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E-cycles are faster, heavier and more deadly: As death toll shows, it's time to end them
Early this month, after more than 10 years of operation, New York’s Citi Bike bicycle-share program marked a grim milestone: the first-ever death of a pedestrian hit by a Citi...
Inflation means Citi Bike price 'Lyft'
Beginning Jan. 28, annual memberships to Citi Bike will cost $185 plus tax, up from $179.
Major car wreck injures cyclist in the Bronx
Two cars collided on E. 163rd Street and Prospect Avenue about 2:30 a.m., causing one of the vehicles to ram into a person riding a Citi Bike, photos show.
Judge says Citi Bike rival can continue operating for now despite DOT lawsuit
A privately-run new bike share service can continue to operate its e-bikes in Manhattan for now despite city litigation to bring the company's operations to a halt, a judge ruled...
DOT sues to stop privately-run Citi Bike rival JOCO
New York City is suing to hit the brakes on a privately-run new rival to Citi Bike that is renting out e-bikes across Manhattan.
NYC hits new Citi Bike rival with cease and desist order
The city Department of Transportation sent the directive in a letter to JOCO, a transit start-up that began rolling out e-bikes for its new bike-share service in Manhattan this week.
Electric Citi Bike rival service coming to Manhattan
A privately-run rival to the New York City-backed Citi Bike program is set to roll out an all-electric-bike fleet across Manhattan next week. Transportation start-up JOCO will make hundreds of...
Safety, comfort: How NYC's next mayor can lure back commuters who left
Thanks to COVID, most New Yorkers are no longer captive to a five-day-a-week commute. How does the next mayor lure people back without choking the city on traffic? The pandemic...
Citi Bike set to become world's biggest bike-share outside of China
Citi Bike will expand into Upper Manhattan this month — making the bike-share system the largest in the world outside of those in China, the company said Wednesday. The incursion...
Promised electric Citi Bike rollout fizzles
Citi Bike's fleet of pedal-assist e-bikes has barely grown since its February launch despite a pledge to put "thousands" on city streets by the summer, its parent company admitted on...
A beginners' guide to biking, inline skating and skateboarding in NYC
Three local pros share their advice for beginners to start biking, skateboarding or inline skating.
Electric Citi Bikes return after being pulled for safety issues
Citi Bike's popular electric bikes will return Wednesday — 10 months after the company yanked them over safety issues. "A few hundred" pedal-powered e-bikes will hit city streets Wednesday morning,...
City Council wants NYPD to ease up on e-bike food deliverers
The City Council's public safety chair is demanding that the NYPD put the brakes on harassing e-bike food delivery workers. Councilman Donovan Richards -- with support from 14 colleagues --...
Man on small bike has big temper tantrum in NYC
"I had the light!" a guy with a foldable bike yells in Midtown Manhattan after a pedestrian supposedly gets in his way. Watch the heated, helmet-tugging exchange, filmed on the...
Dockless bikes are already clogging NYC sidewalks
It’s been only a few weeks since dockless bikes were launched in the city, and already scores are clogging sidewalks, broken down — or can’t be found at all. Uber...
NYC picks 5 companies to run dockless-bike program
The city has chosen five companies to run its dockless-bike program, officials announced Tuesday. Each company will operate in a different part of the city. Pace and Lime will serve...
Bikers are pulling off insane stunts with Citi Bikes
They’re the raddest bike-sharers around. Daredevil Lower East Side cyclists are turning clunky, notoriously heavy CitiBikes into their personal stunt bikes, pulling off gravity-defying stunts with wheelies across alleys and...
What I learned after 2,000 miles on a Citi Bike
The road to 2,000 miles on a Citi Bike has been bumpy — and it has nothing to do with the countless potholes I’ve hit along the way. I reached the...
Meet New York's top Citi Bikers
Citi Bike’s leading pedal pushers include riders who have logged more than 4,000 miles atop the blue cruisers. The avid riders say that they have spent a huge chunk of...
Citi Bike struggling to keep up with huge repair backlog
The Citi Bike repair backlog is so bad that recently one-third of the fleet was sitting in a Brooklyn warehouse waiting to be fixed by overworked mechanics, according to their...