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5th Ave and 18th St

2010-01-09T12:39:00.000-05:00

25th St btwn 5th Ave & Broadway

2010-01-07T09:21:00.000-05:00

43rd St btwn 2nd & 3rd Ave

2009-11-27T15:28:00.000-05:00

Baxter btwn Canal & Hester

2009-11-07T14:21:00.000-05:00

The first Broken Bike pic with my new DROID. I'm up to a 5MP camera now. You'd think I'd be happy about such a huge camera upgrade from my original Palm Zire, but in truth I miss the low-res, grainy pics of the Zire. It had a distinct aesthetic. Maybe I'll pick one up on eBay just for kicks.

Sullivan btwn Spring & Prince

2009-09-12T11:38:00.000-05:00

19th St btwn 5th & 6th Ave

2009-09-06T23:38:00.000-05:00

Broome btwn West Broadway & Wooster

2009-09-04T12:38:00.000-05:00

45th btwn Lex & 3rd

2009-08-27T18:15:00.000-05:00

Back to work at RHT and score a gorgeous stripped rim for the collection

K St & 31st St, DC

2009-08-15T16:46:00.000-05:00

5th Broken Bike outside of NYC. This one is down in DC. I was meeting up with my sister, bro-in-law, and their kids.

3rd St & 1st Ave

2009-07-25T11:08:00.000-05:00

LMAO! Handlebars in the trash!!

Elizabeth btwn Grand & Broome

2009-07-18T11:23:00.000-05:00

2nd Ave & 11th St

2009-06-27T15:05:00.000-05:00

I wish this one was in focus. I really like the simplicity and contrast.

39th St btwn 2nd & 3rd Ave

2009-06-25T13:27:00.000-05:00

and 3 days later I found a different Broken Bike on the same block

39th St btwn 2nd & 3rd Ave

2009-06-22T14:53:00.001-05:00

6th St btw 1st Ave & Ave A

2009-05-31T14:20:00.000-05:00

Same block, 3rd Bike.

6th St btw 1st Ave & Ave A

2009-05-31T14:19:00.001-05:00

Same block, 2nd Bike.

6th St btw 1st Ave & Ave A

2009-05-31T14:06:00.000-05:00

Ave C & 10th St

2009-05-31T13:24:00.001-05:00

I love LES and Alphabet City. When I'm jonesin for some Broken Bikes, I just roll on down and shoot to my heart's content.

Mulberry btwn Prince & Spring

2009-05-30T15:47:00.000-05:00

HUFFY BMX!!! and it's called UPROAR!! /RAWR

39th St btwn 2nd & 3rd Ave

2009-05-28T18:52:00.000-05:00

It's not out of focus. You're drunk. Sober up man, really.

Houston and Norfolk St

2009-05-25T17:00:00.001-05:00

I was on a tear today, snagging new bikes for the collection EVERYWHERE

Ave A btwn 1st & 2nd St

2009-05-25T16:14:00.000-05:00

29th St btwn 2nd & 3rd Ave

2009-05-25T10:47:00.001-05:00

At first I thought "maybe this isn't broken, maybe they just took the seat with them." But I doubt they took the seat AND the handlebars. Who knows, maybe they did. But I'm calling this broken until proven otherwise.

Spring Street 6 Train Station

2009-05-10T12:04:00.000-05:00

I know this is really hard to see, but if you can make out that semi-round shape in the darkness, that is actually a rim of a tire. Couldn't resist snagging it for the collection.

Park Ave South btwn 28th & 29 St

2009-04-25T13:56:00.000-05:00

3rd Ave btwn 37th & 38th St

2009-04-25T11:50:00.001-05:00

A plethora of Broken Bikes. Zero sympathy for anyone that locks there bike up to this post.

