Not-so-fun fact: According to the city’s DOT, it’s illegal to lock you bike to anything other than a bicycle rack. Thankfully, it’s not a law that seems to be enforced, but anyone who’s commuted by bicycle long enough will have the experience of finding the sign you locked your bike to removed so workers can tear up the sidewalk. The problem is that there are now approximately 131,000 cyclists in New York City and only......

Preliminary rendering of what the bike parking lot could look like, courtesy The 34th Street Partnership A group of business execs in the 34th Street Partnership are teaming up to build what would be New York’s first bikes-only parking lot; it would be located on space secured on West 33rd Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues. As currently envisioned, the lot would have a full time attendant and hold 100 bikes, with room to......