Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

Affordable Housing and Parking Reform: A Great Match for Mayor de Blasio

By Stephen Miller | Nov 8, 2013 | 19 Comments

Despite a policy book that included a top-notch street safety plank, Bill de Blasio never quite linked progressive transportation policy to social equity during the campaign. But the candidate’s campaign promises to reduce inequality did focus on the high price of housing, including a pledge to require developers to set aside a certain percentage of their projects […]

West Side Project Calls For 400-500 Parking Spots. Would EDC Want More?

By Stephen Miller | Oct 31, 2013 | 6 Comments

Developer TF Cornerstone has begun the process of getting rezonings and special permits from the City Planning Commission for its residential and retail project on 11th Avenue and 57th Street, which would replace a string of auto dealerships and a 1,000-space parking garage with a new project containing either 395 or 500 parking spaces, depending on the retail tenants. […]

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Curb Appeal

By Alan Durning | Oct 4, 2013 | No Comments

Alan Durning is the executive director of Sightline. This post is #15 in the Sightline series, Parking? Lots! Imagine if you could put a meter in front of your house and charge every driver who parks in “your” space. It’d be like having a cash register at the curb. Free money! How much would you collect? Hundreds […]

Eyes on the Street: Minivans Parked All Over Williamsburg Sidewalk, Bikeway

By Stephen Miller | Oct 3, 2013 | 34 Comments

A reader sent in this photo of what looks to be several dozen minivans in Williamsburg parked all over the sidewalk and bike lane on Kent Avenue. Along this section of Kent, which is part of the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway, the parked cars blocked both a southbound bike lane and a northbound bike route on […]

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There’s a (Parking) Place for Us

By Alan Durning | Sep 27, 2013 | No Comments

This post is #14 in the Sightline series, Parking? Lots! Alan Durning is the executive director of Sightline. There are places in this world the savvy traveler would never drive with any hope of finding street parking: Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco, for example, or just about anywhere in downtown Los Angeles. That’s what you […]

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Alan Durning on Reasons to Be Optimistic About Parking Reform

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 19, 2013 | No Comments

We hope you enjoyed part one of our Q&A with Alan Durning. Durning is publishing a series of articles on his blog at the Sightline Institute — where he serves as executive director — about the ways that underpriced parking drives up rents, eats up space, and makes no sense. A reader asked in the […]

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