The Sanitation Department has quickly reversed itself on a plan to remove all of the approximately 50 Ghost Bike memorials locked up around town. The original removal plan was part of a larger initiative to clear the sidewalks of derelict, broken down bikes that have been locked to city property (street signs, etc.) and forgotten. Those bikes would still be targeted under the proposal [pdf], but late yesterday the Sanitation Department issued a statement saying that a "memorial bicycle (ghost rider) will only be removed... if the memorial bicycle meets the derelict bicycle criteria." more ›

DKNY is usurping a grassroots campaign to memorialize cyclists killed in New York City's traffic, with a guerrilla marketing campaign to push their product. Above is a picture of several orange-painted DKNY bikes, first widely noted at BikeBlog. more ›

Eugenio Cidron, the man who killed bicyclist Eric Ng in 2006 after driving drunk down the West Side bike path instead of the West Side Highway following a holiday party at Chelsea Piers, was sentenced yesterday to three to 10 years in prison. Cidron had driven over a plastic pylon to enter the path from Chelsea Piers and had been driving south for a mile before hitting Ng, who was traveling north. more ›