Tag: Citi Bike
In an apparent effort to defend itself after Dorothy Rabinowitz’s insane comments about the “all-powerful bike lobby” and the “totalitarians” running the New York City government, the Wall Street Journal published a follow-up video addressing the backlash today. Titled “Yes, There Really Is a Bike Lobby,” the clip features Alex Kazam–a WSJ intern, as far […]
In the three weeks since it launched, Citi Bike has logged 250,000 rides that total almost 700,000 miles. Yay! But is bike share a thinly veiled totalitarian scheme to overthrow the spirit of democracy in NYC? Stay tuned! Casey Neistat, a filmmaker and well-known member of New York’s All-Powerful Bike Lobby, set out to answer […]
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 history of battling against bikes–one […]
In the first major victory for the whiners in their ongoing, inexplicable battle against bike share, a group of West Village residents have convinced the Department of Transportation to move a docking station that was originally positioned in front of their co-op building. DOT workers moved the station from the southeast corner of Barrow and […]
Those who are looking forward to the launch of New York’s bike share program finally have a date to start counting down to. Though the Department of Transportation is only officially saying the program will begin sometime this month, a source within the Citi Bike organization told Crain’s it will launch Memorial Day weekend, about two and […]
