uptowngirl

Storing your bike at work

Are you one of those New Yorkers who rides a bike to work? does your work place allow you to store your bike on the premises? Apparently the city is encouraging this green mode of transportation but the building owners are playing spoil sport and putting a spoke in the wheel by trying to ban bikes from buildings.Our apartment building has a special bike room for the residents bikes and I know many other residential buildings also offer this facility in this city then why the fuss at commercial buildings?

http://www.amny.com/urbanite-1.812039/bikes-in-buildings-law-takes-some-on-frustrating-ride-1.2340555

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hhusted 2yrs+

No. I don't own a bike. But there is a tenant in the building where I live and she rides her bike to work. She chains it up in the lobby sometimes, or against the side of the building.

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Uraniumfish 2yrs+

There's so little space around, it's a real drag to find storage space for bikes, no matter how green you want to be. I know I grumbled when I saw a bike stored in our stairwell because I think it's an imposition on the other residents to expect to leave a bike in common areas.

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ajadedidealist 2yrs+

Word, @uraniumfish! At my mom's/family home in NYC, I need to go up to the doorman, get the bike room key, go down to the basement, open the bike room door, take out my bike, lock the bike room door, go out to the lobby upstairs, give the doorman the key back, THEN leave. Reverse it for the return journey (you can't park bikes in front of my building) and you get some serious delays and drags.

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Uraniumfish 2yrs+

Until biking really catches on as a mode of transport in the city, it will continue to be a big drag.

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NeverSleeps 2yrs+

One of my friends recently had their bike stolen from the stairwell, where it was left in front of their fourth floor walk-up - so I can understand the necessity of bike storage in the basement, however annoying it may be.

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uptowngirl 2yrs+

@ajadedidealist I think it's the same in our building where the bike room is on the basement level, the only difference is that we have a back door from where you can leave with your bike after having returned the key to the doorman.