Citi Bikes Expanding In PLG And Flatbush, DOT Says

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — Citi Bike will extend next year into central Brooklyn after five years in New York City and two in New Jersey, the Transportation department announced Thursday.

Community Boards 14 and 17 — which cover a sliver of Prospect Lefferts Gardens as well as Prospect Park South, Flatbush and Ditmas Park — will see new blue docking stations in 2023, according to a social media announcement.

The Transportation department had already received 52 suggestions for locations for Citi Bike docking stations as of Thursday afternoon.

Initial requests clustered in Ditmas Park and Prospect Park South, predictably near the Cortelyou Road subway station and the Flatbush Food Coop, which one commenter dubbed, "a neighborhood anchor."

Requests also included two suggestions where not to put a docking station.

"The Jamaican smoked jerk chicken smoker/truck sets up here on the weekends," one Brooklynite noted of the intersection of Church Avenue and East 18th Street. "People might be upset if they need to find a new location."

On Twitter, a user named Helen Gigante had another suggestion: "Nowhere."

There are currently 25,000 bikes and more than 1,500 stations docks across the system, which reaches north to Norwood in The Bronx, west to Jersey City and Hoboken, east to the Bed-Stuy-Brownsville border and south to Bay Ridge.

Membership costs $15.42 a month or $185 a year.

How many bikes will be installed or when in 2023 remains unclear.