Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

Eyes on the Street: At Knickerbocker Ave. Station, No Such Thing as TOD

By Noah Kazis | Nov 29, 2011 | 3 Comments

This isn’t what transit-oriented development is supposed to look like. Reader Christopher Taylor Edwards sent us these photos from two blocks of Knickerbocker Avenue in Bushwick. Immediately adjacent to the M train, suburban-style development — complete with single-story buildings, drive-throughs and underutilized parking lots — marks the end of a vibrant commercial corridor. One block down […]

Will DCP Withstand the Real Estate Lobby Assault on Parking Maximums?

By Josef Szende | Nov 23, 2011 | 5 Comments

At last week’s Transportation 2030 conference, Real Estate Board of New York Senior Vice President Michael Slattery made clear that his industry wants to eliminate one of the bedrock policies of traffic management in the New York City core. As Streetsblog reported last month, REBNY is mobilizing against the parking maximums which have helped to […]

Pedestrian Burdens: Sidewalk Atrocities in Bensonhurst, LIC, and Vinegar Hill

By Noah Kazis | Nov 22, 2011 | 2 Comments

Here they are: the first set of reader-submitted “pedestrian burdens,” courtesy of Michael Kodransky, co-author of ITDP’s recent report on European parking policy innovations. In this photo series, Streetsblog is cataloging the parking lots and garages that erode New York’s pedestrian realm, whether through blank walls, repeated curb cuts or unsightly structures. City Planning Commissioner […]

D.C. Planning Chief Urges New York City to Scrap Parking Minimums

By Noah Kazis | Nov 16, 2011 | 2 Comments

Yesterday, the Department of City Planning asked experts from around the country how to make a more sustainable zoning code. Their response? Scrap parking minimums. The recommendation came during a major conference held yesterday by DCP and Harvard University. Top urban thinkers from around the country gathered to discuss how the zoning code can make […]

Pedestrian Burdens: Send Us Pics of the Parking Garages Killing Your Street

By Noah Kazis | Nov 10, 2011 | 14 Comments

Get your cameras ready, Streetsbloggers. It’s time to show Department of City Planning Director Amanda Burden what city-mandated parking garages are doing to the streets in your neighborhood. In most of New York, it’s illegal to build anything of a certain size without a certain amount of parking, thanks to 1960s-era mandates in the city […]

NYC DOT to Roll Out Smart Parking Tech in 2012

By Noah Kazis | Nov 7, 2011 | 11 Comments

New York City is moving forward with plans to use sensors to improve parking management, along the lines of San Francisco’s pioneering SFPark system. The program will be unveiled next year, Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan announced at a conference on transportation and technology held last Friday at Columbia University. For now, DOT is only dropping […]

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