Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

Re-imagining Parking Spaces as Micro-Apartments

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 14, 2014 | No Comments

Can parking spaces get a second life? A student project in Atlanta helps demonstrate the possibilities in every stall. Students at the Savannah College of Art and Design created three “SCADpads:” 135-square-foot micro-apartments designed to fit in the space defined by a single parking spot. Three prototypes for these modular homes, which cost $40-$60,000 to […]

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Parking: Searching for the Good Life in the City

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jul 10, 2014 | No Comments

Streetfilms is proud to partner with ITDP to bring you this fun animation that’s sort of a cross between those catchy Schoolhouse Rock shorts and the credit sequence for a 1960s-style Saul Bass film. For too long cities tried to make parking a core feature of the urban fabric, only to discover that yielding to parking demand […]

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Be Jealous of São Paulo’s Precedent-Setting New Parking Policy

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 9, 2014 | No Comments

It may not be much consolation after yesterday’s World Cup defeat to Germany, but Brazil should feel at least a twinge of national pride over the groundbreaking new parking policies its largest city has adopted. Late last month, leaders in Sao Paulo approved a strategic master plan that will go a long way toward making […]

Chin Asks de Blasio to Choose Affordable Housing Over Cheap Parking

By Stephen Miller | Jul 8, 2014 | 11 Comments

Council Member Margaret Chin has set up a simple choice for Mayor Bill de Blasio: Which is the higher priority, affordable housing or cheap parking? In a letter to Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg first reported by the Wall Street Journal [PDF], Chin urged the de Blasio administration to redevelop the city-owned parking garage on Ludlow Street […]

The Unintended Consequences of Trimming Alt-Side Parking Hours

By Charles Komanoff | Jul 2, 2014 | 30 Comments

I remember alternate side of the street parking. It was 1974, and I was underemployed and living on West 22nd Street. My tiny Renault and I were regular participants in the twice-a-week “slide” that Matt Flegenheimer described in his Monday Times story on Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez’s bill to bar police from ticketing alternate-side-parked cars once […]

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