Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

City Council’s Zeal for Affordable Housing Crumbles If It Means Less Parking

By David Meyer | Feb 11, 2016 | 41 Comments

On Tuesday, members of the City Council hammered the de Blasio administration for not guaranteeing enough housing units for low-income New Yorkers in new construction. But yesterday, when the topic turned to building more affordable housing by reducing parking requirements, several Council members lost their zeal for housing and worried more about car storage. The hearing yesterday […]

The Key for Park Slope to Keep Its Big Grocery Store: Less Parking

By Ben Fried | Feb 10, 2016 | 13 Comments

The notion that New York City housing construction shouldn’t be weighed down by mandatory parking minimums got a combative response from some City Council members at a hearing today. Streetsblog will have a thorough round-up of who said what tomorrow morning. In the meantime, here’s a quick detour to Park Slope for a related story about how parking rules […]

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If You Want to Buy a Car in Japan…

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Feb 10, 2016 | No Comments

If you want to buy a car in Japan, first you have to prove that you have somewhere to park it. That’s one of the policies Streetfilms encountered while interviewing experts for an upcoming three-part series on parking best practices. Here’s a sneak peek courtesy of Streetfilms correspondent Joe Baur, who grabbed this interview about the costs of car […]

A Vote for Parking Minimums Is a Vote to Keep the Rent Too Damn High

By David Meyer | Feb 10, 2016 | 18 Comments

[Editor’s note: With the City Council debating potential reforms to the city’s parking mandates today, we’re republishing this piece that originally ran in December. Stay tuned for coverage of the hearing later today.] Jimmy McMillan may have retired from politics, but the rent is still too damn high and New York City’s mandatory parking minimums are […]

Parking Reforms Cut Congestion, So When Will DOT Get Serious About Them?

By David Meyer | Jan 27, 2016 | 16 Comments

Earlier this month City Council transportation chair Ydanis Rodriguez convened a hearing on city parking policy. The committee addressed abuse of DOT- and NYPD-issued parking placards, but did not discuss one of the most promising initiatives in the city tool kit. PARK Smart is a program that increases parking rates on certain blocks at times when demand is highest. […]

NYPD Still Resisting Attempts to Reform Parking Placard Abuse

By David Meyer | Jan 15, 2016 | 32 Comments

Fraudulent parking placards are rampant in NYC, but NYPD remains opposed to a bill that would require the city to include a barcode on placards to ensure proper enforcement. Testifying before the City Council transportation committee today, NYPD Assistant Commissioner Richard Schroeder cited “significant fiscal, operational, and technological issues that… cannot be resolved within the one year effective […]

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