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POD PEOPLE: The creators of a high-tech, bike-storage unit called an Oonee Pod will install one of the structures
outside Atlantic Terminal Mall this spring. Shabazz Stuart
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Nice pod, bro.
A bicycle vault coming to
the streets outside Atlantic
Terminal Mall this spring
will provide a new, hip way for
cycling commuters to stash
their pedal-powered rides, according
to the Brooklyn-bred
startup dude who dreamt up
the high-tech storage system,
which he said is too awesome
to call a garage.
“This is not some cage that
you stick into the corner of
a parking lot,” said Shabazz
Stuart, who grew up in Crown
Heights. “This is something
that looks iconic and has an
architectural signifi cance. We
call it a pod.”
Stuart, the founder of Brooklyn
Navy Yard–based tech-storage
company Oonee, will install
his so-called Oonee Pod
— a modular shed-like structure
he said can be confi gured
to securely shelter between 20
to 50 bikes at a time — near the
massive shopping center and
transit hub at Atlantic Avenue
and Fort Greene Place.
Borough cyclists who register
their bikes on Oonee’s
website can fork over $1 for a
day in the gara… pod, which
they can book using an app
called Brivo Onair. And true
pod people can drop $4.99 for a
monthly subscription that offers
unlimited access.
The company can offer
those low rates to customers
because it leases the exterior
walls of the cag… pod to advertisers,
according to Stuart,
whose fi rm is currently working
to seal the deal on a partnership
that would cover the
structure in ads he said locals
will appreciate.
“It’s an experiential,
guerilla-style marketing
piece,” Stuart said.
And the storag… pod is
insured to cover the value of
any stolen bikes, according to
the entrepreneur, who noted
no two-wheelers have disappeared
from the city’s pilot
Oonee Pod since the company
installed it near its Navy Yard
headquarters last year.
In fact, preventing bicycle
thefts is what got Stewart
into the business, after crooks
made off with no less than
three of his two-wheelers over
a fi ve-year period, he said.
“I’ve had three bikes stolen,”
Stuart said.
Don’t call
it a garage
High-tech bike storage coming to
streets outside Atlantic Terminal
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