Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Sharing

Bike Habitat’s Charlie McCorkell: Citi Bike No Threat to NYC Bike Shops

By Ben Fried | May 28, 2013 | 17 Comments

Charlie McCorkell is a pioneering NYC bike advocate and the owner of one of the city’s most successful bike shops, Bicycle Habitat. His flagship store is on Lafayette Street, just north of Spring, which is right in the middle of the Citi Bike service area. After observing the first day of NYC bike-share from the store, […]

Bloomberg Was on Fire at Yesterday’s Bike-Share Presser

By Ben Fried | May 28, 2013 | 19 Comments

Yesterday’s Citi Bike announcement was maybe the last occasion to see Michael Bloomberg answer a whole string of bike-related questions from the NYC press corps in one sitting. The mayor has a reputation for jousting with reporters at these events, sometimes more crankily than others. Yesterday he was combative but clearly enjoying himself. He had […]

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Citi Bike Debuts in New York City!

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | May 28, 2013 | No Comments

Memorial Day 2013 marked a milestone in NYC transportation history: the debut of the city’s bike-share system, Citi Bike. At 330 stations, 6,000 bikes (of a planned 10,000) were available to more than 13,000 members who signed up for a yearly pass — and many of them couldn’t wait to hit the streets! The press conference […]

Early Adopters Take NYC Bike-Share for a Spin

By Stephen Miller | May 27, 2013 | 6 Comments

Today, New Yorkers turned out under sunny skies to try out bike-share for the first time. Citi Bike went live at 11:00 a.m., but a few New Yorkers discovered that their keys were working at some stations before the official start time this morning. By noon, it was easy to spot people pedaling bright blue bikes […]

On Bike-Share Opening Day, the Post Wears Its Rotten Heart on Its Sleeve

By Stephen Miller | May 27, 2013 | 20 Comments

This morning’s headline stack was full of attempts by the New York Post to pour cold water on today’s bike-share launch. The tabloid is so committed to its cause, it plastered it on its front cover, just below the day’s most important celebrity gossip. Like the rest of the NYC press corps, the Post is […]

Citi Bike Draws the Curious, From NYC and Beyond

By Brad Aaron | May 27, 2013 | 1 Comment

It wasn’t yet 11:00 when I got to the mammoth bike-share station on Eighth Avenue at 31st Street, which sits along the protected bike lane in front of the Post Office across from Penn Station and Madison Square Garden, but I hadn’t unpacked my camera before a Citi Bike user pedaled by. For the next hour […]

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