Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

Gov’t Employee Parking at the High Bridge Rec Center

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 21, 2007 | 3 Comments

A tipster sends along this snapshot of the parking lot… I mean, sidewalk, outside the High Bridge Recreational Center prior to the meeting last night to discuss plans for the revitalized High Bridge. The talk inside, she says, "was much more encouraging" than the government employee parking situation outside.

Q&A With Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 20, 2007 | 20 Comments

Streetsblog interviewed DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan at 40 Worth St., Monday, June 18. Photo: Brad Aaron Janette Sadik-Khan: Four days. Streetsblog: Left in the legislative session? JSK: Yeah, well, maybe four days left, maybe more days. August in Albany. What can be better? SB: (Laughing) So, let’s start with something other than congestion pricing. How […]

David Weprin: The Parking Garage Industry’s Valet?

By Jason Varone | Jun 18, 2007 | 5 Comments

The Post finds that Queens City Council Member David Weprin has been raking in campaign contributions from parking garage owners, all the while serving as one of the loudest critics of Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan. This ought to sound familiar to Streetsblog readers. Back in May we found that Weprin had taken in at […]

Forever Double-Parked on Google’s Memory Lane

By Jason Varone | Jun 13, 2007 | No Comments

Writing about Google’s new Street View feature in this week’s Brooklyn Paper, Brooklyn Heights Blog publisher Homer Fink finds out why the New York City Police Department has doled out more parking summonses in Brooklyn Heights this year than in any other precinct in New York City: The first thing you notice when trolling the […]

New Bike Lanes Won’t Leave Room for Escalade Double-Parking!

By Jason Varone | Jun 12, 2007 | No Comments

Across the Park, a blog dedicated to Brooklyn’s Prospect Lefferts Gardens neighborhood, notes the striping of new bike lanes on Lincoln Road and Maple Street, just to the east of Prospect Park. We assume that this is meant to be read with an ironic tone, though, you really never know in Brooklyn these days: Someone […]

Eyes on the Street: A Special Lane for Parking Cars

By Aaron Donovan | Jun 6, 2007 | 11 Comments

This was the scene along the Edward L. Grant Highway in the Bronx on May 27, where the southbound buffered bike lane near Jerome Avenue was being blocked by SUVs from Florida and New Jersey and assorted other vehicles. The bike lane markings here are worn out by the constant wear and tear of automobile […]

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