Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

Parking Madness 2015: Can Your Parking Crater Compete?

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 3, 2015 | No Comments

March is a special month on Streetsblog. It’s the time when the nation’s worst downtown parking scars face off head-to-head for the shame of winning the “golden crater” — and the local publicity bonanza that comes with it. For the third year running, we’re asking you to help seed the bracket in our Parking Madness […]

The New York City Parking Rule That Makes Intersections More Dangerous

By Brad Aaron | Feb 27, 2015 | 45 Comments

We’ve reported before how certain New York City parking rules are designed to cram a little more free car storage onto the street at the expense of pedestrian safety. In 2009, DOT removed parking restrictions on unmarked crosswalks at T intersections, and the city allows drivers with disability permits to block curb ramps that were […]

De Blasio Team Gradually Beefing Up Its Parking Reform Proposals

By Stephen Miller | Feb 24, 2015 | 20 Comments

New York is one step closer to overhauling a discredited policy that drives up the cost of housing and makes traffic congestion worse, but the scope of the reforms the de Blasio administration is pursuing remains limited. Last week, the Department of City Planning came out with the broad strokes of a major update to […]

Ridiculous David Greenfield Parking Bills: A Timeline

By Brad Aaron | Feb 2, 2015 | 74 Comments

A few years back Streetsblog ran a post with the headline “Another Year, Another David Greenfield Parking Bill.” And it’s true! Except for 2014, Greenfield has introduced or sponsored legislation intended to somehow lessen the hassle of parking every year since 2010. While he’s a vocal proponent of Vision Zero, it still seems Greenfield has never […]

Attention EDC: Big Development Projects Don’t Need Parking After All

By Stephen Miller | Jan 28, 2015 | 52 Comments

During the Bloomberg administration, city officials spearheading a giant Lower East Side mixed-use development larded it up with parking above and beyond what’s normally allowed in Manhattan. Now, the company in charge of building the project says it’s going to go parking-free, and is hosting a public meeting on its plan tonight. This could be […]

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The Spectacular Waste of Half-Empty Black Friday Parking Lots

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 1, 2014 | No Comments

If there’s one thing American planners fear, it’s that someone, sometime, somewhere, won’t be able to immediately find a parking space. Gigantic manuals have been devoted to avoiding this “problem,” and laws have been passed in nearly every community in the nation to ensure that no one ever lacks for parking. Chuck Marohn at Strong […]

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