks to EV Grieve reader Steve for the photos...






And I hope that nobody gets any funny ideas now about the new First Avenue or Second Avenue bike lanes....

Friday, July 23, 2010

Movie about bicycle messenger currently blocking bike lane

The "Premium Rush" shoot is getting under way on Avenue A this afternoon... thanks to EV Grieve reader Liam for these photos...




Doesn't the crew know what we've been discussing here?

Previously on EV Grieve:
Rush Hours