The bike room in the co-op where I live mostly has fairly crappy bikes, and too modern for my taste. Since I'm an architect who occasionally deals with (among other things) leakage issues, I see a fair number of basements, and early this year I was in a storage room that had a a really nice lugged bike with full Campagnolo group thrown way up on top of a bunch of other stuff, decades worth of dust on it, in a security cage. I asked the super who owned it, and gave him my card, to pass on to the owner -- but never heard back. There are probably a lot of those in Manhattan -- too bad there's no "use it or lose it" provision in US property law.