This artist hacked a CitiBike to make NYC's affordability crisis harder to ignore
Source: Business Insider ·
Justin Blinder created a device that makes it harder to pedal a CitiBike in rent-burdened areas.
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Justin Blinder riding a CitiBike. Blinder created a device that makes it more difficult to pedal in rent-burdened areas of New York City.Justin BlinderJustin Blinder created a device that makes it harder to pedal in rent-burdened areas of NYC.The device, called "Ground Truth," has a custom map and attaches to any CitiBike in the city.Blinder's invention comes as NYC reckons with an affordability crisis.Justin Blinder was lugging Taco Bell burritos from neighborhood to neighborhood on his bike for his Uber Eats gig in 2020, watching as skyscrapers and modular apartment buildings gave way to brown-bricked housing projects and cracked streets.It made the Brooklyn-based artist and software developer think viscerally about affordability, and how abstracted the concept had become in modern discourse."We're sort of confronted with that via top-down maps, and it really doesn't touch upon the lived experience," Blinder told Business Insider. "That was sort of like the seed of the…