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Replacement For Yankee Stadium Parking Will Still Have to Pay The Bills
As the operator of the taxpayer-financed Yankee Stadium parking garages heads toward default, there's no longer any question that providing so much parking in such a transit-rich location was a mistake on the scale of Carl Pavano's contract. The decision to give up $2.5 million in city taxes and $5 million in state revenue has proven a poor investment indeed. The question, at this point, is what comes next.
March 17, 2011
Parking Requirements Force Affordable Housing Project to Shrink
Parking minimums continue to stymie the creation of affordable housing in New York City, according to an architect who frequently designs those projects. When a rezoning suddenly put parking minimums in effect for an affordable housing project in the Bronx, Richard Ferrara of DeLaCour & Ferrara Architects was forced to cut apartments out of the building.
February 24, 2011
Parking Minimums Make NYC Housing More Expensive, NYU Report Finds
You don't need Jimmy McMillan to tell you that housing in New York is expensive. But figuring out why the rent is so damn high, and what to do about it, is a knotty policy question.
February 11, 2011
Questions Remain for Hunter’s Point South Transpo Plan
This morning, the Bloomberg Administration announced the developer for the first phase of Hunter's Point South, a Long Island City project the city is billing as the largest middle-class housing project since Co-Op City and Starrett City went up in the 1970s. A team led by the Related Companies will be developing the first 900 units at what will eventually be a 5,000-unit complex along the East River.
February 9, 2011
For Fifth Ave BID Leader, Parking’s the Whole Point of New South Slope Hotel
There's a lot not to like about parking in New York City. It deadens urban space. It drives up the cost of housing and doing business. And it's a powerful generator of traffic and congestion.
January 25, 2011
In Great Wal-Mart Debate, Will City Council Question Big-Box Development?
Here comes Wal-Mart.
January 12, 2011
City Council Jacks Riverside Center Parking Supply Back Up to 1,500 Spaces
Council Member Gale Brewer has struck a deal on the Riverside Center mega-development, sending the 2,500-apartment project through two City Council committees and on a track to final approval. The deal increases the number of parking spaces allowed at Riverside Center to 1,500, far more than the community board or even the City Planning Commission had approved.
December 9, 2010
Did City Planning Approve 430 Extra Parking Spaces at Riverside Center?
Even by its own math, the City Planning Commission seems to have approved 430 parking spots too many at Riverside Center, the new development slated to straddle 60th Street on the far West Side.
November 16, 2010
Gale Brewer Pessimistic About Further Riverside Center Parking Reductions
Now that the City Planning Commission has called for 1,260 parking spaces at the Riverside Center development -- instead of the 1,800 requested by the developer -- the project moves on to the City Council for the final step of the city's land use process. Traditionally, the local Council member representing the district is given a lot of deference by her peers, so we checked in with West Side representative Gale Brewer to see whether she'd be pushing for a further reduction in the number of spaces.
November 8, 2010
City Planning Okays 1,260 Parking Spaces for Riverside Center
We got our hands on a copy of the City Planning Commission's report on the Riverside Center mega-development [PDF], and as we reported last week, the commission is allowing Extell Development to construct 1,260 parking spaces under two Upper West Side blocks. It's possible that the number of parking spaces could drop lower when the public review reaches the City Council, where local representative Gale Brewer has said she favors 1,100 parking spaces.
November 3, 2010