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In accordance with Section 1-13 of the Concession Rules of the City of New York, the New York City
Department of Parks and Recreation (“Parks”) is issuing, as of the date of this notice a non-significant
Request for Proposals (“RFP”) for the operation of a Specialty Food Market at Red Hook Park, Brooklyn.
There will be a recommended on-site proposer meeting and site tour on Friday, August 2, 2019 at 11:00 AM.
We will be meeting at the proposed concession site (Block #619 & Lot #1), which is located at Red Hook
Park at Bay, Clinton, Court and Halleck Streets, adjacent to the soccer field. If you are considering responding
to this RFP, please make every effort to attend this recommended meeting and site tour. All proposals
submitted in response to this RFP must be submitted no later than Friday, August 30, 2019 at 3:00 pm.
Hard copies of the RFP can be obtained, at no cost, commencing on Wednesday, July 17, 2019 through
Friday, August 30, 2019, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., excluding weekends and
holidays, at the Revenue Division of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, which is
located at 830 Fifth Avenue, Room 407, New York, NY 10065.
The RFP is also available for download, on Wednesday, July 17, 2019 through Friday, August 30, 2019,
on Parks’ website. To download the RFP, visit http://www.nyc.gov/parks/businessopportunities and click
on the “Concessions Opportunities at Parks” link. Once you have logged in, click on the “download” link
that appears adjacent to the RFP’s description.
For more information or to request to receive a copy of the RFP by mail, prospective proposers may
contact Andrew Coppola, Project Manager, at (212) 360-3454 or at Andrew.Coppola@parks.nyc.gov.
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CITI BIKE
TO EXPAND
SEEING BLUE: Citi Bike will come to almost a dozen more neighborhoods across Kings
County by 2023, city offi cials announced on July 16. Photo by Kevin Duggan
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
They’re pedaling away from controversy!
New York City’s largest purveyor
of pedal-powered transportation announced
a fi ve-year expansion into
eight virgin Brooklyn neighborhoods
on Tuesday — one week after a social
justice group called out the service for
failing to serve low-income communities.
Transportation company Lyft —
which acquired Citi Bike in 2018 — will
invest $100 million to triple the total
number of blue bikes in the city, many
of which will be docked in transitstarved
and low-income communities,
according to Borough President Eric
Adams.
“The expansion of Citi Bike into
more low-income communities, and
communities of color, is a long overdue
step in delivering transit equity for all
New Yorkers,” said Adams.
The announcement follows hot on
the heels of a new study that shows
Citi Bikes are currently concentrated
in predominantly wealthy and white
neighborhoods .
The head of New York Communities
for Change — the organization behind
the study — chastised the company
for taking so long to bring their bikes
to more neighborhoods in the city and
said the company will need to take additional
steps to ensure parity.
“We welcome bike sharing to previously
unserved neighborhoods in
Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, but
Citi Bike has had seven years to serve
all New Yorkers and this is too little
too late,” Jonathan Westin said in an
emailed statement. “Citi Bike has prioritized
the wealthiest and whitest
parts of our city for too long, and while
expanded access will be a big step forward,
it’s the fi rst of many needed to expand
bike sharing to all New Yorkers.”
The new plan calls for additional
Citi Bike docks near the L Train —
the company has been stuffi ng rental
bikes along the line in anticipation
of the now now-averted L-pocalypse
since April — but the lion’s share of
new docks will be spread throughout
neighborhoods that have little to
no access to the Citi Bike, including
Brownsville, Crown Heights, Prospect
Lefferts Gardens, East Flatbush,
Windsor Terrace, Ditmas Park, Kensington
and Sunset Park.
Park Slope and Bedford-Stuyvesant,
where Citi Bike currently has a substantial
presence, will also see some
new docks installed in underserved areas.
The new rollout will be accompanied
by new handcycles — hand-powered
bikes ideal for some disabled riders
— which the company will test out
this summer at community events
throughout the Five Boroughs.
Citi Bike currently offers a reduced
membership of $5 per month — instead
of $15 — to public housing residents or
recipients of the federal food assistance
program, called Snap.
But that’s not enough, according to
Westin, who said that the upfront cost
of $3 per trip and the $169 annual membership
are still prohibitively high for
many would-be cyclists in the city.
“Expensive per ride charges and
membership fees continue to keep bike
sharing out of reach for too many New
Yorkers,” he said.
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