New York’s Citi Bike expands bicycle-share geographically

Citi Bike, which is operated by Lyft, announced it would install more than 100 stations for underserved communities in upper Manhattan and the Bronx including docks serving health-care and other essential workers at Harlem Hospital in Manhattan and Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx. The ongoing expansion, which will double the current service area and triple the number of available bikes to 40,000 in the coming years, will bring docked bike share to the Bronx for the first time, with stations in the South Bronx along with expanded service in Manhattan from the current northern boundary at 130th Street to 155th Street. The new station locations were selected with input from the City of New York’s Department of Transportation’s Suggest-A-Station online portal as well as multiple in-person community workshops co-hosted last fall by the Department of Transportation, Citi Bike, and local Bronx and upper Manhattan Community Boards.