Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

DCP Bringing Parking Reform to Downtown Brooklyn

By Noah Kazis | Jun 1, 2012 | 5 Comments

Downtown Brooklyn could finally get a reprieve from the onerous and outdated parking requirements that have forced developers to build costly, anti-urban garages which sit unused. A new DCP proposal filed earlier this week is described online as a “text amendment to modify the off-street parking regulations of the special Downtown Brooklyn district.” There’s not […]

Inez Dickens and EDC Want to Keep Four Stories of Parking in Harlem Project

By Noah Kazis | May 17, 2012 | 5 Comments

The New York City Economic Development Corporation’s commitment to replacing any parking spaces the agency builds on top of is a one-way ratchet toward ever-increasing amounts of automobile infrastructure. For projects at Flushing Commons and the Lower East Side’s SPURA site, slated to be built over surface parking lots, EDC has pushed for the new developments to include hundreds of […]

EDC Wants 500 Parking Spots at Long-Awaited Lower East Side Development

By Noah Kazis | May 15, 2012 | 30 Comments

The Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, or SPURA, is the largest undeveloped, city-owned area south of 96th Street. Located along the south side of Delancey Street at the foot of the Williamsburg Bridge, SPURA currently consists of five empty lots, the leftovers of a 1967 slum clearance project. Though mid-century towers-in-a-park style housing was built […]

City Still Wants to Privatize Parking Meters, But Not Pricing or Enforcement

By Noah Kazis | May 14, 2012 | 6 Comments

New York City is still interested in contracting out the operations of its roughly 82,000 metered parking spaces, according to a report in today’s Wall Street Journal. A prime motivation, it appears, is the belief that a private company could more quickly roll out high-tech additions to the city’s parking system, such as sensors that […]

Thanks to Brooklyn Parking Minimums, 360 Degrees of Ground Floor Parking

By Noah Kazis | May 7, 2012 | 19 Comments

Parking minimums have struck another blow for terrible urban design, this time just three blocks from the transit mega-hub of Atlantic/Pacific, where nine subway lines and the LIRR converge. A new luxury apartment building going up at the corner of Bergen Street and Third Avenue will dedicate its entire ground floor, facing both the side […]

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