Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

An American Carwolf in London

By Aaron Naparstek | | 1 Comment
Economist Charles Komanoff points Streetsblog to a news brief from London where Mayor Ken Livingstone insists that the U.S. Embassy owes a whopping $1.6 million in unpaid congestion charging fees: Embassy employees have not paid the charges £8 ($15) a day for any car entering central London, since July 2005, arguing that the charge is […]

NYPD Parking Abuse Scandal Widens

By Aaron Naparstek | | 67 Comments
Chinatown businessman Jan Lee was cuffed and detained for photographing police officers’ illegally parked cars in front of his shop. Despite threatening late night calls to his home phone from a Brooklyn police officer (who forgot to block his phone number from appearing on caller ID), CBS Channel 2’s Brendan Keefe continues his series of […]

Cops Threaten Reporter Over Parking Scandal Report

By Aaron Naparstek | | 5 Comments
How important are illegal parking perks to New York City government employees? The Daily News reports that CBS Channel 2’s Brendan Keefe received threatening late night phone calls for his continuing coverage of the Lower Manhattan government employee parking scandal. Keefe’s story focused specifically on police officer parking perks: "Is it unsettling? Yes," Keefe said. "Is it […]

The Cost of Free Residential Parking

By Glenn McAnanama | | 11 Comments
No Curbside Access for Trucks Create Traffic Jams Across the City There is a source of congestion on every city street that has a solution. We need trucks to deliver goods to our stores, deliver food to our restaurants and to move furniture into and out of our homes. 100% of Manhattan’s goods enter the island […]

The Suburbanization of NYC’s Waterfront

By Ethan Kent | | 12 Comments
Recently, a bunch of us took a bike excursion along the East River waterfront from Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn to the new Water Taxi Beach in Hunters Point, Queens. Traffic was light most of the way and street life relatively heavy. Though currently dominated by old industrial buildings, the thriving neighborhoods adjacent to the waterfront seem […]
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