Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

Report from Atlanta: Don’t Walk This Way

By Sarah Goodyear | | 23 Comments
I can’t get behind Prevention Magazine’s ranking of New York as 39th among the nation’s most walkable cities. But after spending three days in Atlanta for a conference recently, I have no problem understanding why it rates 86th. Stuck, like most of the city’s legions of conventioneers, in the area around the Peachtree Center, I […]

The New York City Parking Boom

By Josh Brustein | | 14 Comments
The first in a three-part series on New York City parking policy. Last December, in announcing the goals of his Long-Term Planning and Sustainability initiative, Mayor Michael Bloomberg raised the terrifying specter of New York City commuters in the year 2030 stuck in an eight-hour "rush hour." This all-day traffic jam would become a reality, the […]

$100 for a Year’s Worth of Parking

By Jason Varone | | 25 Comments
A new report [pdf] from the New York City Independent Budget Office explores the idea of a residential permit parking program: Under the proposal, permit parking zones would be created in selected areas of the city. Within these zones, only permit holders would be eligible for on-street parking for more than a few hours at […]

Pay Here to Park for Free

By Aaron Donovan | | 8 Comments
George Costanza, who never pays for a garage, fights for on-street parking on Seinfeld. In subtle but potentially significant ways, the Web is changing the way we as urban residents relate to the automobile. Zipcar allows you to rent a nearby car by the hour without visiting a counter — a method of car sharing that could drastically reduce the need for parking […]

Old Gray Lady Gets on the Bandwagon

By Sarah Goodyear | | 5 Comments
The New York Times came out advocating for progressive transportation policies in its Sunday City section editorial, saying that the departure of DOT Commissioner Iris Weinshall presents "a great opportunity to take bold action on a vexing quality of life and health issue: traffic congestion." After giving Weinshall props for her actions on the Queens […]

There’s No Such Thing as “Free Parking”

By Aaron Naparstek | | 20 Comments
Free parking, it turns out, isn’t free. A new study by transportation guru Bruce Schaller finds that free parking in Manhattan’s Central Business district is responsible for a significant amount of New York City’s staggering traffic congestion. Schaller’s new study, Congested Streets: The Skewed Economic Incentives to Drive Into Manhattan (PDF), finds that free parking […]
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