Not your ordinary bike racks unveiled at BOCES, headed Yorktown-wide next
Charged with designing not your ordinary bike rack, Alexa Picone wanted it to reflect the Yorktown she knows best.
The result: an eye-popping green-blue metallic form that resembles a chain-link serpent. Put it on a corporate campus, and it would look more like the modern art that it is than the functional piece it doubles as. Picone calls it “Chain Reaction”.
“I wish I could put it in my room,” the Yorktown High School senior said. “I’m from Yorktown, and basically I know everything that happens in Yorktown is a chain reaction.”
Ossining High School senior Dana Robins, left, and Picone show off “Chain Reaction,” the bike rack Picone designed and one of 13 similarly flashy racks that will show up around Yorktown later this year.
In this context, she was referring to the local grapevine, but the chain reaction local officials are hoping for is more of the bicycle chain variety.
Picone’s piece was among the first of more than a dozen hand-crafted bicycle racks unveiled this morning at the Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES campus.
“The original idea was to make Yorktown more bike-friendly,” town energy consultant Jerry Robock said. “The people at BOCES really took on ownership of this.”
The town turned to the Tech Center at BOCES, where students in Masonry, Autobody, Welding and, like Picone, Advertising Art and Digital Design spent the school year crafting them. They’ll be placed around town at locations determined later this year.
The project cost $9,000 and was funded through a $158,000 federal stimulus grant obtained by the town.
One of the racks looks like a traditional bike rack merged with a trash barrel. Another is essentially a large planter. One is made to resemble an open book and will likely be placed near the library.
Aspiring animator and budding environmentalist Dana Robins said she hopes the racks inspire more people to ride.
“It seems like the hippie generation is coming back with all the green,” the Ossining senior said.
Read the full story tomorrow in The Journal News.
Photos: Brian Howard/The Journal News
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