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You Can Drive a Truck Through the Gaps in City’s Refusal to Remove Sheridan

By Stephen Miller | Jun 28, 2012 | 17 Comments

Last month, the Bloomberg administration unexpectedly ruled out the option of removing the Sheridan Expressway and replacing it with housing and parks, telling South Bronx advocates that added truck traffic projected for local streets was a “fatal flaw” in the highway teardown. After a closer look at that truck traffic analysis, however, the coalition calling […]

Inez Dickens and EDC Want to Keep Four Stories of Parking in Harlem Project

By Noah Kazis | May 17, 2012 | 5 Comments

The New York City Economic Development Corporation’s commitment to replacing any parking spaces the agency builds on top of is a one-way ratchet toward ever-increasing amounts of automobile infrastructure. For projects at Flushing Commons and the Lower East Side’s SPURA site, slated to be built over surface parking lots, EDC has pushed for the new developments to include hundreds of […]

EDC Wants 500 Parking Spots at Long-Awaited Lower East Side Development

By Noah Kazis | May 15, 2012 | 30 Comments

The Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, or SPURA, is the largest undeveloped, city-owned area south of 96th Street. Located along the south side of Delancey Street at the foot of the Williamsburg Bridge, SPURA currently consists of five empty lots, the leftovers of a 1967 slum clearance project. Though mid-century towers-in-a-park style housing was built […]

Can Staten Island’s North Shore Become NYC’s Next Great Neighborhood?

By Noah Kazis | Mar 9, 2012 | 7 Comments

Staten Island’s North Shore is one of the city’s great sites of opportunity. The neighborhoods along the Kill Van Kull are twice as dense as the rest of Staten Island, but lack any transit option beyond the bus. There are historic town centers at St. George and Port Richmond, but car-centric planning deadens street life. […]

At St. George, EDC Wants Suburban-Style Parking for Its “Vibrant Downtown”

By Noah Kazis | Aug 12, 2011 | 8 Comments

St. George Staten Island could become the region’s next great downtown. That’s the plan over at the New York City Economic Development Corporation, which is about to redevelop two waterfront sites immediately adjacent to the ferry terminal. Yet even though EDC touts the unparalleled transit access at the sites, which are currently surface parking lots, […]

Replacement For Yankee Stadium Parking Will Still Have to Pay The Bills

By Noah Kazis | Mar 17, 2011 | 16 Comments

As the operator of the taxpayer-financed Yankee Stadium parking garages heads toward default, there’s no longer any question that providing so much parking in such a transit-rich location was a mistake on the scale of Carl Pavano’s contract. The decision to give up $2.5 million in city taxes and $5 million in state revenue has […]

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