Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

New Sheriff in Chinatown

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 16, 2007 | 4 Comments

The Fifth Precinct in Lower Manhattan has a new commanding officer, a local boy, Dep. Inspector Gin Yee, and he’s not afraid to tow some cars, even if they belong to his co-workers. In fact, he’s already towed 15 cars, 12 of which belonged to NYPD officers. Downtown Express reports: David Eng, who co-owns Fong […]

The Power of Parking Policy

By Josh Brustein | Mar 15, 2007 | 4 Comments

This is the third in a three-part series on New York City parking policy.Part 1: The New York City Parking Boom Part 2: Parking: If You Build it They Will Come… in Their Cars Over the course of the last year, New York City’s transportation policy community has spent tremendous time, energy and money pursuing […]

UncivilServants.org: Cleaning Up Illegal Permit Parking

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 15, 2007 | 13 Comments

In New York City, a privileged class of workers numbering in the thousands breaks the law every day by using government-issued permits to park their personal vehicles wherever they want. They disrupt traffic, create safety hazards, and degrade quality of life and, yet, no matter how much people complain, nothing ever seems to change. One […]

“Parking Rock Star” Donald Shoup Plays Broadway

By Neil deMause | Mar 13, 2007 | 6 Comments

Early Friday morning, more than 100 transportation experts and advocates descended on the garish hell that is New Times Square to hear a two-hour presentation about parking. In a cozy theater across the street from Dave and Buster’s, UCLA urban planner Donald Shoup held forth on his much-discussed ideas for reforming traffic via "market-based" street […]

Parking Permit Abusers Being Cleared from Chinatown?

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 13, 2007 | 3 Comments

A Chinatown tipster sent along these remarkable pictures yesterday of what seems to be an effort to cut down on placarded vehicles clogging the neighborhood’s streets: There are white paper signs posted on lamp poles and parking meters that say "No Permit Area, Tow Away Zone." Lo and behold, there are hardly any cars with […]

Parking: If You Build it They Will Come… in Their Cars.

By Josh Brustein | Mar 12, 2007 | 10 Comments

This is the second in a three-part series on New York City parking policy.Part 1: The New York City Parking Boom In recent years, urban planners have come to accept a somewhat counter-intuitive theory called "induced demand." The theory posits that when you build a new road or widen an existing one to try to […]

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