Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

Bad News: Forest City Breaks Bike Parking Vow; Good News: Less Car Parking

By Noah Kazis | | 19 Comments
When Brooklyn’s Barclays Center opens with a Jay-Z concert this September, it will be one of the most transit-accessible arenas in the United States. But as Streetsblog has noted before, the transportation planning for the stadium is excessively car-oriented. Developer Forest City Ratner had been planning to build an 1,100-space surface parking lot, marring the pedestrian […]
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San Francisco: Reclaiming Streets With Innovative Solutions

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | | No Comments
Tom Radulovich, the executive director of the local non-profit Livable City, describes the recent livable streets achievements in San Francisco as “tactical urbanism” — using low-cost materials like paint and bollards to reclaim street space. That willingness to experiment was a big reason that the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) gave its 2012 Sustainable Transport Award to […]

Report Details How Onerous NYC’s Regressive Parking Minimums Really Are

By Noah Kazis | | 9 Comments
New research from New York University’s Furman Center [PDF] provides added evidence that New York’s parking minimums are forcing developers to provide unwanted automobile infrastructure, leading to less development, higher housing costs and more traffic. The new study expands on previous research from the Furman Center, extending the analysis from Queens to the other four […]

Quinn Deal Reduces Parking — and Housing — at St. Vincent’s Site

By Noah Kazis | | 4 Comments
Responding to requests from the community board and advocacy groups, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn did what neither the City Planning Commission nor Borough President Scott Stringer would: reduce the excessive number of parking spaces planned for the Rudin family’s redevelopment of the St. Vincent’s Hospital site. Originally, Rudin proposed building 152 spaces for 450 luxury […]
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