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CM Richards: Far Rockaway Needs Good Transit+Biking, Not More Parking

By David Meyer | Sep 21, 2016 | 14 Comments

How can downtown Far Rockaway’s transportation system handle the growth in housing and commercial development that City Hall is planning for the beachside community? To hear some local bigwigs tell it, the answer is parking, parking, and more parking. But Council Member Donovan Richards has different ideas. The de Blasio administration has committed $91 million to street infrastructure, […]

Randall’s Island Connector to Open This Weekend

By Brad Aaron | Nov 11, 2015 | 18 Comments

The Randall’s Island Connector is set to open this weekend. A greenway link between the island and the South Bronx, the connector has been on the agenda of advocates and electeds since the early 1990s. The project will provide a grade-level crossing over Bronx Kill from E. 132nd Street in Port Morris, under an Amtrak bridge, […]

Eyes on the Street: Randall’s Island Connector to Open in “Coming Weeks”

By Stephen Miller | Sep 30, 2015 | 32 Comments

The Randall’s Island Connector, a greenway link between the South Bronx and Randall’s Island, is almost complete. Bronxites are anticipating a ribbon-cutting any day now from the city’s Economic Development Corporation, which is building the project. The new path crosses the Bronx Kill, a narrow waterway separating Randall’s Island from the Bronx. Without it, the only way to bike or walk […]

State’s Top Court: Low-Cost Parking Is Not a Tax-Free Charity

By Stephen Miller | Jul 30, 2015 | 3 Comments

The owner of five Queens cut-rate parking facilities will have to pay property taxes, the state’s top court has ruled. The New York State Court of Appeals upheld the city’s decision to take back a tax exemption it had previously granted the politically-connected non-profit that operates 2,000 parking spaces in downtown Jamaica. Over the course of a decade starting in 1996, Jamaica […]

South Bronx Greenway Takes Shape on Food Center Drive

By Stephen Miller | Jun 15, 2015 | 7 Comments

A decade in the making, the South Bronx Greenway segment along Food Center Drive in Hunts Point is almost complete. The loop, which will provide a protected path along a busy truck route past some of the region’s largest food and beverage distributors, is set to open this fall. First proposed by the city in the 2005 Hunts Point […]

NYC Replaces a Parking Crater With Parking-Free Housing and Retail

By Stephen Miller | Mar 26, 2015 | 11 Comments

One of Manhattan’s few remaining parking craters is going to be filled in with housing and retail — all without any car storage, despite the city government’s belief that the site called for up to 500 parking spots. Call it “Parking Sanity.” The project, called Essex Crossing, is on the Lower East Side. It replaces surface lots formerly known as the […]

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