Eyes on the Street: Bike-Share Stations Come to Williamsburg

5:12 PM EDT on May 20, 2013

A bike-share station being installed at South 4th Street and Wythe Avenue on Saturday. Photo: ##https://twitter.com/BklynBiker/status/335818248203419648/photo/1##BklynBiker/Twitter##

Citi Bike's rollout to Long Island City, Greenpoint, Williamsburg, and eastern Bedford-Stuyvesant was delayed by damage from Hurricane Sandy. But it looks like bike-share will be establishing a toehold in Williamsburg, with new stations installed in time for the system's launch, now just one week away.

In December, DOT revealed that flooding damage at Citi Bike's Brooklyn Navy Yard warehouse had shrunk the initial rollout from 420 stations to 293. Then in April, Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan announced that the recovery from the storm damage was sufficient to launch with 330 stations.

A map from Citi Bike (left) shows four new stations in Williamsburg, while DOT's bike-share map shows nine new stations.

The active Williamsburg stations popped up on the online bike-share maps last week, but it's not yet clear how many will be installed in the neighborhood before Memorial Day. The Citi Bike website shows four active stations, while DOT's bike-share map shows nine. We have a request in with DOT about which stations will be ready when.

Stephen Miller

In spring 2017, Stephen wrote for Streetsblog USA, covering the livable streets movement and transportation policy developments around the nation. From August 2012 to October 2015, he was a reporter for Streetsblog NYC, covering livable streets and transportation issues in the city and the region. After joining Streetsblog, he covered the tail end of the Bloomberg administration and the launch of Citi Bike. Since then, he covered mayoral elections, the de Blasio administration's ongoing Vision Zero campaign, and New York City's ever-evolving street safety and livable streets movements.

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