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Citi Bike’s Western Brooklyn Expansion to Complete in 2-3 Weeks

Citi Bike expansion into Sunset Park, Windsor Terrace, and Greenwood Heights is underway, NYC DOT announced today. The project is part of a 93 docking station expansion and will extend the bike’s services from 15th Street to 67th Street and from the southwest corner of Prospect Park to Church

Announcements

One Day Left To Give Feedback On Citi Bike Phase 3 Expansion

Citi Bike. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)BROOKLYN – There is just one day left to give feedback on the Citi Bike Phase 3 expansion, which means Citi Bikes might be coming down to Sunset Park, South Slope, and Windsor Terrace. The Department of Transportation (DOT) has been collecting feedback from residents

Central Brooklyn

Planned to Take Citi Bike To Work? You Are Not Alone, And It Is A Problem

Photo: Compliments of the city’s website.If you’ve taken Citi Bike into Manhattan this week, you may have had trouble finding a place to dock your bike. The NYC Department of Transportation has seen at least a 50% increase in Citi Bikes going over the East River bridges

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More Citi Bikes Coming to More Brooklyn Neighborhoods by 2023

Citi Bike. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)BROOKLYN—Citi Bike will within the next four years be expanded in a number of Brooklyn neighborhoods, the city announced Tuesday. Bed-Stuy, Brownsville, Park Slope, Prospect Park South, Crown Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, East Flatbush and Sunset Park will all get more Citi Bike

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Lyft Adds Citi Bike To Their Rideshare App

BROOKLYN — Lyft has integrated Citibike into their rideshare app, giving more users the option to get around the borough on two wheels or four, though all the pedal assist bikes have been taken out of commission until the fall to improve the brakes. [https://ny.curbed.com/2019/5/13/

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More Citi Bikes for Greenpoint, Williamsburg Ahead of L Train Shutdown

WILLIAMSBURG – More Citi Bikes are coming to Williamsburg and Greenpoint ahead of the L Train Shutdown this winter as the NYC Department of Transportation looks to add capacity to existing bike stations across North Brooklyn. A draft of the new plan was presented to Community Board 1 in Williamsburg last

Central Brooklyn

DOT Explores Expanding Bike Share Program Across NYC With Dockless System

Mayor de Blasio announced [http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/760-17/five-borough-bike-share-mayor-de-blasio-nycdot-plans-expand-public-bike-share-with] last week that the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) released a Request for Expressions of Interest (RFEI) aimed at expanding bike sharing across all five boroughs. Citibike docking station in Fort Greene (Photo: BKLYNER)While the

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Citi Bike Thefts On The Rise Due To Improper Docking, Cops Warn

PROSPECT HEIGHTS – Commanding Officer Frank DiGiacomo warned attendees at the 78th Precinct’s Community Council meeting Tuesday night that there has been a recent increase in Citi Bike thefts in Park Slope due to users not docking bikes properly when they are through with their rides. > I docked a bike

Central Brooklyn

Citi Bike Rolls Into Central Brooklyn

CROWN HEIGHTS/PROSPECT HEIGHTS/PLG – Citi Bike [https://www.citibikenyc.com] will roll out the final phase of the bike share program’s 2017 expansion plan over the next few weeks, fulfilling the company’s goal to increase the number of shared blue bikes across NYC to 12,000 before

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Citi Bike Debuts New Flagship Facility In Gowanus

A Citi Bike station on 5th Avenue and 3rd Street outside of J.J. Byrne Playground and the Old Stone House. (Photo: BKLYNER)Gowanus – Elected officials, transportation advocates, and local union members joined Citi Bike [https://www.citibikenyc.com/] Tuesday morning (August 15) for a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the opening

News

Brooklyn Heights Resident Is Citi Bike’s First NYC Fatality

Photo via shinya [http://www.flickr.com/photos/shinyasuzuki/8858800731/sizes/z/in/photostream]A 36-year-old Brooklyn Heights man was killed by a charter bus in Chelsea while riding a Citi Bike Monday morning. Dan Hanegby, an investment banker at Credit Suisse, was cycling on West 26th Street between 7th

Feature

Meet The 25-Year-Old Cyclist Working To Make Brooklyn’s Streets Safer

Bahij Chancey. (Photo by Lindsay Abrams / BKLYNER)In what will turn out to be the final days of the Cobble Hill tavern Buschenschank, at a table pushed up against an open window that looks out at the intersection of Court and Sackett Streets, 25-year-old Bahij Chancey is sipping an Oktoberfest

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Overflowing, Passionate, And Civil Crowd Pack Citi Bike Hearing, And It’s About More Than Just Spokes

The Citi Bike public hearing was so crowded that there was an overflow room. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_

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DOT Declines To Attend Citi Bike Public Hearing; Will ‘Potentially Make Adjustments’ To Station Locations

NYC DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg (center, parking bike), Park Slope Civic Council co-President Gilly Youner (on bike), Council Member Brad Lander (center with tie, walking bike) and other officials rode into the unveiling of a new Citi Bike docking station on 5th Avenue near 3rd Street on August 25, 2016.

