Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

Fun Facts About the Sad State of Parking Policy

By Noah Kazis | Feb 24, 2010 | 13 Comments

Surface parking stretches halfway to the horizon in the heart of downtown Wichita, Kansas. Image: Wichita Walkshop via Flickr. If you haven’t checked out the ITDP parking report we covered yesterday, it’s a highly readable piece of research, walking you through parking policy’s checkered past and potentially brighter future. In addition to describing six cases […]

Want to Foster Walking, Biking and Transit? You Need Good Parking Policy

By Ben Fried | Feb 23, 2010 | 8 Comments

The high-water mark for American parking policy came in the early 1970s, when cities including New York, Boston, and Portland set limits on off-street parking in their downtowns. They were compelled to do so by lawsuits brought under the Clean Air Act, which used the lever of parking policy to curb traffic and reduce pollution […]

The Next New York: How NYC Can Grow as a Walkable City

By Noah Kazis | Feb 22, 2010 | 12 Comments

In the last eight years, Amanda Burden's Department of City Planning has rezoned 20 percent of New York along relatively transit-oriented lines, while simultaneously promoting quasi-suburban projects at prominent sites and maintaining parking minimums that erode the pedestrian environment. In other words, the planning department is promoting growth in the right places, but enabling the wrong kind of development. So in the next four years, will New York's planners adopt more sustainable practices or continue the status quo?

The Next New York: How the Planning Department Sabotages Sustainability

By Noah Kazis | Feb 19, 2010 | 18 Comments

The Argyle, a new arrival on Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue, is close to transit but cedes the ground floor to parking rather than retail or even a stoop. Parking requirements throughout New York compromise walkable development. Image: Brownstoner. This is the second installment in a three-part series on the reshaping of New York City and its […]

Mayor’s Office: Electric Cars Must Comply With PlaNYC Goal of Fewer Cars

By Noah Kazis | Feb 12, 2010 | 50 Comments

New York City is not looking to create infrastructure for charging cars on city streets. Image: theqsqueaks via Flickr. "Electric vehicles are here. They’re coming, and they won’t stop." Last night, DOT Deputy Commissioner Bruce Schaller opened a panel discussion on electric car adoption in New York City with an implicit message: We should be […]

NYC’s Rent-Stabilized Parking: A Hidden Subsidy to Drive

By Noah Kazis | Feb 10, 2010 | 22 Comments

Is this guy paying below-market rates to park? It’s possible. Photo: carspotter/Flickr. We say it a lot here on Streetsblog: cheap parking is bad policy. Without putting the right price on the scarce space that cars take up, people have more incentive to own and drive automobiles. In New York City, thanks to everything from […]

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