Urban design bracket challenge down to elite eight
It’s March Madness for city planners, too. In basketball it’s down to the Final Four, and the Atlantic Cities Urbanist Toolkit urban design tournament is now down to the elite eight. The bracket pit...
View ArticleNew bike share station spotted in Bed-Stuy
A Citi Bike Share station has appeared in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, on the corner of Grand and Fulton Streets — NYC’s long planned bike share program will be starting in May, and locations are planned...
View ArticleRiding the future of the Brooklyn Waterfront Conference
On Friday, March 22, the Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center and University Transportation Research Center hosted “Bikes and the Brooklyn Waterfront: Past, Present, and Future.” The speakers delved...
View ArticleBike to work week is approaching!
Biking to work every day is highly recommended, but if only for a day or a week out of the year, join thousands of other cyclists who will celebrate Bike Month beginning May 13, with Bike-to-Work Day...
View ArticleCiti Bike protested by sculpture
Citi Bike launched this week in Manhattan and Brooklyn to much fanfare and consternation. A Clinton Hill resident, cartoonist Alex Gruss, found a creative way to share his opinion of Citi Bikes. He...
View ArticleLive global bike share map
As you see blue Citi Bikes dashing around the city, or as you listen to Dorothy Rabinowitz’s diatribe against bike share and face palm it, you may be curious about other bike shares around the globe....
View ArticleSeven miles of NYC, open to feet and bikes
Early Saturday mornings are often special in New York, as the city catches its breath after the pell mell work week. During Summer Streets each August (this year, 8/3, 8/10 and coming up one more time...
View ArticleFootbridge to the future?
Governor’s island. Photo: run-nyc.com Here’s an idea: a new bridge in New York, to add to our 2,000. It’s called … New Bridge. Only bikes and feet allowed, and it would connect Governors Island and...
View ArticleBike-lovers united
Jumble visitors lock up on a nearby street in Red HookPhoto by Erin Wong Have wheels, will travel—carbon-free! This past Sunday, New York City’s Bike Jumble was teeming with bicycles and bicyclists...
View ArticleThe world slackline championship comes to Central Park
Toru “Gappai” Osugi from Japan, mid-flip “This is the first time this has happened in the world, ever,” said one of the announcers at the World Slackline Federation World Championships. New York had...
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