Greenwich & Murray

2009-03-30T18:23:00.000-05:00

Silver Spring Metro Station, MD

2009-03-27T01:36:00.000-05:00

I went down to DC for a weekend to help my sister and her family move. My brother-in-law was on his way to pick me up at the Silver Spring Metro Station when I noticed this baby. I think this is only my 4th Broken Bike outside of NYC

42nd St & 3rd Ave

2009-03-21T18:52:00.000-05:00

Wooster btwn Prince & Houston

2009-02-04T23:50:00.000-05:00

Park Row & Murray St Ext.

2009-02-02T16:37:00.000-05:00

OK OK. It's not technically broken. But I couldn't resist the snow covered bike.

Chambers btwn Broadway & Church

2009-01-31T13:28:00.000-05:00

18th St btwn 5th & 6th Ave

2009-01-24T18:08:00.000-05:00

57th St & 7th Ave

2009-01-23T12:44:00.002-05:00

Two broken bikes in one of the busiest intersections in the heart of the city. Never ceases to amaze me how people are ripping these to pieces in the middle of all this activity.

Broadway between 57th & 58th St

2009-01-23T12:43:00.000-05:00

2nd Ave & 7th St

2008-11-15T11:54:00.000-05:00

dunno

2008-11-08T21:31:00.000-05:00

37th & 3rd

2008-11-08T13:56:00.000-05:00

Bowery btw Kenmare & Spring

2008-10-29T23:49:00.001-05:00

Bowery btw Grand & Broome

2008-10-26T12:56:00.000-05:00

AH! The new Blackberry Curve takes wonderful pictures!
This blackberry marks the 4th device i've used to capture images for this blog (and my other blog too). Those devices were a Palm Zire 71, Palm Treo 700p, Motorola krzr, and now a RIM Blackberry 8330 Curve.

The Palm Zire will always be my favorite for its grainy low res images. I miss that clunky old thing.

But the new Curve will no doubt serve me well. It even has a built-in flash for night shots down in the village.

Lafayette btw Prince & Spring

2008-09-05T18:48:00.001-05:00

Hands down one of my new favorites. It says "STOLEN" in chalk on the sidewalk with arrows pointing to the bike and a chalk outline of a rider on a bike. Of course this is outside of a bike shop at the same location and they probably use it as an extremely effective sales technique to sell some hardcore locking mechanisms. The best part about this shot is that carnage is probably only 1-2 days old. Meaning they left a complete bike semi-chained to the pole out for just 1 night. The results are obvious.

Baxter btw Hester and Canal

2008-08-31T13:10:00.000-05:00

The back rim in bent out of shape, though that is difficult to see from this angle.

Hester btw Baxter and Centre

2008-08-31T11:26:00.000-05:00

Stripped clean down in Chinatown.

2nd Ave & St. Mark's Place

2008-08-22T08:20:00.000-05:00

I think that's the right location. I took this pic from a cab and didn't record the exact location, but I'm pretty sure that's it.

dunno

2008-08-17T00:01:00.000-05:00

I didn't record this location. It's probably somewhere around the Angelica Theater in SoHo.

Stanton and Orchard

2008-08-16T19:52:00.000-05:00

And then of course on our way out and heading to go see The Wackness.

Orchard btw Houston and Stanton

2008-08-16T15:09:00.000-05:00

On my way to a watering hole to catch up with my cousin Maryclaire (she's in the blue dress in the background, everyone wave). LES never fails to disappoint.

Houston btw Mott & Mulberry

2008-08-16T14:52:00.001-05:00

38th btw 8th & 9th Ave

2008-08-13T15:32:00.000-05:00

Avenue A btw 11th & 12th St

2008-08-11T15:49:00.000-05:00

I found this on the last leg of my quest for Pepsi in a bottle. Surprisingly after wandering all over the East Village this was the only broken bike that I found.

18th St btw 5th & 6th Ave

2008-08-08T11:22:00.001-05:00

Nice. Just rip that back tire off. He wasn't using it anyway.

Dunno

2008-08-06T16:09:00.001-05:00

AH! These ones kill me! I hate it when I don't record the location, especially for something as satisfying as a set of forks discarded next to--not IN, but beside--the trash. I must research this, find out where I was, and locate this spot again.

