Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

Bedford Avenue Bike Parking Update

By Aaron Naparstek | | No Comments
A knowledgeable correspondent explains why the Williamsburg bike parking facility is being held up: The Bedford Avenue L Subway Station bike parking improvements are being held up by funding problems. State Assemblyman Joe Lentol has secured funding for the project, but Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has delayed the release of the funding because there was some […]

Williamsburg Bike Parking Woes

By Aaron Donovan | | 7 Comments
A Streetsblog tipster writes in with a nice slice-of-life dispatch: I was on North 7th street in Williamsburg this morning and I passed a young woman locking up her bike in front of a residential building. There were a handful of old-timers in front of their building complaining about the bikes — "pretty soon there’ll […]

Hugh Hardy: Architect Calls for Fresh Take on Public Life

By Alec | | 9 Comments
Hugh Hardy’s Greenwich Street South Study "The greatest achievement of New York is the streets," says architect Hugh Hardy. And he says we can achieve richer public places — if New York’s citizens can persuade officials to make those places serve people rather than cars. Hardy, who designed 42nd Street’s New Victory Theater and the […]

A Traffic-Free Future for Harlem

By Aaron Donovan | | 8 Comments
This is an artist’s rendering of what West 125th Street would look like after Columbia University’s expansion is completed more than a decade from now.  (It is included in an overview of the plans that appears in the print edition of Columbia magazine, which, um, hasn’t updated its web presence in a while.)  Regardless of whether you’re […]

Fewer Seats But More Cars at Yankee Stadium

By Aaron Donovan | | 2 Comments
Anybody else catch the Discovery Channel’s 2-hour special on global warming on Sunday night?  It recapped the many problems we can expect to see from global warming: potential death for millions of people, millions more forced to move as coastal cities are permanently flooded, extinction for many species of plants and animals, more frequent severe weather […]

Vehicle City

By Ethan Kent | | No Comments
Foreign correspondence from Ethan Kent at Project for Public Spaces: I was working in Flint, Michigan the first part of this week. Remarkably, for a city that was planned for everything but people, there are still some great people working to create a genuine "Steets Rennaissance." Flint originally built itself around the car and, after […]
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