Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Yankee Stadium Parking Scandal

NYCEDC’s Yankee Stadium Parking Debacle: Who Woulda Thought?

By Brad Aaron | Mar 15, 2011 | 20 Comments

In news that should surprise no one, the taxpayer-financed Yankee Stadium parking garages have been declared an unmitigated disaster. Anyone could have seen the deal was a loser from the start — that a sports stadium served by subways, buses and a new commuter rail station, a stadium that would have fewer seats for fans, […]

Yankee Stadium Parking Boondoggle Getting Worse Every Day

By Ben Fried | Jun 16, 2010 | 9 Comments

The subsidy for the new Yankee Stadium’s 9,000 parking spaces keeps turning into a worse deal for New York City taxpayers. Juan Gonzalez reports in the Daily News that the garage operator is deep in the red, even after last year’s extended championship season: As of this month, Bronx Parking Development LLC owes the city […]

Pro-Parking Policies Will Sully the Legacy of PlaNYC

By Brad Aaron | Apr 27, 2009 | 6 Comments

Photo: Getty via Daily Intel Former Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff, widely credited as the architect of PlaNYC, spoke at the Museum of the City of New York last week on the potential impact of Mayor Bloomberg’s signature program. According to City Room, Doctoroff considers the two-year-old environmental blueprint on par with such grand projects as […]

City Traded Parking Spots for Yankee Stadium Suite

By Brad Aaron | Dec 1, 2008 | 5 Comments

Not that we need more evidence that the Yankee Stadium parking deal was rancid to the core, but a Saturday story in the Times reveals the sad details of the Bloomberg administration’s push for luxury game day digs — a 12-seat suite in left field — for which it traded 250 spots to the team. […]

South Bronx Develops Into Yankee Stadium Parking Lot

By Brad Aaron | Jan 16, 2008 | 16 Comments

Yesterday’s City Limits article on Yankee Stadium parking contains a link to an interactive Google map, developed by author Mathilde Piard, of the stadium site and its surroundings. Users can click on the shaded areas for descriptions of each parking garage or surface lot, including how many cars it can hold and when it will […]

Will the Tide Turn on City Parking Policy?

By Brad Aaron | Jan 15, 2008 | 8 Comments

A few weeks back Atlantic Yards Report posted a compendium of recent writings that point to the contradictions inherent in, and problems resulting from, parking requirements for urban development plans. Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s much-praised PlaNYC 2030 contains a glaring omission, a failure to address the antiquated anti-urban policy that mandates parking attached to new residential […]

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