1st St btw 1st Ave and Ave A

2008-08-04T20:22:00.001-05:00

Unfortunately this angle doesn't get the full effect of the bent rim. But the village never fails to disappoint: broken bikes abound.

6th St btw 1st Ave and Ave A

2008-08-03T14:18:00.000-05:00

I could have done a better job capturing this bent rim. Ah well, you'll just have to take my word for it.

Ave A btw 6th & 7th St

2008-07-20T00:03:00.000-05:00

1st Ave btw 2nd & 3rd St

2008-07-19T15:01:00.000-05:00

I wish I got a better shot on this one; it's a beauty--at least in that perverse brokenbike sense of beauty that I have.

2nd Ave btw 3rd & 4th St

2008-07-19T13:43:00.001-05:00

Spring btw Mulberry and Lafayette

2008-07-19T13:27:00.000-05:00

I had to double check the blog on this one to be sure I didn't already catch it. I have a good memory for these things and can point out a lot on the street that I already have logged, but I wasn't sure about this until I got home and checked it out. Yup, it's new for me.

Broome btw Broadway and Crosby

2008-07-19T13:22:00.000-05:00

Seeing these wrecks with locks still on them cracks me up. Everything but the frame...

Broadway btw 21st & 22nd

2008-07-19T11:59:00.001-05:00

The first of a long day of walking around town. I picked up 6 broken bikes in all today. Of them all, the empty rim is the best. It's just another lonely part of the cityscape.

Greenwich & Horatio

2008-07-15T17:14:00.000-05:00

Found on a posh west village corner just a few blocks south of the meatpacking district

Lafayette btw Prince & Spring

2008-07-13T12:48:00.001-05:00

LM & I had a whole discussion with a random passerby as to whether or not this one was "broken." She's the only one I know that can engage strangers on the sidewalk so easily. The final conclusion was indeed, broken. We had a good laugh discussing the various levels of brokenness then went on with our day.

Elizabeth btw Hester & Grand

2008-07-05T11:49:00.000-05:00

This one's all out of focus from a torrential downpour that day.

23rd St btw 6th & 7th Ave

2008-06-28T12:59:00.001-05:00

On our way to R.U.B. for some BBQ, saw this on 23rd St.

3rd Ave btw 24th & 25th

2008-06-26T17:11:00.000-05:00

42nd btw Park & Lex

2008-06-21T17:02:00.001-05:00

Always strange to see broken bikes on these crazy busy intersections.

Hudon btw Morton & Barrow

2008-06-13T10:30:00.002-05:00

I found this after walking up Hudson after an interview downtown. I'm never in this neck of the woods and figured I'd wander until I found a Starbucks or a a broken bike. Got this first.

2nd Ave btw 9th & 10th

2008-06-08T11:33:00.000-05:00

This classic bike made it far, but in the end it succumbed to the destruction of all good bikes on the sidewalk

10th St btw 2nd & 3rd

2008-06-08T11:32:00.000-05:00

A nice little sample of tires

Broome btw Mott & Elizabeth

2008-05-31T13:53:00.001-05:00

I can't tell if there is a broken bike in there or if there are three complete bikes, just with tires and seats locked up separate from the chassis. Just in case, it goes up on the blog.

Spring & Mulberry

2008-05-23T15:50:00.000-05:00

Elizabeth btw Prince & Houston

2008-05-23T15:04:00.000-05:00

3rd St. & 2nd Ave

2008-05-23T14:03:00.000-05:00

Zoomed in and taken from a cab.

Fifth Ave btw 20th & 21st St

2008-04-18T10:44:00.001-05:00

One lonely tire as we were on our way from City Bakery to the Flower District.

Prince btw Wooster & Greene

2008-04-17T17:20:00.001-05:00

Oh this is a great one. I love the ones covered in stickers. Do people put the stickers on even after the bike is destroyed, or was this already stickered up before it was left for prime picking?

