Can New York\u2019s ample waterways take pressure off its street grid? A new tech that allows bikes to transport perishable goods could provide an answer.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, the non-profit Sharing Excess tested out transporting food from the Hunts Point Food Distribution Center in the Bronx to a food pantry in Manhattan via ferry and cargo bikes with battery-powered refrigeration. The goods traveled via ferry to E. 34th Street, where workers off-loaded them onto to Fulpra Quatro pedal-assisted quad e-bikes.<\/p>\n
Of course, a demonstration is just a demonstration, and the new tech would need to be significantly scaled up to make a dent in the thousands of trucks that deliver perishable goods to restaurants and other food providers across the city.<\/p>\n
Streetsblog Editor-in-Chief Gersh Kuntzman recently test-rode on of the refrigerated bikes. Give it a watch:<\/p>\n
On Wednesday morning, the city’s first refrigerated cargo quad will spirit hundreds of pounds of produce from E. 34th St. to a soup kitchen near NYU. I rode it for another edition of Old Man Vertical! @EMPIRECLEAN<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/MJd6GQ3DHI<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Gersh Kuntzman (@GershKuntzman) October 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n In other news:<\/p>\n MTA officials say their new fare gates are reducing fare evasion, and plan to expand the design to more stations. (NY Times<\/a>, Gothamist<\/a>, amNY<\/a>)<\/p>\n The New Yorker<\/a> gave the Central Park horse carriage debate the long-read treatment.<\/p>\n Cops arrested the driver who killed Geoffrey Radbill on Riverside Drive last December, or as the Daily News<\/a> called him, the \u201cman behind the wheel of a car that struck and killed a prominent Manhattan philanthropist.\u201d<\/p>\n Police identified the cyclist killed in a collision with an unleashed dog as 71-year-old Douglas Adams, whom The Post<\/a> described as an \u201cUpper West Side biking enthusiast.\u201d<\/p>\n The Post<\/a> also followed our coverage<\/a> of the NYPD officer who struck a cyclist on Atlantic Avenue on Monday. <\/p>\n Mamdani hasn\u2019t been the police reform mayor some advocates hoped he\u2019d be. (Politico<\/a>)<\/p>\n Cops arrested a Long Island man who allegedly struck and killed a homeless man then fled the scene. (NY Post<\/a>)<\/p>\n Advocates want to extend New Jersey\u2019s Hudson-Bergen Light Rail. (PIX11<\/a>)<\/p>\n