Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

Brodsky Taxes Milk! Toll Plazas Will be Named After Marc Shaw!

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 11, 2008 | 23 Comments

With its report released the day before, there wasn’t a lot of news to be found at yesterday’s meeting of the Congestion Mitigation Commission. There was, however, some good political theater and, with the deadline to produce a recommendation approaching, influential commissioners began staking out their positions. The day’s agenda was to discuss the four […]

Does Times Real Estate VP’s “Joke” Betray Anti-Bike Bias?

By Brad Aaron | Jan 11, 2008 | 13 Comments

In December, Streetsblog reported on the lack of bicycle parking in the new New York Times Building, despite promises to bike-commuting staff that there would be space inside. We talked to several Times employees who said that after initially being allowed to bring their bikes in, they were suddenly denied entry. A months-long standoff of […]

Bronxites Pick Parking Over People

By Brad Aaron | Jan 8, 2008 | No Comments

Residents of the Zerega Avenue section of the Bronx are upset that beds for the sick will be putting a crimp in neighborhood parking stock. The Bronx Times reports that a new four-story building on the corner of Herschell Street and Westchester Avenue, with apartments and a ground-floor medical facility, will be exempt from parking […]

At P.S. 161 in Harlem the Sidewalk is the Parking Lot

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 8, 2008 | 16 Comments

Streetsblog reader Richard Conroy sends along these photos and writes: Yesterday there was an article about Randi Weingarten saying teachers don’t abuse parking permits. I found that amusing since my daily commute takes me past P.S. 161 in Harlem where there are numerous vehicles parked on the sidewalk every school day. This school is on […]

Weingarten: “Teachers Are Not Abusers of Parking Permits”

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 7, 2008 | 58 Comments

A car with a teacher’s permit on the dashboard is parked beneath a "No Parking Anytime" sign. The license plate number does not match the one printed on the permit. (UncivilServants.org) United Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten sent a letter to Mayor Bloomberg Friday expressing objections to his plan to reduce the number of […]

City Hall to Reduce Parking Placards 20% and Centralize Control

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 3, 2008 | 44 Comments

Crosby Street, Soho: A veritable government employee parking lot. (Photo: UncivilServants.org) As reported last week on NYPD Rant, the City Hall crackdown on government employee parking placards has arrived. Acknowledging the dissonance between his congestion mitigation efforts and City employees’ flagrant parking abuse, Mayor Bloomberg today announced a reduction in the number of city government […]

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