Reflecting on a decade of Citi Bike with a dozen New Yorkers who made it happen.
Shabazz Stuart, Oonee CEO and board member, StreetsPAC
: On my way home one Saturday morning not too long after the program launched, I realized that my subway line was down. I detest shuttle buses and I didn’t want to spend the money for a cab. Then, I realized that there was a third option. There is nothing quite like cycling through the city in the early dawn.: In the spring of 2020, we
. It quickly became clear that the program was fulfilling a need for New Yorkers to get out of their apartments — a way to socialize safely. Essential workers used their newly free Citi Bike memberships to get to work.started our rides during the pandemic, we wanted to choose a very centralized area to meet up. We picked the Brooklyn Museum because a few of us went to high school right up the street. There’s a Citi Bike dock right next to the museum and since we created these rides ‘come one, come all’ — not everyone owned a bike — it became very easy for people to grab a Citi Bike and go with us.My favorite Citi Bike memory was riding over the then-new Brooklyn Bridge bike lane a few days after it opened.
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