Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

Monday’s Headlines: Martin Luther King Day Special

By Streetsblog Editorial Board | Jan 16, 2023 | No Comments

It’s fitting that today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day because the themes of the weekend were themes the great thinker dealt with repeatedly during his life: entitlement, privilege and inequity. Plus other news.

Historic haul: DSNY workers collect garbage from containers on W. 45th Street during the first day of the year-long residential Clean Curbs pilot on Dec. 13. Photo: Kevin Duggan

City Launches Long-Awaited Containerized Residential Trash Pilot

By Kevin Duggan | Dec 13, 2022 | No Comments

It's history in the taking as Sanitation workers start collecting trash from the curbside lane, not the sidewalk on one lucky block in Hells Kitchen.

Given how New Yorkers park, there's a lot of money to be made out there. (Note: This is an artist's rendering. The money will not automatically fall from the sky.)

Civilian Enforcement: A Get-Rich-Quick Scheme That Also Makes the City Safer

By Joseph Tedeschi | Dec 9, 2022 | No Comments

Want to make a six-figure salary and never leave your neighborhood? AND make the city safer? It may soon be possible.

To Help End the Housing Crisis, Less Parking is More, New RPA Report Says

By Julianne Cuba | Dec 8, 2022 | No Comments

The city should dramatically reduce the amount to car parking it requires developers to build because doing so will result in more much-needed affordable housing quickly — a new report concludes.

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What Comes Next After Abolishing Parking Mandates

By Tony Jordan | Nov 29, 2022 | No Comments

Parking mandates are an obstacle to sustainable communities: remove them and more apartments will be built at the expense of space for cars. But we need to do more.

Twitter locked the @placardabuse account over allegedly violating its privacy rules. Tweet courtesy of @placard abuse; montage: Streetsblog

Elon Musk’s Twitter Locks Out A Watchdog Placard Abuse Account

By Kevin Duggan | Nov 10, 2022 | No Comments

Does Elon Musk have a problem with public officials being called out for corruption?

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