Parking
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FDNY To Drivers: Please Stop Parking At Hydrants
Parking scofflaws turn a fire fatal. The public could help, if the Council would pass a bill creating citizen enforcement.
February 11, 2025
Tributes Pour in for Parking Reformer, Urbanist Mentor Donald Shoup
Shoup had a long and storied career in the academy, but he was also a mentor to generations of urban planners.
February 9, 2025
Death of a Legend: Donald Shoup, Parking Reformer
The OG of understanding how "free parking" isn't free has died.
February 8, 2025
Council Members Want To Be Notified When City Repurposes ‘Their’ Parking
Why can't we have nice things? Because the Council wants DOT to issue more notifications whenever parking is affected.
December 18, 2024
Pizzeria Deploys School Bus to Serve Customers During Winter Curbside Dining Ban
So let's get this straight: You can eat a slice of pizza in a car ... as long as the car doesn't belong to the pizzeria?
December 11, 2024
Adams Considering Letting Midtown Business Group Issue Parking Tickets So NYPD Can Tackle ‘More Serious Issues’
The Department of Finance retracted its proposal to allow the 34th Street Partnership to be the first business improvement district empowered to enforce city parking rules after we started asking about it.
December 5, 2024
Cars Still Get in the Way of Containerized Trash Pickup
The Sanitation Department beat the rats, but its workers still have to take on parked cars.
December 2, 2024
As Congestion Pricing Passes, Suburban Naysayer on MTA Board Again Abuses His Placard
David Mack hates congestion pricing — but he loves complaining about people who park illegally (even as he parks illegally).
November 18, 2024
Want Parking? Kiss Goodbye Half of the Projected Housing in ‘City Of Yes’
Analysis: Modifications the mayor's City of Yes housing plan will result in less housing, experts say.
November 7, 2024
Poll: A Few Wealthy Loudmouths Want to Keep Mandatory Parking
Seventy-four percent of New York City voters support Mayor Adams's plan to eliminate minimum parking requirements for new housing developments, according to a new poll.
October 21, 2024
