Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

New York’s Car Ownership Rate Is on The Rise

By Noah Kazis | Apr 6, 2011 | 60 Comments

Car-free households broken down by Assembly district. Red areas indicate where car ownership has gone up, blue areas where it has decreased. Click on each district for more information. Fewer New Yorkers are driving to work than they did a decade ago, according to Census data Streetsblog reported on last December. But that same data […]

Ratner Arena Will Include 400 Satanic Bike Parking Spots

By Ben Fried | Apr 5, 2011 | 13 Comments

Well, this doesn’t make up for the eminent domain abuse, inexcusable subsidies-slash-dealmaking, crappy urban design and extensive surface parking acreage, but the Wall Street Journal’s Jason Gay reminds us that the Brooklyn basketball arena financed by Bruce Ratner, Mikhail Prokhorov, and the taxpayers of New York State will include 400 bike parking spaces. Gay’s report […]

SoHo’s Rejected Pop-Up Cafés Won’t Appear Elsewhere

By Noah Kazis | Mar 29, 2011 | 3 Comments

Last Thursday evening, Manhattan Community Board 2 voted down five of six approved pop-up cafés in their neighborhood, choosing parking spaces over public seating. In the wake of that defeat, we were hoping that, as with Midwestern governors sending their high speed rail dollars to California, their loss would be someone else’s gain. Would those […]

Road Diets But No Bike Lanes for Two Queens Traffic Calming Projects

By Noah Kazis | Mar 25, 2011 | 45 Comments

DOT presented plans for two Long Island City street redesigns to Queens Community Board 2’s transportation committee last night. One, a standard road diet, would calm traffic on 44th Drive by replacing one moving lane in each direction with a painted median and left turn bays [PDF]. The other, a novel design for a single […]

Pop-Up Café Expansion Faces Critical Community Board Vote Tonight

By Noah Kazis | Mar 24, 2011 | 18 Comments

When DOT installed its first “pop-up café” over a few parking spaces on Lower Manhattan’s Pearl Street last summer, the 14-table public seating area helped increase business by 14 percent at its two sponsoring restaurants. With New York City still recovering from recession and much of the city starved for public space, DOT has moved […]

New York Has 81,875 Metered Parking Spaces, And Millions of Free Ones

By Noah Kazis | Mar 22, 2011 | 38 Comments

Today’s New York Post story about City Council Member David Greenfield’s desperate push to squeeze a few more parking spaces out of New York City curb space reminded us of this neat little chart, which shows the total number of parking meters in the city, broken out into single-space meters and muni-meters. If Greenfield and […]

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