Sunday, January 26, 2014

Week Three NotSpot report



TOP 10 NOTSPOTS WEEK THREE
NEIGHBORHOOD
NO. of STATIONS
DOCKS
NOTSPOT HOURS
HOURS PER STATION
HOURS PER DOCK
WEEK THREE
1
Clinton Hill
9
249
157
17.44
0.63
1/19/2014
2
Williamsburg
9
265
135.5
15.06
0.51
1/19/2014
3
Bedford-Stuyvesant
9
205
91.5
10.17
0.45
1/19/2014
4
Fort Greene
20
584
233
11.65
0.40
1/19/2014
5
Tompkins Square
13
403
134.75
10.37
0.33
1/19/2014
6
Chelsea
19
693
223.5
11.76
0.32
1/19/2014
7
Lower East Side
18
518
155.75
8.65
0.30
1/19/2014
8
Navy Yard
4
73
17.5
4.38
0.24
1/19/2014
9
Battery Park City
4
137
30
7.50
0.22
1/19/2014
10
Flatiron
5
194
35.5
7.10
0.18
1/19/2014


Brooklyn’s service really got hammered by the Jan 21-22 snowstorm. The Washington Ave & Greene Ave station in Clinton Hill, which is No. 1 on this week’s list, was empty for 93 hours. Clinton Hill had not previously made the list.
In Manhattan, Tompkins Square turned in the worst performance. It too is making its debut on the list.


Of note

  • We haven’t come across any story that sheds light on exactly how the Bixi bankruptcy might impact New York’s bike-sharing program.  Here’s the story from Forbes magazine.


  • We’re suffering the most out-of-service stations since the New Year’s closures around Times Square -- seven out of commission at this writing. In the Garment District, four Broadway stations --  at W 36, W 37, W 39 and W 41 Sts -- were pulled from service starting Thursday and continuing. Near Union Square, Greenwich Village’s  W 13 St & 5 Ave station remains closed because of the water main break.  The Village also lost Sullivan St & Washington Sq for a time on Thursday. Two Bridges lost the Catherine St & Monroe St station for several days.The Fulton St &  Rockwell Pl station in Fort Greene was shut down starting Monday.


Bicycles available

This week we recorded a new low.
Most recorded: 5658 on Sunday 1/19 at 10 am (Record is 5674)
Fewest recorded: 3874 at 5:30 pm Friday.  That’s the record low.


Worstest stations

Both boroughs have a new worst of the worst.


MANHATTAN NEIGHBORHOOD
STATION
NOTSPOT HOURS
Civic Center
Centre St & Chambers St
69.75
Midtown East
E 55 St & Lexington Ave
68.25
Hells Kitchen
W 52 St & 9 Ave
62.25
Chelsea
10 Ave & W 28 St
62
Chelsea
9 Ave & W 22 St
58
BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOOD
STATION
NOTSPOT HOURS
Williamsburg
S 3 St & Bedford Ave
175
Downtown Brooklyn
Clinton St & Tillary St
174
Clinton Hill
Washington Ave & Greene Ave
102.5
Downtown Brooklyn
Cadman Plaza E & Tillary St
94.5
Brooklyn Heights
Columbia Heights & Cranberry St
88.5

How to read the charts

What’s a NotSpot? A NotSpot is a bike-sharing station that is empty or filled at the time we conduct a survey.


What’s a survey? A survey is when we peruse the data provided by the official map and the data provided by a map produced by the Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis. We conduct two surveys daily, Monday through Friday. We do not survey on weekends.

About the rankings:  We rank the Top Ten NotSpots by neighborhood. We take the total NotSpot hours produced by all stations in the ‘hood and divide that by the total number of docks there. The "hours per dock" is as close as we can get to a common denominator.





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