If you're in Manhattan you're bound to see an old bicycle abandon to a light post or bike post. It must run thought the the minds of the pedestrians. Why would a person just leave a bike chained to the side walk like a unwanted child in some 4th world country.(4th world country were all poor now a days) There are even some site dedicated to a memorial of abandon bikes. Dan Hoffmann is an artist who sells photographs of abandoned art. I wonder is there any one or group of people who remove these "art pieces" or "eye sore"? The MTA New York City Transit,NYC Department of Parks and Recreation,NYC Department of Sanitation,NYC Department of Transportation, NYC Fire Department, and NYC Police Department all remove what they think are abandoned bicycles. That is where the problem is; its easy to see a bike without wheels or a handle bar and know its abandoned but, how do these departments determine if its just someones old bike?Although I still see a bunch of old bike frames everywhere it crazy to think that the city took my old looking bike and not some thief. There should be a way for owners to claim ownership of confiscated bikes. At www.IBikeNYC.com they created a map of places where users have reported abandoned bicycles.
View Abandoned Bikes and Damaged Racks in a larger map
I think that I would be a great idea for a non-profit like www.recycleabicycle.org would take these bikes and use them for parts. If you ever left abandoned a bicycle don't think that it is time you took it home?
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