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The Strange Case of a Brooklyn Warehouse Full of Thousands of NYPD-Seized Bicycles
One family's struggle to obtain evidence in the death of their son raises a number of questions.
Eighteen months after Superstorm Sandy inundated New York City, thousands of bicycles still sit, rusting, in a warehouse in an obscure corner of Brooklyn.
The bikes, impounded by the New York Police Department for various reasons over the months and years preceding Sandy, languish unclaimed in the Kingsland Avenue facility. According to court documents [PDF], the building was "ordered to be closed” by the NYPD’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration Unit due to storm damage. It's unclear, the papers say, "if and/or when the Kingsland Avenue Warehouse will be re-opened.”