Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bicycle Parking

Eyes on the Street: What’s Wrong With This Picture?

By Brad Aaron | Dec 1, 2011 | 2 Comments

A few weeks ago muni-meters began popping up on the streets of Inwood. Naturally, this made me wonder if the city had considered turning the neighborhood’s defunct coin-op meters into bike racks. DOT has converted discarded meter poles into racks in other parts of the city, and livable streets advocates have long noted Inwood’s lack […]

City Council Bill Would Weaken Bikes in Garages Law, Keep Number of Spaces

By Noah Kazis | Nov 29, 2011 | 12 Comments

Two years after the City Council passed the Bicycle Access to Garages law, which set aside space for bike parking in commercial garages, legislators are turning their attention back to the issue. In response to low demand for the garage spaces, a bill sponsored by Queens rep Karen Koslowitz would loosen up some of the […]

That Was Quick

By Ben Fried | Aug 18, 2011 | 18 Comments

…and NYC’s first bike corral fills up with a dozen bicycles faster than you can parallel park an Escalade.

Eyes on the Street: NYC’s First Bike Corral Underway on Smith Street

By Ben Fried | Aug 18, 2011 | 25 Comments

Reader Jeremy Charette sends this shot from the corner of Smith Street and Sackett Street in Brooklyn, where a crew was installing what I believe to be a genuine first for NYC: on-street bike parking. Eight bike racks are getting bolted into the blacktop in what’s currently a no-standing zone. In addition to the added […]

Eyes on the Street: Parking Meter Reincarnated as Bike Rack

By Ben Fried | Jun 17, 2011 | 9 Comments

Hundreds of defunct parking meters are on their way to a second life as bike racks. Reader Joanna Oltman Smith sends this photo of DOT handiwork on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, where the columns of defunct coin-slot meters have been awaiting rebirth as bike racks for some time. Muni meters took over many blocks […]

Ratner Arena Will Include 400 Satanic Bike Parking Spots

By Ben Fried | Apr 5, 2011 | 13 Comments

Well, this doesn’t make up for the eminent domain abuse, inexcusable subsidies-slash-dealmaking, crappy urban design and extensive surface parking acreage, but the Wall Street Journal’s Jason Gay reminds us that the Brooklyn basketball arena financed by Bruce Ratner, Mikhail Prokhorov, and the taxpayers of New York State will include 400 bike parking spaces. Gay’s report […]

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