Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Manhattan

There’s No Such Thing as “Free Parking”

By Aaron Naparstek | Mar 1, 2007 | 20 Comments

Free parking, it turns out, isn’t free. A new study by transportation guru Bruce Schaller finds that free parking in Manhattan’s Central Business district is responsible for a significant amount of New York City’s staggering traffic congestion. Schaller’s new study, Congested Streets: The Skewed Economic Incentives to Drive Into Manhattan (PDF), finds that free parking […]

City Council Passes New Pedicab Regulations

By Jason Varone | Mar 1, 2007 | 8 Comments

Reported in the New York Times: Chad Marlow, who represents the New York City Pedicab Owners Association, said the association agrees with much of the legislation, but plans to file a lawsuit challenging some elements of it. He said it believes that the Council was within its rights to impose a cap as the city […]

City Council Set To Vote on Pedicabs Today

By Jason Varone | Feb 28, 2007 | 7 Comments

onNYTurf reports: What started as a very positive process to bring much desired regulation to the growing pedicab industry has been completely turned on its head, and this afternoon city council is scheduled to vote on a bill that has become so twisted that the bill’s sponsor and a co-sponsor have taken their names off […]

3 Peds Hit on 9th Ave. 2 Dead. Mayor Mike: Where Are You?

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 26, 2007 | 5 Comments

Like Third Avenue in Brooklyn, Manhattan’s Ninth Avenue is emerging as one of New York City’s new "Boulevards of Death." This afternoon, the Clinton / Hell’s Kitchen Pedestrian Safety Coalition, the community group that has been organizing the Ninth Avenue Renaissance project, broadcast the following news and call to action: Dear Neighbors Seventy-five percent of […]

NYC on Alert for Motor Vehicle-Based “Noise Terrorism”

By Jason Varone | Feb 26, 2007 | 4 Comments

Speaking of automobile advertiser shamelessness, check out the marketing campaign that, reportedly, rolled through the Lower East Side last night at around 3:00 a.m. courtesy of Microsoft and Toyota: According to reports from residents in Lower Manhattan, a California-tagged, Zune-branded SUV rolled through Ludlow Street during the "wee hours of February 25th," but rather than […]

Illegal Permit Parking Crackdown Underway?

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 21, 2007 | 13 Comments

Word has it that the city is finally cracking down on uncivil servants’ illegal parking privileges. Was this the final outrage that finally spurred the Bloomberg Administration to take action? A Manhattan tipster reports that a jersey barrier has suddenly appeared in front of the Brooklyn Bridge on-ramp where scores of Police Plaza employees […]

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