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Kristin Jenny

New York City landlords ban e-bikes inside buildings — is this the new norm?

A storage unit containing at least one hundred E-Bikes at a Stop & Stor Self Storage Facility caught fire and sparked a three alarm blaze at 534 63rd Street in Brooklyn on Sunday October 22, 2023. 1258. (Photo by Theodore Parisienne for NY Daily News via Getty Images).

E-bikes have been taking the bike industry by storm in the last few years and is in itself an industry valued at nearly two billion dollars. However, these lithium-ion battery-powered bikes aren’t all rainbows and unicorns. 

Some e-bikes have caused bodily harm due to alleged malfunctioning parts, while others’ batteries have combusted, resulting in property-destroying fires, injury and death. 

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