Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

Replacement For Yankee Stadium Parking Will Still Have to Pay The Bills

By Noah Kazis | Mar 17, 2011 | 16 Comments

As the operator of the taxpayer-financed Yankee Stadium parking garages heads toward default, there’s no longer any question that providing so much parking in such a transit-rich location was a mistake on the scale of Carl Pavano’s contract. The decision to give up $2.5 million in city taxes and $5 million in state revenue has […]

NYC Asks Banks For Ideas on Parking Privatization

By Noah Kazis | Feb 25, 2011 | 16 Comments

New York City is moving forward with possible plans to privatize its on-street parking to some degree. An RFP released last week by the city’s Economic Development Corporation asks investment banks to submit their best ideas for privatizing city assets. Parking tops the list of assets the city is interested in contracting with the private […]

Parking Requirements Force Affordable Housing Project to Shrink

By Noah Kazis | Feb 24, 2011 | 10 Comments

Parking minimums continue to stymie the creation of affordable housing in New York City, according to an architect who frequently designs those projects. When a rezoning suddenly put parking minimums in effect for an affordable housing project in the Bronx, Richard Ferrara of DeLaCour & Ferrara Architects was forced to cut apartments out of the building. […]

Senior Philly Planner, Unlike NYC Peers, Says Parking Minimums Matter

By Noah Kazis | Feb 22, 2011 | 11 Comments

We reported last week that Boston, Philadelphia and Washington D.C. are each making policy shifts to curb the proliferation of off-street parking even as New York City continues to enable the construction of more and more traffic-inducing, land-devouring parking. Streetsblog followed up with Debbie Schaaf, a senior transportation planner at Philadelphia’s planning department, about her […]

Bloomberg Budget Sets Up Round Two of Parking Meter Fight

By Noah Kazis | Feb 18, 2011 | 7 Comments

Mayor Bloomberg unveiled his budget plan yesterday, including hundreds of measures to close a deficit of billions of dollars [PDF]. While the most controversial element may be Bloomberg’s plan to lay off thousands of teachers, included among the smaller-scale deficit-closing measures is one that is sure to set up a fight over transportation policy. The […]

New York Falls Behind Big Northeast Cities on Parking Policy

By Noah Kazis | Feb 17, 2011 | 15 Comments

The city of Philadelphia recently released a draft of its new comprehensive plan, Philadelphia2035 [PDF]. The plan’s release makes New York the last city in the four largest Northeastern metro areas that hasn’t so much as stated a commitment to cutting back on off-street parking. Philadelphia2035 calls for controlling congestion by adding parking maximums into […]

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