Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

Car-Sharing Instead of More Parking? LES Co-op Says: “Fantastic”

By Noah Kazis | Feb 1, 2010 | 13 Comments

Seward Park Houses has welcomed a small car-sharing program instead of clamoring for additional parking. Image: The Lo-Down. About 1,700 Lower East Side families live in Seward Park Houses. Located between East Broadway, Essex, and Grand Streets, street parking is scarce, and though the complex offers 400 parking spaces, there are 500 names on the […]

EDC Chief Seth Pinsky: Minimizing Parking “The Worst Thing We Could Do”

By Noah Kazis | Jan 29, 2010 | 27 Comments

Seth Pinsky, NYCEDC president. Image: NYCEDC. The NYC Economic Development Corporation’s predilection for suburban-style, parking-filled projects earned it last year’s Streetsie for worst city agency. Well, now we’ve got some more insight into what makes EDC tick. After an event at the New School last night, NYCEDC president Seth Pinsky told Streetsblog why his organization’s […]

Sustainable Streets Take a Hit in Bloomberg Budget Plan [Updated]

By Noah Kazis | Jan 29, 2010 | 2 Comments

Mayor Bloomberg released his budget proposal yesterday and, with a $4.93 billion deficit to deal with, there’s not much good news. Scanning the many gap-closing measures proposed for the Department of Transportation [start on page E-57 of this PDF], there are at least two significant developments for livable streets and sustainable transport — one bad […]

Smart Growth Leader Tells Planning Commission: NYC Can Do Better

By Noah Kazis | Jan 5, 2010 | 12 Comments

According to the Smart Growth Manual, "It is the planner’s role not to incentivize driving, but to create a transit and pedestrian experience that makes not driving a pleasure." New York may be the most transit-rich city in the nation, but that doesn’t mean big changes to the city’s planning policies aren’t necessary. That’s the […]

Easing the Park Slope Parking Crunch? There’s No App for That

By Brad Aaron | Jan 4, 2010 | 10 Comments

All About Fifth, the blog of Park Slope’s Fifth Avenue BID, posted a plug today for Roadify, one of several emerging applications that hope to help drivers find parking through the use of mobile devices. "Roadify is still in its infancy," reads AAF, "but any idea that will help to ease parking and traffic (caused […]

Police Academy 2: Starring a 3,000-Car Garage

By Ben Fried | Dec 21, 2009 | 14 Comments

Cadets will have a hard time getting to New York City’s next police academy, now under construction, without driving. Image: NYT/Michael Fieldman Architects and Perkins+Will. Last week brought another prime example of Bloomberg administration schizophrenia on urban sustainability. After his flight back from the Copenhagen climate summit, the mayor’s first stop was a former auto […]

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