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A Streets Renaissance in Lower Manhattan

By Brad Aaron | | 10 Comments
Last weekend the New York Times published a nice piece about a resurgence in downtown Manhattan street life. Optimism abounds now among developers and merchants, who are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into real estate along the narrow streets of Lower Manhattan. They are counting on the district, in its next incarnation, to be not […]

Vote Postponed on Yankees Parking Subsidy

By Brad Aaron | | 2 Comments
In an unusual move, the board of the New York City Industrial Development Agency (IDA) this morning postponed a vote on whether to issue tax-free bonds for parking facilities at the new Yankee Stadium. At a hearing last week, residents of the South Bronx, along with public advocates, protested the $225 million triple tax exempt […]

The Bronx Is Burning Over Subsidized Stadium Parking

By Brad Aaron | | 16 Comments
The people of the South Bronx will organize against the subsidized construction of parking garages for the new Yankee Stadium, one resident said yesterday. At a sparsely attended public hearing in Lower Manhattan, Margaret Collins of Save Our Parks told the New York City Industrial Development Agency (IDA) that a "barely contained rage" is simmering over the traffic the new […]

Bronx Boro Prez Issues Protest at Yankees Parking Hearing

By Brad Aaron | | 4 Comments
This morning a representative of Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion, Jr., read a statement of protest ahead of an expected Tuesday vote on the city’s deal with the Yankees to subsidize the construction of three parking garages. Testifying before the NYC Industrial Development Agency (IDA), which is poised to issue over $200 million in triple tax […]

Take Me Out to the Yankees Parking Subsidy Hearing

By Brad Aaron | | 18 Comments
As Streetsblog reported back in April, the city is set to subsidize thousands of parking spaces for the new Yankee Stadium by issuing hundreds of millions in tax-exempt bonds for parking deck construction. The Post reported this week that one of the four planned parking structures has been scuttled, but the rest remain on the […]

Casino-Jamming in the Catskills

By Sarah Goodyear | | 5 Comments
Way back in February Gov. Eliot Spitzer declared his support for a plan to build a $600 million casino in the Catskills. Now opponents of the St. Regis Mohawk tribe project, which would be located at the Monticello Racetrack in Sullivan County, have launched a public-relations campaign highlighting the traffic congestion and sprawl they say […]
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