Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

Vacca Watch: Council Allows Parking Meter Rates to Rise to Dollar Per Hour

By Noah Kazis | Jul 1, 2011 | 4 Comments

After a grim day, it’s nice to be able to head into the holiday weekend with some good news. In a vote on Wednesday, the City Council allowed a proposed parking meter rate hike to move forward. The cost of parking on the street for an hour will increase from 75 cents to a dollar […]

Vacca Watch: At Budget Hearing, Council Calms Down, Focuses on Potholes

By Noah Kazis | Jun 3, 2011 | 10 Comments

Call it the case of the missing demagoguery. Yesterday’s City Council transportation budget hearing was less notable for what was said than what wasn’t. Attacks on the city’s proposed parking meter rate increase were largely absent, and the scapegoating of bike lanes and pedestrian plazas that has dominated recent hearings in James Vacca’s committee failed […]

DOT’s Jamaica Plan: Unclog Queens Transit Hub With 1.4 Miles of Bus Lanes

By Noah Kazis | May 16, 2011 | 3 Comments

We missed these when they were first released in late March, but DOT has come out with its preliminary recommendations for improving bus service in downtown Jamaica [PDF]. The plan calls for adding roughly a mile and a half of new bus lanes and beefing up an equal amount of existing lanes. It would also […]

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How Would Blumenauer’s New Commuter Benefit Proposal Work?

By Tanya Snyder | May 11, 2011 | No Comments

Source: Donald Shoup If you drive to work, you can get a $230 monthly parking benefit, subsidized by the federal government and paid through your employer. If you take transit, right now you can get up to $230 per month, but the cap may revert to $120 when the current transit benefit law expires at […]

DCP Official: Parking Minimums Buy Support for Upzonings

By Noah Kazis | May 11, 2011 | 4 Comments

We reported yesterday that Department of City Planning Sustainability Director Howard Slatkin recently announced that his agency “believe[s] there are opportunities to lower parking requirements” in a ring of neighborhoods around the Manhattan core. This would be an important step forward in overhauling decades-old policies that lead to more traffic and less affordable housing. Importantly, […]

Eyes on the Street: Midtown Pop-Up Café an Instant Attraction

By Noah Kazis | May 10, 2011 | 19 Comments

Pop-up indeed! A reader sends along this photo of the new pop-up café on 44th Street, just west of Third Avenue. The local community board just approved the café in March, while one local resident, convinced that Midtown is an “inappropriate location” for more public seating, was still fighting to block it last month. Now […]

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