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E Bikes
neighborhood news
June 29, 2024
The Citi Bike Battery Crew Racing to Keep 15,000 Bikes Online
Most docks don’t charge e-bikes (yet). These folks do.
By
John Surico
getting around
May 9, 2024
Tiny Electric Trucks Are Coming to a Bike Lane Near You
They’re part of New York City’s plan to use pedal power to get all those packages to your door.
By
John Surico
cityscape
Mar. 25, 2024
Can I Interest You in a Fresh Charge?
Baruch Herzfeld wants to end the rash of e-bike-battery fires.
By
Mark Jacobson
getting around
Jan. 8, 2024
The Flatbush Chick-fil-A Crunch
Long waits, wrong-way drivers, and canceled orders at the chain’s only franchise in Brooklyn.
By
Clio Chang
getting around
Nov. 8, 2023
Licensing E-Bikes Won’t Make the Sidewalks Safer
“Every few years it’s the same neighborhoods asking the city to go after the same group of people.”
By
Clio Chang
getting around
Aug. 31, 2023
VanMoofers After the Bankruptcy
Will the Dutch e-bike’s acquisition by a new company be enough to restore riders’ faith?
By
Clio Chang
getting around
Aug. 30, 2023
‘Just Befriend the Doorman and Don’t Arouse Suspicion’
E-bike riders are sneaking past their buildings’ bans with flattery (and sometimes deception).
By
Clio Chang
mysteries
July 24, 2023
Why Are Citi Bike’s Electric Bikes Always Broken?
Some blame teen riders, but it’s likely the bikes themselves.
By
John Surico
getting around
June 23, 2023
An E-Bike Trade-in Program That No Delivery Workers Have Heard Of
Uber’s programs to get risky e-bikes off the streets have not reached — or convinced — many food-delivery workers who use them.
By
Gaby Del Valle
getting around
May 12, 2023
‘We Were Riding in a City That Simply Hadn’t Existed Just a Few Years Earlier’
Reflecting on a decade of Citi Bike with a dozen New Yorkers who made it happen.
By
Alissa Walker
getting around
Apr. 14, 2023
Uber Says It’s Trying to Fix the E-bike Battery Crisis
The company also helped create it.
By
Alissa Walker
getting around
Nov. 17, 2022
Don’t Blame the E-Bike
There’s fear and confusion after a surge of preventable battery fires.
By
Alissa Walker
getting around
Oct. 7, 2022
How Delivery Workers Won Their First Charging Hub
Data collected by the deliveristas pinpointed the first location, a newsstand by City Hall.
By
Wilfred Chan
getting around
July 9, 2022
NYCHA Delays E-Bike Ban As Delivery Workers Push Back
“You are forcing them to choose between their work and their home.”
By
Wilfred Chan
getting around
Jan. 25, 2022
E-Bike Batteries Are Setting a Record-breaking Number of Fires Every Year
And delivery workers are demanding that the city build safe charging stations.
By
Wilfred Chan