Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

Guess-the-Suburb Winner Is: Matt

By Aaron Donovan | | 5 Comments
Remember Wednesday’s guess-the-anonymous-suburb contest? I’m very impressed: You all knew the right region — the northeast United States. (Was it the Ames sign? The trees? The first comment suggesting that this was a place "north of the city"?) Runner-up prizes consisting of official "Street Cred" go to Bill and Karla (your first attempt was closer!) for guessing […]

Can You Name the Town?

By Aaron Donovan | | 18 Comments
Sorry I missed posting last week’s Weekly Carnage everyone. I was out of town, um, visiting the strip mall in the photo above. Every time I leave the city I end up in a place like this: A sea of unused parking spaces in front of a strip mall accessible only by the car with no housing anywhere […]

Where to Park a Vespa in NYC?

By Glenn McAnanama | | 11 Comments
While the city is awash in places to park cars on the street and there is some provision for cyclists to park on sidewalks in some places, deciding where to park a Vespa is a difficult choice. Leave it on the street (like the photo above) where some automobile driver will inevitably hit it while trying to […]

Street Films: Gridlock Sam on Govt Employee Parking Abuse

By Aaron Naparstek | | 3 Comments
Gridlock Sam on Government Employee Parking AbuseA Clarence Eckerson Street Film Running time: 5:06, 13.80 MB, QuickTime With the news emerging that State Court employees are blocking off a public street in Lower Manhattan to run their own, private valet parking service while illegal government employee parking costs New York City $46 million in potential annual revenues, Streetsblog thought […]

Daily News Busts Govt Employee Valet Parking Racket

By Aaron Naparstek | | No Comments
Triple-parked cars of government employees in front of the "The Tombs" in Lower Manhattan State Court officials have turned Mulberry Street in Chinatown into their own private parking lot, valet service included. Today’s Daily News has a great article on the scam. Every morning two uniformed State Court officers block off the street with orange traffic […]
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