Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Development

Chin Asks de Blasio to Choose Affordable Housing Over Cheap Parking

By Stephen Miller | Jul 8, 2014 | 11 Comments

Council Member Margaret Chin has set up a simple choice for Mayor Bill de Blasio: Which is the higher priority, affordable housing or cheap parking? In a letter to Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg first reported by the Wall Street Journal [PDF], Chin urged the de Blasio administration to redevelop the city-owned parking garage on Ludlow Street […]

Proposal to Turn Car Storage Into Human Housing Hits Brooklyn CB6 Tonight

By Ben Fried | Jun 26, 2014 | 105 Comments

Just a reminder that today at 6 p.m., Brooklyn Community Board 6 will hold a public hearing about the conversion of a 230-car garage on Union Street into a mixed-use building with housing and retail. While traffic on Union Street is bound to improve without all that car storage generating car trips, some nearby residents […]

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Pew Survey: Liberals Want Walkability, Conservatives Want a Big Lawn

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 13, 2014 | No Comments

Americans are increasingly sorted along ideological lines. There is less diversity of opinion among the people we associate with, in the media we consume, and even where we want to live. That’s according to a new report from Pew Research Center studying political polarization in the United States. Perhaps most interestingly, the report found stark differences in preference for […]

Sooner or Later, the Brooklyn-Queens Waterfront Needs Better Transit

By John Petro | May 22, 2014 | 30 Comments

The Brooklyn and Queens waterfront is in the midst of a grand transformation that’s only just begun. Newly built Brooklyn Bridge Park is already firmly established as one of the city’s most stunning public spaces. The Brooklyn Navy Yard now hosts glitzy fashion shows by international designers like Alexander Wang and Dior. Long Island City’s waterfront is […]

De Blasio Housing Plan Meekly Suggests Parking Reform

By Ben Fried | May 7, 2014 | 20 Comments

There’s a deep connection between parking policy and housing affordability. The more space New York devotes to car storage, the less space is available to house people. And yet, 50 year old laws mandating the construction of parking in new residential development persist in most of the city, driving up construction costs and hampering the […]

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Tulsa’s First Open Streets Event Reimagines Notorious Parking Crater

By Angie Schmitt | May 6, 2014 | No Comments

Typically, no one goes to the southern end of downtown Tulsa to socialize. This part of town has been so overrun with parking lots that Streetsblog readers crowned it the worst “parking crater” in the country in our first Parking Madness competition last year. But last Sunday, thousands of people gathered smack in the middle […]

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