Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

Meeting Tonight on Beseiged Plan to Calm NYU Campus

By Brad Aaron | Mar 5, 2008 | 5 Comments

Tonight, Community Board 2’s Transportation and Institutions Committees will hold a joint meeting to hear proposals from NYU to reclaim road space for pedestrians in the campus core area. Details have not been announced, but a tipster tells Streetsblog that possible proposals range from removal of parking spaces to allow for wider sidewalks and […]

Streetfilms: Excuses

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 28, 2008 | 6 Comments

Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson was walking around Manhattan one day last summer feeling what he describes as "a little sympathy for what it must be like to be a ticket writer in this town." He turned on his ever-present video camera and began shooting illegally parked cars and the variety of placards, badges and hand-scrawled notes […]

God Said, “Let There Be Parking Placards.” And It Was So.

By Ben Fried | Feb 27, 2008 | 17 Comments

Only three days remain until 20 percent of government parking placards must be surrendered, but as Gridlock Sam wrote here last month, that should be just the beginning of placard reform. Case in point: Uncivil Servants featured a story last week of an Upper East Side synagogue that manufactures its own bogus placards while the […]

Citizens Propose Cycle Track Greenway Connector in Inwood

By Brad Aaron | Feb 15, 2008 | 29 Comments

Broadway at Dyckman/200th Street and Riverside Drive: a confusing, foreboding free-for-all Livable streets advocates in Northern Manhattan are proposing a cycle track, similar to the one on Ninth Avenue in Chelsea, to link the Hudson River and Harlem River Greenways at 200th/Dyckman Street in Inwood. Dyckman currently has bike lanes at its east and west […]

City Planning: Fourth Avenue a “Missed Opportunity”

By Ben Fried | Feb 15, 2008 | 29 Comments

The 2nd Street entrance to the Crest, one of the recent additions to Fourth Avenue. After Streetsblog ran a critique of new development on Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue last week, we asked the Department of City Planning to address a few questions that came up in the comments. Namely, what can be done to stop developers […]

P.I.D. Stands for Smarter Parking and Cleaner Sidewalks

By John Kaehny | Feb 12, 2008 | 2 Comments

"Parking Improvement Districts" could help free up parking space and pay for streetscape improvements and maintenance on commercial strips like Kingsbridge Road in the Bronx. Sunday’s Daily News suggests an easy way for City Hall to win the support of local merchants for setting parking meter prices high enough to keep some curb spots open, […]

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