Three new curbside spots have been carved out on the Higher West Facet to make package deal supply by cargo bike simpler, metropolis transportation officers introduced Tuesday.
“With more and more New Yorkers ordering online, our streets are seeing more trucks than ever before,” metropolis Division of Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez instructed reporters at eighty fifth St. and Amsterdam Ave. “Nearly 90% of goods in our city are delivered by truck.”
The three so-called “micro-hubs” that opened Tuesday are an effort to scale back how usually these vehicles must squeeze down slender residential streets within the borough of Manhattan.
Primarily, a painted swath of asphalt behind plastic site visitors bollards, the hubs are devoted spots the place items that entered the neighborhood behind a truck may be offloaded and redistributed to cargo bikes, e-bikes or pushcarts for the ultimate leg of their journey.
Amazon’s new “micro-hub” on Broadway, one in all three new loading zones on the Higher West Facet meant to distribute packages to cargo bikes. (Evan Simko-Bednarski / New York Every day Information)
“More than 84% of New Yorkers place an order four times a week to get a delivery to their apartment,” Rodriguez mentioned. “We want to work toward a goal where deliveries are made efficiently and safe[ly].”
First introduced two years in the past, the pilot program goals to maintain giant supply vehicles from blocking slender aspect streets or obstructing crosswalks whereas making their rounds.
An indication above the Internet Zero Logistics micro-hub at eighty fifth St. and Amsterdam Ave. (Evan Simko-Bednarski / New York Every day Information)
A hub at Amsterdam Ave. and W. 73rd St. shall be utilized by UPS, one at Broadway and W. 77th St. shall be utilized by Amazon, and the hub at Amsterdam Ave. and W. eighty fifth St. shall be utilized by New York-based agency Internet Zero Logistics.
Rodriguez mentioned New Yorkers can anticipate 33 extra hubs citywide inside the subsequent three years.
Initially Revealed: April 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM EDT
