In typical March yo-yo weather style, we started to feel the warm dawn of spring when temps climbed to 70 degress, and then two weeks later the weather snapped back into a brilliant frost. At any rate, very soon we’ll be entering bicycle season. (Although of course for some of us it’s year round). We’ve examined the various types of bike racks along Manhattan Avenue, one of Greenpoint’s main bicycle thoroughfares, and the ways you can petition for more racks.
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Yes, Greenpoint desperately needs more bike racks, however, please not at the expense of free parking spots. I get that most of Greenpoint’s newest and soon-to-be residents mostly work in Manhattan and neither have a need for nor care about owning a car, but for those of us who have lived in Greenpoint with a family and depend on a car, private parking spaces are both extremely scarce and terribly expensive.