Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about NYCEDC

Industry City Developer Thinks Sunset Park Waterfront Needs More Parking

By Stephen Miller | Mar 11, 2015 | 35 Comments

A Sunset Park developer wants to use city land for a giant new parking lot, in what’s shaping up to be a test for Council Member Carlos Menchaca and the NYC Economic Development Corporation. Industry City, which has 6 million square feet of industrial, office, and retail space in 16 buildings across more than 30 acres […]

Attention EDC: Big Development Projects Don’t Need Parking After All

By Stephen Miller | Jan 28, 2015 | 52 Comments

During the Bloomberg administration, city officials spearheading a giant Lower East Side mixed-use development larded it up with parking above and beyond what’s normally allowed in Manhattan. Now, the company in charge of building the project says it’s going to go parking-free, and is hosting a public meeting on its plan tonight. This could be […]

Weisbrod and Kimball Tie Their Own Hands on Parking Reform

By Stephen Miller | May 28, 2014 | 59 Comments

Reducing the amount of parking in new development promises to make housing more affordable and curb traffic congestion, but it hasn’t gained much traction in Bill de Blasio’s first months at City Hall, despite the mayor’s ambitious promises to ease the housing crunch. Today, two top city officials explained why, unlike their counterparts in more […]

West Side Project Calls For 400-500 Parking Spots. Would EDC Want More?

By Stephen Miller | Oct 31, 2013 | 6 Comments

Developer TF Cornerstone has begun the process of getting rezonings and special permits from the City Planning Commission for its residential and retail project on 11th Avenue and 57th Street, which would replace a string of auto dealerships and a 1,000-space parking garage with a new project containing either 395 or 500 parking spaces, depending on the retail tenants. […]

Feds Reject All Three NYC Applications for Latest Round of TIGER Grants

By Stephen Miller | Sep 5, 2013 | 6 Comments

This morning, U.S. DOT announced the winners in the latest round of its highly-competitive TIGER grant program. While upstate New York won grants for two projects — a highway teardown in Rochester and a complete streets project in Olean — New York City missed out, with applications for ferry improvements, a greenway connection in the Bronx, and […]

Don’t Ask Seth Pinsky About NYCEDC Parking Development

By Brad Aaron | Aug 15, 2013 | 9 Comments

“The worst thing we could do is create projects that create a parking need and then not provide that parking.” That was Seth Pinsky, former head of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, in 2010. True to that philosophy, during his tenure NYCEDC incentivized and financed suburban-style parking in development projects in neighborhoods across the city, […]

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