38th btw 8th & 9th Ave

Avenue A btw 11th & 12th St

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

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

Dunno

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

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

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

1st Ave btw 2nd & 3rd St

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

Spring btw Mulberry and Lafayette

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

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

Broadway btw 21st & 22nd

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

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

Lafayette btw Prince & Spring

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

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

23rd St btw 6th & 7th Ave

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

3rd Ave btw 24th & 25th

42nd btw Park & Lex

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

Hudon btw Morton & Barrow

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

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

A nice little sample of tires

Broome btw Mott & Elizabeth

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

Elizabeth btw Prince & Houston

3rd St. & 2nd Ave

Zoomed in and taken from a cab.

Fifth Ave btw 20th & 21st St

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

Prince btw Wooster & Greene

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

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

Crosby btw Spring and Broome

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

Broome btw Crosby & Broadway

Down in SoHo on a Friday afternoon

43rd St & 9th Ave

This corner in my old neighborhood never disappoints.

3rd Ave btw 38th & 39th St

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

More downtown broken bikes

Spring btw Mott & Mulberry

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

Grand btw Elizabeth & Bowery

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

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

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

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

3rd Ave btw 50th & 51st

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

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

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

55th btw Park & Madison

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

Down in SoHo getting burgers at Faneli's.

48th btw Lex & 3rd

53rd btw 2nd & 3rd

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

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

Lexington & 50ish

8th Ave btw 49th & 50th

45th btw Lex & 3rd

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

Dunno

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

Dunno

Dunno

49th btw 7th & 8th

I can always count on the west side for broken bikes. Got two today.

Lexington Ave btw 53rd & 54th

Right there, smack in the heart of my morning commute was a torn up bike on Lex. What's beautiful was that I got to watch it deteriorate over the next week before being removed before the end of the week (quite possibly by the building management company staff because it was right outside the Citigroup office in midtown).

50th St btw 5th & Madison

Yeah, that's not going anywhere

Dublin, Ireland

God this one is a beauty. A complete mangled, gnarled mess. I love it.

Dublin, Ireland

It was a very productive day, if you were an international broken bike hunter

Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Where broken bikes go to die. It is the final resting place of the broken bikes in Ireland. The elephant graveyard but for bikes.


I was cry because of all the broken beauties back there that I couldnt reach through the iron gates

Dublin, Ireland

Dublin, Ireland

Essex & Rivington

(I think) Again, with the loss of data. I am sure I took this near Sugar Sweet Sunshine in LES, so we'll go with that location.
But cmon, how great is this one? Standing on its head, stripped to the core. I love it.

(dunno)

I know I shot this from a cab and wrote down the location. But that is now lost because in my infinite ability to procrastinate I deleted the file from my palm (and the note attached to it) before I could post to the web. The pics transfer each sync but the notes I write in them only stay on the palm.

(dunno)

nuts. I have no idea where I too this.

The New Territories, Hong Kong

I never ever thought I would see a broken bike in China. I was so excited to see this, I mean, it's even chained to the railing, and is a decent looking frame at that.

Mott St btw Prince & Houston

Someone spent the time/money on a nice purple-to-white fade only for their beauty to meet this shameful end.


More on the same block. I'm always amazed when the delivery bikes get ripped off. Thoes things are in a constant state of use. How did that happen?

55th St btw Lex & 3rd Aves

Practically right outside my door! Stripped clean and left for pick up.

Grand St btw Mercer & Greene

A lone little one down in SoHo.
(LM was flagging down a cab in the post World Cup Frenzy and i'm busy trying to get this shot off)

6th Ave and 47th St

I don't think this is meant to be pick up with the trash, seeing as how it's chained to the subway entrance. But it's quite a fitting location.

51st St btw Park & Madison

On the way to see a client. Strange to see in this neighborhood. Broken bikes know no bounds.

10th St & 1st Ave

Thanks to Mike Brittain for this one. Bike-part thieves no know bounds. First this is classic because someone hangs their bike from a street sign. Then someone comes along and still pilfers parts.

33rd btw 5th & 6th

A dirty bike, tossed to the curb on a filthy, rainy New York City night.

Spring & Wooster

This is a beauty. I'm going to save this as one of my favs. Dunno why, just like it a lot. Hope you enjoy.

Rivington St btw Suffolk & Clinton

Eventually I am going to upgrade my palm, which means that I won't have this grainy old lens anymore. This is a perfect example of what I am going to miss... here's a blah green bike as the focus of this shot and look how the color adjustment bleeds green through the rest of the shot. Now instead of a just a green bike on grey pavement we've got a puke green bike on a gag green pavement.

The only thing that's more mildly disturbing than my mild obsession with broken bikes is my mild raphsodizing about the camera with which I use to capture the aforementioned mild obsession. And the only thing slightly mildly more disturbing than that... I guess that I really like the green tone of this shot.