Uptown Residents Can Get Half Off A 1-Year Citi Bike Membership

NORTHERN MANHATTAN, NY — To celebrate its recent expansion, Citi Bike is giving Washington Heights and Inwood residents the chance to purchase a one-year membership for 50 percent off.

The deal is eligible to anyone purchasing a Citi Bike membership for the first time and who lives in the Northern Manhattan 10033, 10034, or 10040 ZIP codes. The three uptown ZIP codes are the only areas in Manhattan where residents can get 50 percent off an annual membership. There are also enclaves in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens getting offered the deal.

Additionally, if you're an NYCHA resident or SNAP recipient, you're eligible for a City Bike Reduced Fare Bike Share membership.

How to sign up:

• Click the “Sign Up” button from within the Citi Bike app on your mobile phone or computer
• Enter promo code EXPANSION21 on the checkout screen
• The 50% discount will be applied to eligible individuals

Membership perks

"From unlimited 45-minute Classic bike rides, ebike discounts, and 3 free guest passes, we’re talking about serious deals on two wheels," reads the Citi Bike website.

The deal is available until Aug. 16.

In April, Citi Bike launched 36 new stations in Washington Heights and Inwood, completing its goal to expand to Northern Manhattan and to cover the borough from Battery to 220th Street.

Citi Bike's effort to expand into Upper Manhattan came after a 2019 study showed that the service existed primarily in largely white, affluent neighborhoods while shutting out poor people of color.

The City Bike expansion into Upper Manhattan took off in 2020 as the service unveiled its first station north of 130th Street in April 2020, before its first station above 180th Street in August, and now its wide-scale expansion into Washinton Heights and Inwood in the first few months of 2021.

You can check out all of the Washington Heights and Inwood Citi Bike stations on the service's bike-finding map — here.

While the response to additional Citi Bike stations opening in Washington Heights and Inwood has generally been positive throughout different uptown community social media pages. The most common complaint is the elimination of parking spaces caused by the new stations.

On a positive note, many of these stations were opened on sidewalks and not streets.