Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

Pro-Parking Policies Will Sully the Legacy of PlaNYC

By Brad Aaron | Apr 27, 2009 | 6 Comments

Photo: Getty via Daily Intel Former Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff, widely credited as the architect of PlaNYC, spoke at the Museum of the City of New York last week on the potential impact of Mayor Bloomberg’s signature program. According to City Room, Doctoroff considers the two-year-old environmental blueprint on par with such grand projects as […]

Bloomberg: Buildings Can Be Green and Full of Parking

By Ben Fried | Apr 23, 2009 | 26 Comments

Mayor Bloomberg at today’s Gateway Center grand opening. Photo: WNYC. Kudos to Mayor Mike for calling out the Senate Dems’ poor excuse for an MTA plan. If only Bloomberg could see his own policies with such clear eyes. Yesterday the mayor unveiled a package of legislation designed to cut carbon emissions produced by buildings, to […]

Next American City Invites You to Their Spring Party, Thursday

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 2, 2009 | 6 Comments

The good people over at Next American City have extended an invitation to Streetsblog readers to the launch party for their Spring issue this coming Thursday. Seth Pinsky from the New York City Economic Development Corporation will be their guest of honor. It might be a great opportunity to ask him why his agency so […]

Simcha Felder Defends Parking Violators From Enforcement “Vultures”

By Ben Fried | Feb 23, 2009 | 14 Comments

In this clip from NY1’s "Road to City Hall," City Council member Simcha Felder defends his proposal to give drivers a five-minute "grace period" before they can be ticketed for overstaying the time limit at parking spots. Taking the law-and-order view is Transportation Alternatives director Paul White, who points out that codifying parking ticket excuses […]

Bloomberg Wants Stim Funds for More Bronx Parking

By Brad Aaron | Feb 9, 2009 | 23 Comments

Image via Crain’s Someone in the Bloomberg administration needs to sit the mayor down and explain to him the relationship between parking and driving. Streetsblog has followed Bloomberg’s parking escapades on the West Side of Manhattan and in the South Bronx. Now, the man behind PlaNYC wants federal stimulus funds to finish a new six-story parking […]

CB 12 Committee Says “No” to Parking Permits for All Teachers

By Brad Aaron | Feb 3, 2009 | 15 Comments

As we reported last week, Maria Baez and a handful of other City Council members want to issue free parking permits to every public school teacher in New York City. As the system presently employs some 95,000 full-time teachers, in addition to 18,000 part-time teachers and paraprofessionals, Intro 894 would encourage hundreds of thousands of […]

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