Yesterday, after what felt like years of waiting, the city introduced us to the pricing scheme for its ambitious new bike share program, now dubbed CitiBike after its sponsor (Citibank). And the reaction was mixed. While many—including us! We swear!—are very excited to see the program prosper and bring more cyclists to the streets, its very aggressive pricing had us (and others) worried. Yes, New York's bike share will be the largest in the world but it will also be the most expensive. Well, sometimes. more ›

For the past few months the city has been talking to locals about where they want the share stations to live, and now we are getting closer to finding out where the winner locations will be. Because clearly the city can't put a station in every location that residents have suggested in the city. You wouldn't be able to cross the street! more ›

Last fall the NYPD decided to do something about pedestrians being struck by cyclists in Prospect Park by going on a ticketing binge. The Brooklyn Paper today got their paws on some stats—and the cops weren't kidding! more ›

If you lock your bicycle to a CityRack in SoHo, how long will it take before mendacious thieves pick its bones completely clean? Well, judging by the poor dismembered bike in this time-lapse video, a little under nine months—or 36 seconds. The designers and "brand strategists" at a company called Red Peak locked a fully loaded bike—basket, water bottle, bells, lights, etc.—on a busy street in SoHo and took a photo of it every day last year. Here is the sad story of that bike's consumption by a city starving for water bottles, spare bike parts and scrap metal: more ›

A 17-year-old cyclist was struck and killed by a truck in Harlem yesterday. According to a NYPD spokesperson, both the cyclist—who was only identified as a Hispanic male—and the truck were traveling westbound on 125th Street near Fifth Avenue when the truck struck the teenager. "I heard a crack," a witness told DNAinfo, noting that it sounded like "air coming out of him." more ›

How serious are the police taking their promise to slow down speeding bikers in Prospect Park? So seriously they are following the Daily News' lead and actively try to enforce the speed limit in the park. Still, "We’re not going to be jumping out of trees, ticketing for little things like wearing headphones," an NYPD spokesman told the Brooklyn Paper. more ›

Since September the city has had pedestrian safety managers on each of the East River bridges, an experiment set to end on November 26th when the DOT will review the $80,000-a-month program. But as far as the cyclist-hating Post is concerned, the program is already a total dud. They say that commuters have already decided the program isn't working, while quoting one cyclist, who had, according to their report, one collision. Now, we've been a bit skeptical of this whole thing ourselves, but just to be sure we decided to head over there yesterday to see what some of those glorified crossing guards had to say for themselves. more ›

After a taking a summer vacation, the anti-cyclist's favorite threat, cycling licenses and registration, returned to town last night at the Transportation Committee of the UES's Community Board 8, where a resolution "petitioning the city and state to require bicycle registration and some kind of identification for the vehicles, like a license plate" was approved. The nearly unenforceable idea now moves on to the full Community Board which will vote on it October 19th, before sending it on to City Hall and Albany. more ›

So you've been given the job of being a "pedestrian safety manager" on one of the city's Brooklyn/Manhattan bridges. From now until November 26 you have the fun duty of trying to bring peace between the bikers and walkers going over the spans between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. on weekdays (noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays). What do you think your hourly salary is? more ›

Stolen bikes are nothing new, but a bikejacking in broad daylight on the Upper West Side? We haven't heard about that kind of brazen crime in some time. And yet today My Upper West has a story on just such a theft. Bikers? Watch out for suspicious pedestrians standing in the middle of the road! more ›

Harlem—so hot right now! So hot that you will soon have the privilege of rolling up your pantleg to discover all of the neighborhood's hidden treasures via a good old-fashioned velocipede; after, that is, you've plunked down $34 for a steak at celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson's restaurant Red Rooster Harlem. more ›

Bicycles are great and all but baskets looks a little silly and in this heat backpacks just mean more back sweat. So what to do when you want to go for a ride but don't want to leave your bottle of red behind? There's an Etsy shop for that. more ›

New York City's roadways are crowded, we can all agree, but who knew they were paved with blood? In the past decade more New Yorkers have died in traffic than from guns, a new report, Vision Zero [PDF], from Transportation Alternatives reveals. Which helps explain how traffic incidents cost the city over $4 billion in 2009. more ›

Maybe the NYPD hasn't been all wrong in issuing summonses to bikers for breaking laws that don't exist. After all, they keep cyclists in bike lanes where they belong. But what would happen if a cyclist NEVER deviated from the bike lane? Watch this hilarious video to find out. more ›

Brooklyn City Councilman David Greenfield does not seem to be a big fan of bicycles. Durring the blizzard he complained about bike lanes being plowed and today he has introduced legislation that would require all bicycles used for commercial purposes to be registered, have license plates and insurance or face being stripped of their vehicles. At least it is a step down from Councilman Eric Ulrich's January proposal to license all bicycles? more ›

Today's balminess should signal the official return of all those casual cycling enthusiasts (who mysteriously vanish and render bike lanes obsolete from November through March) to the streets, but what if your obsession with spinning spokes is considered unhealthy by the medical community? Saturday's 7th annual Bicycle Fetish Day in Williamsburg is designed to make your proclivities seem socially acceptable. Hooray! more ›

A group of angry Queens residents booed a DOT representative and Mayor Bloomberg at a community meeting in the Rockaways last night, according to accounts in the Daily News and the Post. The jeers erupted after one local resident asked the DOT to get rid of the bike lanes that were installed last summer on the main thoroughfare of Beach Channel Drive. The response from Maura McCarthy, the DOT’s Queens Borough Commissioner, didn't go over too well. more ›

Over the weekend, we spoke with young City Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Queens), who is seriously proposing legislation that would require all cyclists over the age of 18 who use city streets to register with the city and affix IDs to their bikes. Ulrich told us, among other things, "This is the reality of the situation we're in, given the large number of people on bikes. And frankly, it's amazing this hasn't been passed already. The people on bicycles brought this on themselves by behaving this way." Meanwhile, ABC 7 was out on the streets getting reactions from diehard cyclists braving the frigid elements. But some of the cyclists they found might not be the best spokespersons for the anti-license side. more ›

[UPDATE BELOW] Days after a New Jersey Assemblywoman floated (and then quickly walked back) a plan to require bicycle riders to register with the DMV and put license plates on their bikes, City Councilmember Eric Ulrich (R-Queens) is joining the fun. Ulrich is proposing that all adult cyclists in NYC be required to affix an ID tag to their bikes. "There seems to be a double standard when it comes to enforcing the traffic laws," Ulrich tells the Post, explaining that many of his constituents are senior citizens. "People on bicycles scare the hell out of them. Sometimes they can be an intimidating presence on the city streets." Which reminds us how truck and car drivers used to scare the hell out of people, but then they they got licensed and now they're totally harmless! more ›