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Citi Bike Public Hearing Scheduled; Local Expansion Strikes Raw Nerve In Community

A Citi Bike station is now located on 5th Avenue and 3rd Street outside of J.J. Byrne Playground and the Old Stone House. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)The Transportation/Public Safety Committee [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb6/committees/transportation.page] of Community Board 6 [http:

Arts & Culture

Citi Bike To Host ‘Bike-In’ And Movie Night, But Will ‘The Goonies’ Be Good Enough?

A Citi Bike station is now located on 5th Avenue and 3rd Street outside of J.J. Byrne Playground and the Old Stone House. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)“The Goonies never say die [https://youtu.be/3eSl3X0brZU],” and neither will the proponents of the new Citi Bike

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Police Called To Scene Of Community Board 6 Meeting After Chaos Erupts Over Citi Bike Expansion

Chaos erupted over the Citi Bike expansion. (Video by Amy Holiday/Park Slope Stoop) Tensions and anger over the recent expansion of Citi Bike [/blog/politics/citi-bike-expansion-ushered-dot-city-community-leaders-5th-avenue-ribbon-cutting-2/] interrupted the agenda of Wednesday night’s Community Board 6 [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb6/index.page] General Meeting. What was expected

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Citi Bike Expansion Ushered In By DOT, City And Community Leaders With 5th Avenue Ribbon Cutting

[Left – Right] Kim Maier, Executive Director, Old Stone House; Gilly Youner, co-President, Park Slope Civic Council; CB6 District Manager Craig Hammerman; Daniel Wiley, Community Coordinator for Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez; John Frost, E.D. of Bikeshare Program, DOT; NYC DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg; Council Member Brad Lander; Doug Gordon, Brooklyn Spoke;

Arts & Culture

Weekend Events: Wallabout Walks, Free Citi Bike, Must See Movies And More

Be a cool cat and take a free bike ride this weekend. (Courtesy Brooklyn Bridge Animal Rescue Coalition.and Who’s Your Doggy)WINE TASTINGS: here’s a list of seven [/blog/2015/10/14/seven-places-to-enjoy-wine-tastings-in-fort-greene-clinton-hill/] weekly options! Myrtle Avenue’s KIDS GUIDE [http://myrtleavenue.org/kids-guide-to-myrtle-avenue/] also has great

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Citi Bike Expansion Into Park Slope Boasts More Stations Than Originally Planned

Photo via citi bike [https://instagram.com/p/5NusM5xiYP/?taken-by=citibike]More spokes are wheeling their way into the Park Slope and surrounding neighborhoods — even more than what was originally planned. The Department of Transportation announced that 73 new Citi Bike docking stations will be added to the neighborhoods covered

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Jobs Alert: Citi Bike Is Hiring Seasonal Workers At A Bed-Stuy Job Fair

Are you good with bike mechanics or don’t mind answering questions and troubleshooting problems over the phone? Then Citi Bike’s job fair [https://www.citibikenyc.com/jobs] with the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation could be for you. The job fair is TOMORROW (Wednesday, March 2) from 12:30-2pm

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CB6 Unanimously Approves Citi Bike Expansion To Park Slope

Draft of Citi Bike expansion. (Courtesy of DOT)The Community Board 6 Transportation Committee [http://www.brooklyncb6.org/committees/?a=detail&content_id=55] unanimously approved the Department of Transportation [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/home/home.shtml]‘s plan for Citi Bike [https://www.citibikenyc.com/] expansion

Brad Lander

Help Decide Where To Place Citi Bike Stations In Our Neighborhood

Photo via shinya [http://www.flickr.com/photos/shinyasuzuki/8858800731/sizes/z/in/photostream] Citi Bike [https://www.citibikenyc.com/] will be expanding into Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Gowanus, Park Slope, and Red Hook next year and Councilmember Brad Lander [http://bradlander.com] wants the neighborhood’s help in identifying

Carlos Menchaca

Have Your Say At The Citi Bike Community Planning Workshop

Citi Bike [https://www.citibikenyc.com/] is expanding into Community Board 6 [http://www.brooklyncb6.org/] and wants your feedback on where docking stations should be placed — although according to DNAinfo [http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20150429/red-hook/citi-bike-roll-into-red-hook-park-slope-next-2-years-officials-say] , it looks like the bike share program won’t make it

Citi Bike

Clinton Hill Shooter Makes Getaway On Citi Bike

A confrontation between two men near the intersection between Spencer Street and DeKalb Avenue this morning left one bleeding on the ground and the other fleeing – first via foot and then via Citi Bike. Police are searching for the suspect, described as a black man between 18 and 25 years