Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about The Bronx

Eyes on the Street: Inside the Stadium

By Aaron Donovan | Sep 27, 2007 | 2 Comments

Here are snapshots of the scoreboard at Yankee Stadium last Sunday. (The Yanks beat Toronto, 7-5.) Despite the perceived parking hardship, average attendance at the stadium has been 52,739 this season, an all-time record. Naturally, this casts further doubt on the need for all those (all together now) publicly funded parking spaces — a project that has already caused actual […]

No Vote on Stadium Deal by Bronx Borough Board

By Brad Aaron | Sep 20, 2007 | 1 Comment

We wrote a couple weeks back that one of the problems with the new Yankee Stadium parking subsidy deal is that the Bronx Borough Board has yet to vote on it — perhaps because board members, along with the borough president himself, are still waiting for information on the project from the Industrial Development Agency. […]

City Hopes to Draw Constant Traffic to Subsidized Stadium Garages

By Brad Aaron | Sep 18, 2007 | 1 Comment

If you thought it was bad enough that the city seized public park land in the asthma-choked South Bronx, turned that public land over to the New York Yankees to use for parking, and is currently on course to have taxpayers subsidize said parking to the tune of $8,000 per space, well, you’d be […]

Meet Your Industrial Development Agency

By Brad Aaron | Sep 17, 2007 | 5 Comments

Last week, the board of the New York City Industrial Agency postponed a vote on whether to subsidize the construction of parking facilities at the new Yankee Stadium through the issuance of $225 million in triple tax exempt bonds. Streetsblog has no word yet on when the vote will occur, so in the meantime here […]

Vote Postponed on Yankees Parking Subsidy

By Brad Aaron | Sep 11, 2007 | 2 Comments

In an unusual move, the board of the New York City Industrial Development Agency (IDA) this morning postponed a vote on whether to issue tax-free bonds for parking facilities at the new Yankee Stadium. At a hearing last week, residents of the South Bronx, along with public advocates, protested the $225 million triple tax exempt […]

Nasty, Personal, Elitist and Not a Bronxite

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 10, 2007 | 25 Comments

PlaNYC identifies North Riverdale, a neighborhood represented by Bronx Assembly member Jeffrey Dinowitz, as one of 22 New York City neighborhoods with a higher than average concentration of Manhattan-bound drivers. (Download the transportation section, page 86) Bronx Assembly member Jeffrey Dinowitz wasn’t happy with Streetsblog’s presentation of his Riverdale Press editorial against congestion pricing last […]

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