Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

Yankees’ Subsidy Deal Gets Stranger and Stranger

By Brad Aaron | Oct 3, 2007 | 10 Comments

The Yankee Stadium subsidy package is the gift that keeps on giving. If you’re the Yankees. Following up on his tour of the smelly swath of plastic turf the Yankees installed in the South Bronx after turning actual park land into a stadium construction site, Neil deMause reports in the Village Voice that a clause […]

Doubts About DOT Congestion Prescription in Jax Heights

By Sarah Goodyear | Oct 3, 2007 | 1 Comment

Community activists in Jackson Heights have been complaining about congestion at the corner at 73rd St. and 37th Ave. (right) for years. A major traffic study of the area is underway, but according to a DOT spokesman, the department didn’t want to wait to implement "short-term initiatives" that could ease the problem. Problem is, some […]

Eyes on the Street: 34th Precinct Leads by Example

By Brad Aaron | Sep 28, 2007 | 13 Comments

As seen outside Wednesday’s 34th Precinct Community Council meeting. The driver of this livery cab stopped on Broadway, backed 90 degrees into the crosswalk, drove forward (about halfway across the crosswalk) to straighten out, then backed up again, taking up a good share of the disabled access curb ramp in the process. Then he and […]

More Park(ing) Day: San Fran Rolls Out the Parkcycle

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 27, 2007 | 15 Comments

I was pretty sure that New York City had San Francisco beat for this year’s Park(ing) Day, what, with the children’s reading hour and the on-street gymnasium in Brooklyn; Staten Island and Queens getting in on the act; and German tourists frolicking on the sod in front of the MoMA (all captured by StreetFilms, […]

How Much Potential Park(ing) Space is There Anyway?

By Jason Varone | Sep 24, 2007 | 23 Comments

Writing for the Christian Science Monitor, Mark Clayton takes stock of the nation’s paved parking lots and asks "does America’s four-wheeled fleet really need all that extra elbow room?" This article comes on the heels of International Park(ing) Day, a one-day grassroots event in which urban dwellers all around the world transform metered, on-street parking […]

StreetFilms: Park(ing) Day 2007

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 24, 2007 | 8 Comments

Clarence Eckerson may have set an all-time speed record for the production of this inspiring StreetFilm on Park(ing) Day 2007. It’s a good one. Seeing pre-schoolers participating in an outdoor music class — in a parking space — on Brooklyn’s busy Cortelyou Rd., you definitely get the feeling that Park(ing) Day has, in just a […]

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