Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

Times Architecture Critic Calls For Eliminating NYC Parking Minimums

By Noah Kazis | Jan 6, 2012 | 9 Comments

The fight to eliminate parking minimums in New York City just went mainstream. As part of a wide-ranging exploration of parking lots and public space set to run in Sunday’s paper, New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman signed on to the growing list of people urging New York City’s Department of City Planning to […]

How to Make Your Own Free Parking Near the Atlantic Yards Site

By Ben Fried | Jan 6, 2012 | 8 Comments

Via Norman Oder at Atlantic Yards Report, here’s a variety of parking scofflaw that we’ve never come across before on Streetsblog. In the video, an early morning car commuter, presumably someone working on the nearby Barclays Center arena project, apparently decides that the last parking space on this block of Pacific Street (between Sixth Avenue […]

DCP Advances Promising Manhattan Parking Reforms, Fixes Flawed Study

By Noah Kazis | Jan 3, 2012 | 4 Comments

When plans to reform parking policies in the Manhattan core leaked out of the Department of City Planning last fall, the documents presented a riddle. The proposed changes were solid reforms to successful policies, closing loopholes in the existing parking caps and rationalizing the current system. The draft study which accompanied the reforms, however, seemed […]

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SFPark Manager: Too Early to Evaluate Groundbreaking Parking Program

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 16, 2011 | No Comments

It’s too soon in the development of SFPark to draw any conclusions about the effectiveness of demand-responsive pricing on parking habits, says the SFMTA’s Jay Primus, who manages the SFPark program. Primus got in touch yesterday when the Streetsblog Network highlighted a blog post from Michael Perkins at Greater Greater Washington which claimed that the results of the […]

A Day in the Life of a Pop-Up Café

By Ben Fried | Dec 9, 2011 | 1 Comment

Take a break this weekend from the unrelentingly bleak news about Governor Cuomo’s stealth attack on the transit system, and enjoy this time-lapse of the new pop-up café at Local on Sullivan Street. Up until this July, a camera at this location would only have recorded the occasional act of parallel parking and feeding the […]

Will City Planning Commission Uphold Parking Maximums at St. Vincent’s?

By Noah Kazis | Dec 6, 2011 | 6 Comments

The sides are lining up for and against the oversized parking garage that the Rudin family wants to build for its luxury apartments at the former St. Vincent’s Hospital site in Greenwich Village. Supporting the request to exceed Manhattan’s parking maximums is Borough President Scott Stringer. Opposing it are the community board and the urban […]

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