Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

Opposition Brewing to DOT’s Proposal for 9th Street Bike Lanes

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 29, 2007 | 15 Comments

Tonight, 6:30 pm at Old First Church on 7th Avenue and Carroll Street, the transportation committee of Brooklyn Community Board 6 hosts a blockbuster follow-up meeting to the "One-Way? No Way!" extravaganza of March 15. While I haven’t managed to get a look at DOT’s proposal, we know a few things about it: It will […]

Ungrateful Liberal Scum, “We Do Not Summons Our Own.”

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 28, 2007 | 37 Comments

A certain sense of entitlement emerges in the UncivilServants comments section. Posted verbatim, no spelling check: I have no intensions of ever parking legally whenever I am in NYC. It is a perk that has been in standard practice since the end of time. It is not the officer’s fault that the NYPD does not […]

Streetfilms: George Washington Parked Here

By Jason Varone | Mar 26, 2007 | 5 Comments

Red Hook Lane: A Parking Lot to HistoryA StreetFilm by Sean CliffordRunning time: 1 minute 22 seconds StreetFilms’ Sean Clifford discovers that one of New York City government employees’ favorite illegal parking spots in Downtown Brooklyn happens to be the last vestige of a historic road that played a significant role in the Revolutionary War. […]

StreetFilms: Interview with Parking Guru Donald Shoup

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 20, 2007 | No Comments

Donald Shoup on the High Cost of Free Parking Running time: 6 minutes 37 seconds "I don’t see why people have to pay market rents to live in a neighborhood but the cars should live rent-free. In New York you have expensive housing for people and free parking for cars. You’ve got your priorities exactly […]

Things Heating Up Over at UncivilServants.org

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 19, 2007 | 14 Comments

Over at the site UncivilServants.org, the Transportation Alternatives project where readers can post photos of illegally parked cars sporting government-issued parking permits (like the court officers above who are comfortably ensconced in a no-parking zone on Crosby Street), there’s a hot thread on whether showing the plate numbers of the vehicles constitutes a potentially dangerous […]

DOT Makes the Case for Bike Routes Parallel to W. Houston St.

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 16, 2007 | 29 Comments

Last Tuesday night Ryan Russo and Josh Benson from the Department of Transportation presented a plan to Manhattan’s Community Board 2 to create a safer east-west bike route across Lower Manhattan. With three cyclists having been killed on Houston Street over the last two years and major reconstruction of the street currently underway, members of […]

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