This wraps up Dmitry Gudkov’s series of bike-share-themed “Why I Ride” profiles on Streetsblog. Thanks Dmitry! From here on out, it’s just random chance if the subject of a “Why I Ride” post is smiling next to a Citi Bike. Sri is a programmer. He lives in New Jersey and takes the train to Penn Station. […]

“My whole family rides bikes, my kids have been riding the Citi Bikes too. The only problem is, we don’t have docks on the Upper West Side yet, so I can’t use it for commuting. But it’s been great for other small trips around town. I’m about to meet some friends, we’re all getting bikes […]

Hallie works at the nonprofit WaterAidAmerica. After seeing city after city get bike-share and then waiting two years for Citi Bike, she is thrilled the program is finally here. “I don’t have a bike. There’s no bike storage in my building and I’m beyond the age where I want a bike in my living room. […]

Jose is a computer science student at CUNY. He recently bought an annual membership to Citi Bike. “I live near Brooklyn College, so I take the subway into Manhattan. I also have a job at NYU, so I take a bike between school and work. On my way home, sometimes I ride a Citi Bike […]

Werner is a retired sociology professor living in Cobble Hill. He signed up for bike-share to help him get around the neighborhood (his nearest Citi Bike station is a couple of blocks away in Brooklyn Heights). At age 87, Werner finally gave up driving about a month ago. The bikes increase his range and riding […]

Carol is a talent manager. Before signing up for Citi Bike she had not been on a bike in New York in many years. She joined largely because of her cross-town commute. “I go from 44th and Lexington to 53rd and 8th. I normally take the subway — two trains — or I walk. Most […]

Stephanie had just commuted from Chelsea to her job in the Time-Life Building in Midtown, where she works in magazine publishing. “I don’t have a bike at home – my co-op actually doesn’t allow them. It’s a walk-up and there was damage to the walls from people carrying bikes up and down so the board […]

Ron is an engineer living in Williamsburg. He was riding back to his office from a meeting when we took the photo, then emailed me his thoughts about bike-share. “I was happy they added Williamsburg stations sooner than they had officially announced. I’ve been travelling over the Williamsburg Bridge each day and I’ve been pleasantly […]

Dan had just come back from a trip to the dentist via Citi Bike. He was full of ideas about how he will use bike share. Rather than replacing the subway, Dan said Citi Bike may change which lines he takes. “I live in lower Manhattan but my studio (Dan is an artist) is in Sunset […]

Emily lives in the East Village and commutes to Midtown. She was riding to work for the first time. Before becoming a Citi Bike member, she never rode a bike in New York. How do you commute to work when you’re not riding? “Usually I take the subway into work or I walk. I usually […]

Joe Zaro owns Zaro’s, a local chain of bakeries with locations in Grand Central and Penn Station, among others. He commutes to Manhattan from White Plains and often makes short trips between store locations and to meetings. He has a road bike that he uses to get around sometimes. He had just picked up a […]

I met I-Hsing on her morning commute from the South Street Seaport area, where she’d dropped off her kids at school, to her job near Bryant Park. She was riding a Citi Bike to work for the first time. In fact, as a non-bike owner, she was riding any kind of bike to work for […]