Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

City Offers Tax Exemptions For Politically Connected Parking Operator

By Noah Kazis | Dec 3, 2010 | 5 Comments

Raking in millions by inducing more traffic on Jamaica’s congested streets? It’s charity, says New York City, and the business that does it should not pay taxes. A local non-profit with politically powerful friends managed to get its off-street parking garages classified as tax-exempt, despite being used exclusively for commercial purposes. The Daily News’ Juan […]

1,100 Space Parking Lot at Issue in Latest Atlantic Yards Fight

By Noah Kazis | Nov 30, 2010 | 24 Comments

The latest round of the knock-down drag-out fight over the Atlantic Yards project is underway, and it’s all about parking. At issue is a potential 1,100-space surface parking lot that would be located between Pacific and Dean Streets, just west of Vanderbilt Avenue. That lot has been portrayed as temporary, “interim” parking by the Empire […]

Cities Learn From Chicago Parking Meter Debacle. Did Goldsmith?

By Noah Kazis | Nov 17, 2010 | 10 Comments

When Chicago Mayor Richard Daley announced that he was striking a deal to privatize his city’s 36,000 parking meters, it was a golden opportunity for transportation reform. If all went well, the deal could have cleared a political path for higher peak-hour meter rates, curbing double-parking and congestion-causing cruising. But Chicago managed to completely bungle […]

Did City Planning Approve 430 Extra Parking Spaces at Riverside Center?

By Noah Kazis | Nov 16, 2010 | 3 Comments

Even by its own math, the City Planning Commission seems to have approved 430 parking spots too many at Riverside Center, the new development slated to straddle 60th Street on the far West Side. Last month the commission approved 1,260 parking spots for the project, 430 of which are intended to replace some of the […]

Parking May Be Part of PlaNYC Update, Tweets Goldsmith

By Noah Kazis | Nov 12, 2010 | 24 Comments

Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith dropped an intriguing hint this afternoon about the upcoming revision of New York City’s long-term sustainability plan. “We are looking at parking as part of @PlaNYC 2.0,” he tweeted. Now, there’s a lot that needs to happen between today and Earth Day 2011, when the update is due. “Looking at” parking […]

Gale Brewer Pessimistic About Further Riverside Center Parking Reductions

By Noah Kazis | Nov 8, 2010 | 2 Comments

Now that the City Planning Commission has called for 1,260 parking spaces at the Riverside Center development — instead of the 1,800 requested by the developer — the project moves on to the City Council for the final step of the city’s land use process. Traditionally, the local Council member representing the district is given […]

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