Life in and around Hell’s Kitchen, NYC
We’ve really dropped the ball on this one! We mentioned the new bike store on 10th Ave earlier this week, then followed up with the name of the store. Now, turns out this is actually the bike store on 9th Ave’s new location!
The building is the fairly unique yellow one on the corner of 47th & 9th, which has had the faded bike paintings along the wall forever, so it’ll be interesting to see what happens to them.
Yesterday we noticed the incoming bike store on 10th Ave, but weren’t sure of the name. Turns out they’ve put it on the door:
Danny’s Cycles have a couple of stores throughout NY state, including two in the city, and this outpost marks their expansion into the west side of Manhattan.
Looks like Citibike hasn’t killed independent bike shops just yet: a new bike shop is opening up on 10th Ave at 46th St in the ground floor of the new-ish apartment building there.
Based on the signage, it looks like it might be a branch of Trek Bicycle Stores, a bike store group that are currently contained to the midwest. The posters up for the “Go By Bike Month” look like the same campaign that group’s run in the past, and their logo is on it, so it’s probably a safe bet that this could be their New York outpost.
Either that, or they’re just really excited to be stocking that brand of bike.