Mott btw Prince & Spring

2008-04-12T15:10:00.001-05:00

Another beautiful afternoon downtown, another broken bike. This one, being upside down and stripped clean, cracks me up

Crosby btw Spring and Broome

2008-04-04T15:04:00.001-05:00

I was back a week later and this baby was in an equal state of decay.

Broome btw Crosby & Broadway

2008-04-04T14:59:00.001-05:00

Down in SoHo on a Friday afternoon

43rd St & 9th Ave

2008-03-24T14:17:00.000-05:00

This corner in my old neighborhood never disappoints.

3rd Ave btw 38th & 39th St

2008-03-08T16:18:00.002-05:00

I found this beauty apartment shopping in what is now my new neighborhood. (I passed by it after moving in and it was in even worse shape).

Hester btw Mott & Mulberry

2008-03-04T12:09:00.000-05:00

More downtown broken bikes

Spring btw Mott & Mulberry

2008-03-04T11:58:00.001-05:00

Wow! What a great mess down in NoLita today. Loved these.

Grand btw Elizabeth & Bowery

2008-02-11T14:01:00.000-05:00

Strange to see a broken bike in Chinatown, but I guess the bright orange BMX was too tempting to pass up.

Metropark Train Station, NJ

2008-02-08T12:44:00.000-05:00

It's a little tough to see because I took the shot from the train heading down to DC, but I counted 3 broken bikes scattered around that railing.

Washington Square East

2008-01-14T15:17:00.000-05:00

The Village is by far my favorite broken bike hunting spot. First day off work and I trekked downtown for a change of scenery. Unfortunately this was the only broken bike I saw.

dunno

2007-11-30T22:32:00.000-05:00

Sadly this location was lost for all posterity... ah well, to a future of better location blogging I toast!

3rd Ave btw 50th & 51st

2007-11-29T10:41:00.000-05:00

What's amazing about this picture is that I sent it to myself and didn't upload until months later, at which point I had lost the location. But I recognized it as Third Ave and used Google Maps Street View to hone in on the right block. Scrolling around, dragging over, zooming in... just an absolutely amazing tool. I could even see the mirrored ground floor (from the building on the left) in the Street View to further confirm the location.

Third Ave btw 52nd & 53rd

2007-09-13T18:49:00.000-05:00

Stripped and abandoned on Lex. What's great with this one is that not only was it gone the next day, but it reappeared the day after! Who took this bike away and then returned it to the same spot?

Sixth Ave btw 48th & 49th

2007-09-02T10:27:00.000-05:00

Found two today in midtown. Always amazes me when there's just a lonely tire in the middle of New York's busiest avenues.

Lexington btw 52nd & 53rd

2007-08-28T07:54:00.000-05:00

55th btw Park & Madison

2007-08-16T07:49:00.000-05:00

I was rushing off to a early morning meeting across town and came across was was probably carnage from last night.

Mercer btw Prince & Spring

2007-07-27T18:38:00.000-05:00

Down in SoHo getting burgers at Faneli's.

48th btw Lex & 3rd

2007-06-01T14:06:00.000-05:00

53rd btw 2nd & 3rd

2007-05-29T12:31:00.000-05:00

Flat tires, bent rim, missing seat. Not a disaster, but not a bad find either for a midtown midday lunch break.

55th btw Lex & 3rd

2007-05-24T07:59:00.000-05:00

What a great block I live on these days: this is the third broken bike post this year from my block.

Lexington & 50ish

2007-05-12T10:41:00.001-05:00

8th Ave btw 49th & 50th

2007-05-12T10:34:00.001-05:00

45th btw Lex & 3rd

2007-05-12T10:31:00.001-05:00

Busy street in midtown, right in front of half a dozen restaurants. Stripped for parts and left for dead.

Dunno

2007-05-12T10:30:00.001-05:00

Problem with this new phone is that unless I email a picture to myself right away, I will never remember where I took the shot