According to Community Board 10 Chairwoman Henrietta Lyle, the first uptown Citi Bikes may be arriving in Harlem. Lyle told the board yesterday that two racks would be installed in the neighborhood: one at Frederick Douglass Boulevard and 155th Street, the other at Lexington and 98th.
Lyle questioned whether these were the ideal locations. “What about the rest of the community?” she said. “You are leaving out the nucleus of our community — 125th St.”
She has a point: they’re nowhere near each other, and, given that bikes must be returned to racks, riders’ only options are to go between the two stations or head downtown, as the next northernmost stations are at 59th.
Given the DOT’s stated position that it would like to expand Citi Bike, however, it seems clear that if there are two stations in Harlem, more will follow.
We should have expected the first Citi Bike-related lawsuits to be rolling in by now, but what's surprising is that they are unrelated to the bikes themselves. Two separate pedestrians plan to sue the city because they tripped over bike racks. The first actually seems reasonable: Howard Orlick, 52, is legally…
An unlikely group hopes to bring more bike share stations to North Brooklyn: Hasidim for Bikes, a Williamsburg-based organization which hopes to "give a voice to the silent majority of Hasidim who live in Hasidic neighborhoods and want bikes in their neighborhoods." The Hasidic community in Williamsburg has a long…
And there they are. The Citi Bike program has been launched, with 850 of 6,000 bikes in the stations as of this morning. Here's a map of the stations, right here. For now, the bikes are only available to people with memberships. Earlier this month, this bikeshare program reached 10,000 annual members. Welcome to the Bike…
