What to do about abandoned bicycles?

ap · May 2011

There are two bikes chained to a parking meter outside our apartment that have been there at least 6 months. Buried in snow all winter, they're dirty and rusty, with flat tires. It's quite obvious no one is coming back to get these guys.

Is there someone we can call to take 'em away?

whynot_31 · May 2011

if they are secured to something public (like a sign) Department of Sanitation will remove them with a bolt cutter. Call 311

if they are secured to something private (like a fence), it is the supers problem

ap · May 2011

What if they're chained to one of those decorative 6-inch-high wrought-iron fences around a tree?

MOD · May 2011

There are these wonderful people I like to call the 'scrap metal fairies' that can solve this problem.

First use bolt cutters, toss chains, free these poor bikes souls... then lay them down to rest by the sidewalk. The wonderful people of Brooklyn will do the rest.

whynot_31 · May 2011

AP-

I'm not sure.

So, I would ask the super to do it, and if he declined, try again while saying "please" very nicely.

Then resort to trying 311.

snowboardqueen · May 2011

Please post your results as there is a stripped an abandoned motorcycle on Sterling off Rogers. That eye sore has been there over a yr.

blenderfish · May 2011

The DOT has a policy about removing "unrideable" bikes from public property. Call 311 and I bet they come by and take them.

whyfi · May 2011

You need to contact someone with authority, first. If you take a pair of bolt cutters to them yourself, you're open to charges of theft.

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