Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

In Chicago, Parks Funded By Parking Garages

By Jason Varone | Jul 16, 2007 | 3 Comments

Mayor Richard Daley has been aggressive in transforming Chicago into a more livable city, cracking down on sociopathic motorists, encouraging traffic-calming, promoting bicycling and paying attention to the nitty gritty environmental impacts of street design. The Chicago Tribune recently reported on the Mayor’s latest effort to fund citywide park-improvements projects using revenues from city-owned parking […]

Dollars for Democracy on Brian Lehrer Today

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 13, 2007 | No Comments

Today at 11:20am Brian Lehrer digs deeper into the story, published first here on Streetsblog, that congestion pricing opponent Richard Brodsky received more contributions from parking industry interests than any other New York State Assembly Member. You can tune in online. From the WNYC web site: What’s the connection between campaign contributions and policy making? […]

An NYC First: On-Street Parking Spaces Replaced by Bike Racks

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 12, 2007 | 26 Comments

The new bike racks have been installed at the Bedford Avenue L subway station in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. As the Dept. of Transportation announces in today’s press release, "The facility marks the first time car parking spaces have been removed to accommodate bicycle parking in New York City." DOT extended a 76-foot section of the sidewalk […]

Brooklyn Merchants Fight for Parking Over Affordable Housing

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 10, 2007 | 1 Comment

A group of profoundly confused Brooklyn merchants have convinced themselves that a nearby empty lot is better used for motor vehicle storage than affordable housing for 152 families. Oh, and by the way, the affordable housing plan includes an even larger parking lot beneath the building. The Daily News reports: A group of Williamsburg merchants […]

Richard Brodsky: Working for the Public or the Parking Industry?

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 9, 2007 | 54 Comments

Westchester Democrat Richard Brodsky has emerged as the State Assembly’s leading critic of Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan. Later today Brodsky will release a report on the steps of City Hall characterizing the Mayor’s congestion pricing plan as a regressive tax that puts most of the burden on poor and middle-income drivers (and ignoring the […]

Finally, Market Rates for Manhattan Street Parking

By Jason Varone | Jun 27, 2007 | 20 Comments

Arnold Diaz confronts some Avis employees on his "Shame Shame Shame" segment for Fox 5 News. He catches them apparently charging motorists $25 to park on a public street. This Avis branch is on the same block as the Beacon Theater, where employees have been taking up street parking during the day and selling the […]

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