Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

Alternative Uses for Curbside Parking Space, Circa 1941

By Aaron Naparstek | May 18, 2007 | 6 Comments

This striking color photograph was snapped on Broome Street near Baruch Place (a street that vanished beneath the Bernard Baruch housing project) on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, September 27, 1941. The photo is part of the Charles W. Cushman collection at Indiana University. A tip of the hat to Kevin Walsh’s outstanding Forgotten […]

CB6 Committee Unanimously Approves 9th St. Project

By Aaron Naparstek | May 18, 2007 | 12 Comments

The transportation committee of Brooklyn Community Board 6, of which I’m a member, voted unanimously last night to approve DOT’s traffic calming and bike lane plan for Park Slope’s 9th Street. The approval came with requests that DOT build a bike lane along Prospect Park West, undertake a curbside management study aimed at alleviating double-parking […]

9th Street Road Diet Meeting Tonight

By Aaron Naparstek | May 17, 2007 | 2 Comments

Konrad Kaletsch‘s street safety petition to DOT, July 2005. Tonight, the Department of Transportation’s Traffic Safety and Bike Lane plan for Park Slope’s crash-prone 9th Street comes up before the transportation committee of Community Board 6 for the second time. Here are the details: 6:30 pm at Old First Church729 Carroll Street at 7th Avenue […]

Pedestrians Fighting Over the Scraps

By Aaron Naparstek | May 17, 2007 | 9 Comments

The Brooklynian message boards are often the scene of fierce fighting over Brownstone Brooklyn’s crowded sidewalk space. While Park Slope’s legion of double-wide stroller-pushing moms and sidewalk-riding cyclists tend to generate the most ire, yesterday a new target emerged: Guys playing cards on the sidewalk. Thankfully, these sidewalk fights seem to take place more in […]

Days Numbered for City Parking Privileges?

By Brad Aaron | May 16, 2007 | 3 Comments

Michael Bloomberg (front row, fourth from right) with other mayors at the C40 Summit City employees should not have the right to free parking any more than New Yorkers who labor in the private sector, Mayor Bloomberg said Tuesday, hinting that the perk which entices 35 percent of government workers to drive to Manhattan could […]

Anti-Pricing Council Member Has Pro-Parking Industry Fans

By Brad Aaron | May 14, 2007 | 7 Comments

With one possible exception, no elected official has been more outspoken against congestion pricing for New York City than Queens Council Member David Weprin. A scan of the city’s campaign finance database reveals over 20,000 reasons why that could be. It may not be a significant amount in relative terms, but since taking office in […]

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