Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

In Flushing Meadows, Parking Encroaches on Queens Park Space

By Noah Kazis | Aug 1, 2012 | 4 Comments

When New York City played host to the 1939 World’s Fair, the most influential attraction in Flushing Meadows was General Motors’ Futurama, a miniature vision of a future with highways crisscrossing through cities and mass ownership of the personal automobile. A science fiction vision at the time, it wasn’t far off from what ultimately happened. […]

Wild, Wild West Side Has Its Own Vigilante Traffic Cop

By Noah Kazis | Jul 30, 2012 | 4 Comments

You’ve got to already be a little bit crazy to choose to drive into Midtown for work each day (as the record-breaking ridership numbers on the PATH train attest). Sitting in traffic, dodging the even crazier driver next to you — perhaps the only thing worse than driving near the Lincoln Tunnel is trying to […]

DOT Study Rejects Residential Parking Permits For Stadium Neighborhoods

By Noah Kazis | Jul 13, 2012 | 12 Comments

The Department of Transportation has rejected neighborhood demands to implement residential parking permits around the Barclays Center and Yankee Stadium, according to a DOT report released last Friday. DOT cited the availability of on-street parking spaces during Yankee games, the large number of non-residents parking on the street for purposes other than visiting the stadium, […]

Developers, CB 2: Let’s Repurpose Downtown Brooklyn’s Empty Parking

By Noah Kazis | Jun 21, 2012 | 17 Comments

Parking reform in Downtown Brooklyn doesn’t go far enough, said developers at a public hearing last night, and the land use committee of Brooklyn Community Board 2 agreed. They want reduced parking requirements to apply not only to new buildings, as proposed by the Department of City Planning, but also to existing buildings and developments […]

If DCP Won’t Scrap Downtown BK Minimums, Is Broader Parking Reform Dead?

By Noah Kazis | Jun 5, 2012 | 12 Comments

The proposed reduction of parking minimums in Downtown Brooklyn, though seriously insufficient, is good news for housing affordability and environmental sustainability in New York City. But it’s terrible news for those hoping to see broader reforms of New York City’s parking requirements. If the Department of City Planning felt so politically constrained that it could […]

DCP Proposal Will Cut Downtown Brooklyn Parking Minimums in Half

By Noah Kazis | Jun 4, 2012 | 6 Comments

Downtown Brooklyn’s mandatory parking minimums would be cut in half for new development and eliminated outright for affordable housing under a plan from the Department of City Planning. The change is significant — the first rollback of the costly and car-ownership inducing requirements under the Bloomberg administration — but doesn’t go far enough. Even by DCP’s own […]

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