Bike New York
@bikenewyork.bsky.social
New York City nonprofit organization providing free bike education, community programming & advocacy for safe and inclusive cycling.
We also produce the USA's largest bike ride: the TD Five Boro Bike Tour
www.bike.nyc
We also produce the USA's largest bike ride: the TD Five Boro Bike Tour
www.bike.nyc
Here's our vid going dozens of blocks on a single green on Manhattan's 3rd Avenue - signal timing is a non-enforcement way to get a handle on ebike (and 🚘 🚛!!) speeds
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Here's our vid going dozens of blocks on a single green on Manhattan's 3rd Avenue - signal timing is a non-enforcement way to get a handle on ebike (and 🚘 🚛!!) speeds
It’s now the law that cabs/ubers must display an anti-dooring decal on passenger doors (thanks to @cmjengutierrez.bsky.social).
So if you happen to travel that way, take a look & make a note if it’s not there
(Last night’s fatal crash doesn’t seem to have been a for-hire car)
So if you happen to travel that way, take a look & make a note if it’s not there
(Last night’s fatal crash doesn’t seem to have been a for-hire car)
October 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
It’s now the law that cabs/ubers must display an anti-dooring decal on passenger doors (thanks to @cmjengutierrez.bsky.social).
So if you happen to travel that way, take a look & make a note if it’s not there
(Last night’s fatal crash doesn’t seem to have been a for-hire car)
So if you happen to travel that way, take a look & make a note if it’s not there
(Last night’s fatal crash doesn’t seem to have been a for-hire car)
Council Member @cmrestler.bsky.social reports he is discussing better design for bus stops along the Flushing Ave greenway. Right now the demarcated greenway walking & cycling zones devolve into incoherent sidewalks at the stops. A person getting off a bus was recently killed by an ebike rider
October 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Council Member @cmrestler.bsky.social reports he is discussing better design for bus stops along the Flushing Ave greenway. Right now the demarcated greenway walking & cycling zones devolve into incoherent sidewalks at the stops. A person getting off a bus was recently killed by an ebike rider
Yes! We are here for Greenway-branded wayfinding signs aimed at those outside of 🚘 🛻
October 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Yes! We are here for Greenway-branded wayfinding signs aimed at those outside of 🚘 🛻
Anyone see anything about the “e-bike speed limit” other than in the press?
October 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Anyone see anything about the “e-bike speed limit” other than in the press?
Round 2 of workshops to develop the Queens Waterfront Greenway begins next week!
Tuesday, October 28 from 6-8pm at the Louis Armstrong House Museum (34-56 107th St.) in Corona
Sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Tuesday, October 28 from 6-8pm at the Louis Armstrong House Museum (34-56 107th St.) in Corona
Sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
October 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Round 2 of workshops to develop the Queens Waterfront Greenway begins next week!
Tuesday, October 28 from 6-8pm at the Louis Armstrong House Museum (34-56 107th St.) in Corona
Sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Tuesday, October 28 from 6-8pm at the Louis Armstrong House Museum (34-56 107th St.) in Corona
Sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Looks like we’ll finally get the overnight *full bikeway* markings we’ve been 👀 for since spring #morespaceQBB #bikenyc (more pedestrians in the bikeway today)
October 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Looks like we’ll finally get the overnight *full bikeway* markings we’ve been 👀 for since spring #morespaceQBB #bikenyc (more pedestrians in the bikeway today)
We were informed late last week that the *Gateway Tunnel project* (NYC-NJ rail connection) will dig up the W Side Greenway betw 29th & 30th Sts next year
Good news is the #bikenyc right of way will be maintained
It doesn't test whether the W Side Hwy can live with fewer lanes - instead it's 🚲 > 🚁
Good news is the #bikenyc right of way will be maintained
It doesn't test whether the W Side Hwy can live with fewer lanes - instead it's 🚲 > 🚁
October 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
We were informed late last week that the *Gateway Tunnel project* (NYC-NJ rail connection) will dig up the W Side Greenway betw 29th & 30th Sts next year
Good news is the #bikenyc right of way will be maintained
It doesn't test whether the W Side Hwy can live with fewer lanes - instead it's 🚲 > 🚁
Good news is the #bikenyc right of way will be maintained
It doesn't test whether the W Side Hwy can live with fewer lanes - instead it's 🚲 > 🚁
Anyone's guess when other problem spots along the E Side Greenway will be fixed. The Hospital for Special Surgery *private construction* disruption of the greenway was supposed to be done 2 years ago
October 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Anyone's guess when other problem spots along the E Side Greenway will be fixed. The Hospital for Special Surgery *private construction* disruption of the greenway was supposed to be done 2 years ago
Anyway, in the *long* term, this is great. It will finally connect the long-stranded waterfront greenway segment between 132nd/145th and connect to a new ramp to the Manhattan-Randall's span of the Triboro
October 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Anyway, in the *long* term, this is great. It will finally connect the long-stranded waterfront greenway segment between 132nd/145th and connect to a new ramp to the Manhattan-Randall's span of the Triboro
The two-way section on 1st Ave (~103rd to 125th) is working pretty well, in our experience. Bike volume & signal timing are important factors. We aren't enthused about the idea of 2-way 6th in Midtown as a substitute for a 🚲 lane on 5th, for example. (1st is 2-way because of work on 2nd Ave subway)
