Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

Parking Requirements Will Be Reduced in a Huge Chunk of NYC

By Ben Fried | Mar 17, 2016 | 83 Comments

The de Blasio administration and the City Council released more details of their agreed-upon housing plan this afternoon, including a map showing where parking requirements will be reduced. For the most part, it’s very good news: Parking requirements will be eliminated for subsidized housing and senior housing in 90 percent of the area originally proposed by City […]

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It’s Washington vs. Burlington in the Parking Madness 2016 Tip Off!

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 17, 2016 | No Comments

Welcome to Parking Madness, Streetsblog’s annual Sweet 16 tournament of parking craters. What’s a parking crater? Simply put, it’s a depression in the cityscape, a void where car storage has usurped land that should be devoted to buildings. This is the fourth year Streetsblog readers have submitted more than enough entries to field a 16-crater bracket. Thanks to everyone who […]

Mark-Viverito’s East Harlem Plan Recommends Tossing Parking Minimums

By David Meyer | Feb 26, 2016 | 4 Comments

Council Speaker Melissa Mark Viverito has released an “East Harlem Neighborhood Plan” to guide the city’s rezoning of the community, and one of the recommendations is the elimination of parking minimums. The 138-page plan [PDF] was developed over the past 10 months as a joint project of Mark-Viverito, Community Board 11, Borough President Gale Brewer, and the […]

4 More City Council Members Weigh in on Parking Reform

By David Meyer | Feb 18, 2016 | 9 Comments

Last week, City Hall’s proposal to reduce parking minimums for subsidized housing near transit got a hearing in the City Council, and for the most part it wasn’t pretty. Council members may say they want more affordable housing, but for many of them, that support gets shaky if it means requiring less parking in residential development. The parking reforms are part […]

Eric Adams Proposes Downtown Brooklyn Car-Share Fleet for City Agencies

By Brad Aaron | Feb 12, 2016 | 7 Comments

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams is open to clearing Borough Hall Plaza of parked cars, and he also wants City Hall to study a car-share system for government agencies in Downtown Brooklyn. We reported last November that Adams and his staff resumed using the plaza as a parking lot after an $11 million rehab, following the lead of his predecessor, shameless space hog Marty […]

Paying for Parking in NYC Is About to Get Easier, But Will It Get Smarter?

By David Meyer | Feb 12, 2016 | 14 Comments

Last week, Mayor de Blasio and DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg announced the implementation of a new payment option for all of the city’s 85,000 metered parking spaces. By the end of the year, people will be able to pay for parking using a mobile app. Mobile payment is a lot more convenient for drivers than Muni meters […]

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