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City's First Bike Lot Just Needs 200K to Roll Forward
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John Del Signore
Published Jan 17, 2008
Modified Mar 7, 2008
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John Del Signore
Published Jan 17, 2008
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Preliminary rendering of what the bike parking lot could look like, courtesy The 34th Street Partnership
A group of business execs in the 34th Street Partnership are teaming up to build what would be New York’s first bikes-only parking lot; it would be located on space secured on West 33rd Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues.
As currently envisioned, the lot would have a full time attendant and hold 100 bikes, with room to expand. (The 2,600-square-foot lot is being provided by Stonehenge Management.)
Now the partnership just needs some friendly corporation to cough up 200K a year to fund the project. And if and when it happens, don’t count on finding a spot to lock your tall bike, punk. Most of the spaces on the rack will cost an unspecified fee; only “some” will be open to the rabble.
What the parking lot looks like now, photograph courtesy The 34th Street Partnership
The city has no plans to build bike lots like this, but they have been installing more bike racks. They added 800 in 2007, bringing the citywide total to 4,000. And the company that’s building the new bus shelters and newsstands has begun installing the first of 37 bike shelters; they’ve been popping up in Fort Greene, Long Island City and next to the Union Square Barnes and Noble.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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