East Village demands city take action on 150 e-bike pile that it failed to clean up

The city is not delivering.Fed-up East Villagers demanded Thursday that the Big Apple finally terminate a crowded e-bike parking lot at East 11th Street and First Avenue after numerous failed attempts by the city to clear up the clogged corner.Earlier in the day, the NYPD and Sanitation officers made a halfhearted attempt to clear the nearly 150 abandoned and illegally parked bikes that have blighted the area — but only wound up moving about 11 of them, leaving residents frustrated with the glacial pace of change.“Every day I hear from tenants about blocked sidewalks, food waste, rats, and concerns about safety.These are not minor inconveniences.

They affect whether people can comfortably enter their homes, reach a business, or simply walk down the street,” raged Christine Renzi, a local business owner and founder of the East Village Beautification Project.“Small businesses keep closing, residents’ quality of life keeps dropping, and property values keep plummeting.”Renzi founded the coalition last month after the city repeatedly failed at cleaning up the e-bike eyesore since it erupted in 2024.The NYPD cleared out dozens of abandoned and illegally parked bikes during the summer of 2025, but the pile grew back to its monstrous size within weeks, The Post reported last year.Renzi witnessed as many as 400 bikes “blocking sidewalks and causing mayhem” at any given time, she said — with deliveristas treating the corner as a waiting room between Uber Eats and Seamless orders.The hordes of lingering men have made Isabela Padule fearful of walking around her own neighborhood with her baby, saying she no longer feels safe.“This block used to be much safer.Now with all these people here day and night, I feel scared and when I come home at night, I [don’t] feel comfortable walking past hundreds of men outside my doorstep,” Padule, 30, an office manager, said.“I want to walk out of my home with my baby and feel safe and comfortable [within] my own n...