Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bicycle Parking

Eyes on the Street: Amsterdam

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 6, 2006 | 8 Comments

After Copenhagen, I visited Holland for a few days as a part of my German Marshall Fellowship. I will be writing more about some of the people I met and spoke with there, but for now I just wanted to share these photos from Amsterdam: For me, one of the things that makes Amsterdam and […]

Eyes on the Street: German Bike Parking

By Nick Grossman | Oct 5, 2006 | 14 Comments

Copenhagen is getting all the attention lately, but it’s not the only livable European city with great cycling facilities. Last week, I visited Munich for work, and found that the cycling culture there is strong, particularly as measured by the excellent bike parking facilities. They seem to be in all the right places: Outside the subway: Instead […]

Notes on Bicycling in Copenhagen

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 4, 2006 | 20 Comments

Copenhagen, Denmark is not a natural bicycling city. In the early 1960’s it was very much of a car town. In 1962 the city created its first pedestrian street, the Stroget, and every year since then Copenhagen has allocated more and more of its public space to bicycles, pedestrians and people who just want to sit […]

Another Model: Berkeley’s Bicycle Boulevard Network

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 27, 2006 | 12 Comments

Yesterday I showed some photos of the "Share the Road" Bike Route signs that were recently installed on Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn and that sparked an interesting discussion on different possible ways to design and build on-street bike paths. This summer I was in Berkeley, California for a friend’s wedding. NYCSR filmmaker Clarence Eckerson was […]

Billyburg bike bandits strike again

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 10, 2005 | 5 Comments

On Sunday, the New York Times City section ran a story called "The Bicycle Thief: It’s Not Who You Think." It went like this: On Wednesday, 28-year-old graphic designer Miao Wang rode her bicycle 12 blocks from her apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to the Bedford Avenue L subway station. She locked up, boarded her train […]