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NYC Bike Share Coming to Crown Heights

New York Observer

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The long-rumored local bike share program will indeed come to New York as soon as next summer in a partnership between the city and Alta Bike Share of — where else? — Portland, Oregon. The system will cover Upper Manhattan all the way down to the bottom tip, and across the water to Greenpoint and Crown Heights, Brooklyn, dwarfing existing programs in Washington, D.C. and Boston with a whopping 600 stations and 10,000 Bikes. Membership will be flexible, with an annual subscription likely costing less than a one-month unlimited MetroCard.

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10 Comments

  • In Da Hood

    Taking bets, on how many days it will be before all bikes are stolen by da brothers in our hood.

  • LeChayim

    A well-known chassidishe elder in Crown Heights greets a bike rider:
    “forr genzunterheid”.

  • To # 1

    Ch Cycles-Bike shop (located right next store to Empire Kosher) sells all bikes they pretty much have everything you need. Highly recommended.

  • Xstopher Reeve

    Does the rental fee cover a lifetime of power wheelchairs for anyone who becomes quadriplegic riding those things, that are meant for Europe and not the US?

  • MONTREAL BIKE SYSTEM

    ACTUALLY,… this system was all started in good old montreal. it’s called the bixi bike. montreal started it a few yrs ago, then last year sold it(bikes) to london.
    and just yesterday montreal sold this to new york for millions. so thanx ny, u just made montreal a bit richer and gave the factory over here many many continuous jobs. the factory for these bikes is in montreal and so will the call centres be based over here..
    we have had the bixi bike system here for a while, and it seems to be working out very well. i dont know why ny and london changed the name of the system. maybe something to do with copyright, but i think “BIXI BIKE”, is far more catchy than“B CYCLE.”
    SO TO THE LONDON COMMENT, THIS IDEA IS NOT ENGLISH, ITS ACTUALLY CANADIAN , FROM MONTREAL!! :))

  • David Hompes

    I remember this system in Amsterdam in the 1970’s, it was called “the white bike plan” (het witte fietsen plan) funded by the city.
    To make a long story short: Bikes wound up in the canals, found vandalized or stripped, or simply dissapeared.
    The plan eventually dissapeared after the tax payers outcry.

  • get your facts right

    They had those bikes in London for at least 10 years, but it came official 2 years ago in London.
    The first bikes were invented in England.