Sunday, January 19, 2014

The NotSpot Summary: Week 2, Jan 12-18

Downtown Brooklyn retains its No.1 NotSpot Spot for the second week in a row. The numbers are way down though -- 61 hours there vs. 188 in Week 1. But you’d expect the numbers to come down because in Week One we were in snowstorm recovery mode.


A Manhattan station makes its first appearance with Midtown North at No. 3. But really, the story remains Brooklyn. Four of the five neighborhoods with the least reliable service -- whatever the reason -- are there.


Brooklyn’s Clinton St & Tillary St station takes the prize for the least reliable station so far this year.


TOP 10 NOTSPOTS WEEK 2

NEIGHBORHOOD
NO. of STATIONS
DOCKS
NOTSPOT HOURS
NOTSPOT HOURS PER STATION
NOTSPOT HOURS PER DOCK
1
Downtown Brooklyn
9
290
61
6.78
0.21
2
Clinton Hill
9
249
48.75
5.42
0.20
3
Midtown North
15
661
117.25
7.82
0.18
4
Dumbo/Vinegar Hill/Navy Yard
10
215
35
3.50
0.16
5
Fort Greene
20
584
72.25
3.61
0.12
6
Flatiron
3
128
13.5
4.50
0.11
7
Civic Center
4
148
17
4.25
0.11
8
Hells Kitchen
14
464
46.5
3.32
0.10
9
Turtle Bay
6
247
21
3.50
0.09
10
Murray Hill
4
143
11.75
2.94
0.08


And the least reliable station is...


We've’ added a new benchmark to follow -- the 5 least reliable stations in both boroughs, based on cumulative NotSpot Hours since Jan. 5. So far, this reinforces our argument that Brooklyn suffers service issues far more than does Manhattan.  Brooklyn’s best of the worst equals Manhattan’s worst of the worst. Got that?

MANHATTAN NEIGHBORHOODSTATIONNOTSPOT HOURS
Midtown EastE 55 St & Lexington Ave68.25
Civic CenterCentre St & Chambers St60.25
Midtown NorthE 53 St & Madison Ave47.25
Financial DistrictSpruce St & Nasau St43.75
Midtown NorthW 37 St & 5 Ave38.7
BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOODSTATIONNOTSPOT HOURS
Downtown BrooklynClinton St & Tillary St133.5
WilliamsburgS 3 St & Bedford Ave107
Downtown BrooklynCadman Plaza E & Tillary St94.5
Brooklyn HeightsColumbia Heights & Cranberry St88.5
Fort GreeneMyrtle Ave & St Edwards St68.25

Of note

  • A new station opened in Chelsea at West 20 St & 11 Ave
  • In Brooklyn, the Carlton Ave & Park Ave station emerged from the ashes after going gray in early December
  • We recorded our most bikes available, 5674
  • A water main break took out a Union Square station starting Thursday.

Bicycles available

Most recorded: 5674 at 9:30 am Saturday 1/18. (That’s the current record.)

Fewest recorded: 4837 at  5:30 pm Wednesday 1/15 (Record 4226 at 5:45 a.m. Sunday 1/5


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. Then we check to find the time the station was once again able to service people.
  • 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 a researcher at 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.


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