Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

Flushing Meadows: Park or Parking Lot?

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 26, 2006 | 2 Comments

Streetsblog doesn’t manage to get out to Queens all that often these days, so it’s good to know that The Park Watchdog is keeping an eye on Flushing Meadows Park. Here is what he sees: Cars. Lots of them. Parked all over the grass. The Dog’s general thesis: When Robert Moses handed over Flushing Meadows park in 1967 to […]

They Paved Prospect Heights and Put up a Parking Lot

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 23, 2006 | No Comments

One of the more troublesome aspects of Forest City Enterprise’s "Atlantic Yards" proposal is the developer’s plan to create two rather huge, suburban mall-style surface parking lots on the eastern side of the project footprint. If all goes as planned there will 3,600 new parking spaces will be in place by 2012. Today, BrooklynSpeaks runs an […]

The Iris Weinshall Renaissance

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 13, 2006 | 10 Comments

DOT Commissioner Iris Weinshall’s speech was, for many long-time Livable Streets advocates, the single most remarkable aspect of yesterday’s Manhattan Transportation Policy Conference. As Jon Orcutt at TSTC noted, Weinshall’s speech "laid out an array of measures to improve New York’s pedestrian and bicycling environments, soften the quality of life impacts of heavy traffic, and […]

Great New Website: Get Outta MyBikeLane

By Aaron Naparstek | Oct 9, 2006 | 9 Comments

Check out my favorite new web site, MyBikeLane, by Greg Whalin. It’s a simple idea. If you see a motor vehicle parked in a bike lane, snap a photo of it with your digital camera or camera phone. Upload the photo to MyBikeLane. The web site publishes the photo of the offending bike lane blocker […]

Central Park(ing Lot)

By Aaron Donovan | Sep 29, 2006 | 10 Comments

Ed. Note: This has got to be the best item ever to come to us via a Streetsblog tipster. We love the photos! Got a post you’d like to share? You know what to do. Recent reports have drawn attention to city officials abusing their parking privileges around municipal buildings in crowded commercial districts. Images of portly desk-sitting bureaucrats […]

Above the Law: Parking Permit Abuse Study Released

By Aaron Donovan | Sep 28, 2006 | 5 Comments

Transportation Alternatives has released a study of parking permit abuse among New York City employees (as observed in nine neighborhoods). Their press release notes the study’s key findings: Citywide, more than 3 out of every 4 permit holders (77%) use their permits illegally. The NYPD is responsible for 46% of illegal permit abuse, by far […]

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