September 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The two-way section on 1st Ave (~103rd to 125th) is working pretty well, in our experience. Bike volume & signal timing are important factors. We aren't enthused about the idea of 2-way 6th in Midtown as a substitute for a 🚲 lane on 5th, for example. (1st is 2-way because of work on 2nd Ave subway)
We need a lot more parking enforcement in NYC. The city has never even looked at the scale of the problem vs the resources it brings to the job. But it has gotten so bad that Council members proposed allowing citizens to submit violations (Council leaders killed that but did nothing else)
September 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
We need a lot more parking enforcement in NYC. The city has never even looked at the scale of the problem vs the resources it brings to the job. But it has gotten so bad that Council members proposed allowing citizens to submit violations (Council leaders killed that but did nothing else)
The Court Street bike lane (being implemented now) plus the greenway over the Gowanus Canal/under the expressway adds a nice protected corridor to Brooklyn's #bikenyc network
September 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The Court Street bike lane (being implemented now) plus the greenway over the Gowanus Canal/under the expressway adds a nice protected corridor to Brooklyn's #bikenyc network
NYC Greenways Coalition members at work, scouting a greenway detour on abandoned Riverside Park pathways near the GWB -- for the day when Amtrak closes (for rebuilding) ye olde wooden plank bridge. It's doable! @transalt.org @ny4p.bsky.social @eastcoastgreenway.bsky.social #Greenways4NYC
September 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
NYC Greenways Coalition members at work, scouting a greenway detour on abandoned Riverside Park pathways near the GWB -- for the day when Amtrak closes (for rebuilding) ye olde wooden plank bridge. It's doable! @transalt.org @ny4p.bsky.social @eastcoastgreenway.bsky.social #Greenways4NYC
To make this a more effective safety strategy, it would help if DOT actually informed people this is a thing (old pic from the N Point St in SF)
August 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
To make this a more effective safety strategy, it would help if DOT actually informed people this is a thing (old pic from the N Point St in SF)
And the case for some kind of physical delineator in the door-buffer zone just makes itself every time we're in a NYC "parking protected" bike lane
August 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
And the case for some kind of physical delineator in the door-buffer zone just makes itself every time we're in a NYC "parking protected" bike lane
In the sped-up vid it can be hard to appreciate how the *offset intersection* approach slows turning drivers - big contrast to older "mixing zone" approach. Plus the signal timing means cars are likely approaching turns at slow speed
August 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
In the sped-up vid it can be hard to appreciate how the *offset intersection* approach slows turning drivers - big contrast to older "mixing zone" approach. Plus the signal timing means cars are likely approaching turns at slow speed
Lots of talk about controlling bike speeds. What if there was a carrot vs the fantasy of an enforceable speed limit?
The city has indeed timed signals on 3rd Ave for a reasonable 🚲 speed
Here's 32 blocks all on the green. Savvy riders figure out there's no incentive for throwing down here
The city has indeed timed signals on 3rd Ave for a reasonable 🚲 speed
Here's 32 blocks all on the green. Savvy riders figure out there's no incentive for throwing down here
August 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Lots of talk about controlling bike speeds. What if there was a carrot vs the fantasy of an enforceable speed limit?
The city has indeed timed signals on 3rd Ave for a reasonable 🚲 speed
Here's 32 blocks all on the green. Savvy riders figure out there's no incentive for throwing down here
The city has indeed timed signals on 3rd Ave for a reasonable 🚲 speed
Here's 32 blocks all on the green. Savvy riders figure out there's no incentive for throwing down here
In case you haven’t been shaken by it yet, a good part of 2nd Ave is *milled*
Scene at 95th
Scene at 95th
August 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
In case you haven’t been shaken by it yet, a good part of 2nd Ave is *milled*
Scene at 95th
Scene at 95th
Leading mayoral candidate @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social renews his pledge to complete the McGuinness Blvd road diet, following allegations the Adams Admin took bribes to water down the project
August 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Leading mayoral candidate @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social renews his pledge to complete the McGuinness Blvd road diet, following allegations the Adams Admin took bribes to water down the project
We've noticed this paint-only one in Sunnyside (43rd St @ Qns Blvd) - it's had a 🚗 parked on it in half of our observations
August 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
We've noticed this paint-only one in Sunnyside (43rd St @ Qns Blvd) - it's had a 🚗 parked on it in half of our observations
These are some of the corners on the degraded segments of Bedford. When the bike lane is blocked (all 3 blocks on a recent trip) & you're riding up the travel lane, dunno why you would dive over to this on the corner
August 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
These are some of the corners on the degraded segments of Bedford. When the bike lane is blocked (all 3 blocks on a recent trip) & you're riding up the travel lane, dunno why you would dive over to this on the corner