Follow our advice or you stand a 68% chance for wet fanny tomorrow

Some are only slighty cracked. Others look
 the victim of wild dog packs

It’s gonna rain. Take along a plastic bag.

How do we know about your 68% chance? We physically inspected the 24 stations in the Financial District and Battery Park last week. Along that journey, we counted 545 docked bikes. Of those, 373 had cracked seats.

The good news: Citi Bike seems to have an aggressive replacement program under way. All the good seats are not pale gray survivors of the winter.  They all look brand spanking new.

Below is a list of the stations we visited

DOCKS	NEIGHBORHOOD	STATION	CRACKED SEATS	BIKES DOCKED
47	Financial District	Barclay St & Church St	11	13
36	Financial District	Broadway & Battery Pl	18	33
43	Financial District	John St & William St	22	38
35	Financial District	Liberty St & Broadway	14	24
41	Financial District	Murray St & West St	23	33
37	Financial District	Old Slip & Front St	14	18
35	Financial District	Park Pl & Church St	10	16
42	Financial District	Pearl St & Hanover Square	12	18
39	Financial District	Front St & Maiden Ln	22	39
35	Financial District	Broad St & Bridge St	18	29
27	Financial District	Maiden Ln & Pearl St	18	22
47!!!	Financial District	Bus Slip & State St	35	45
36	Financial District	Cliff St & Fulton St	13	24
43	Financial District	Fulton St & William St	20	26
35	Financial District	Peck Slip & Front Street	17	26
29	Financial District	South St & Gouverneur Ln	15	19
39	Financial District	South St & Whitehall St	21	27
31	Financial District	Spruce St & Nasau St	5	10
31	Financial District	Water - Whitehall Plaza	11	18
24	Battery Park City	Little West St & 1 Pl	11	20
25	Battery Park City	South End Ave & Liberty St	3	7
39	Battery Park City	Vesey Pl & River Terrace	23	33
49	Battery Park City	West Thames St	6	7
39	Financial District	William St & Pine St	11	18