Bicycle Parking

NYPD’s Bedford Avenue Circular Saw Massacre Caught on Tape

The NYPD's 94th Precinct in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is working hard to build on its reputation for being New York City's most infamous bike thieves. Too much demand for bike parking in the neighborhood? "I know what to do," says the 94's commanding officer Dennis M. Fulton. "Bust out the circular saw!"

By Aaron Naparstek

12:05 PM EDT on October 5, 2009

The NYPD’s 94th Precinct in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is working hard to build on its reputation for being New York City’s most infamous bike thieves. Too much demand for bike parking in the neighborhood? “I know what to do,” says the 94’s commanding officer Dennis M. Fulton. “Bust out the circular saw!”

This time Greenpoint resident Ben Running caught the whole thing on video tape. Running says the confiscated bicycles seemed to be in use:

They didn’t look like beat up bikes that had locked up there forever —
they looked like they were being used,” said Ben Running, a Greenpoint
resident and cyclist who filmed police removing the bikes from a street
sign near the corner of North Eighth Street. “Bikes shouldn’t be
removed without some kind of notice.

Aaron Naparstek

Aaron Naparstek is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Streetsblog. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Naparstek's journalism, advocacy and community organizing work has been instrumental in growing the bicycle network, removing motor vehicles from parks, and developing new public plazas, car-free streets and life-saving traffic-calming measures across all five boroughs. He was also one of the original cast members of the "War on Cars" podcast. You can find more of his work on his website.

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