Parking
Streetsblog Basics
NYC Parking Requirements Make More Traffic, New Research Confirms
Evidence continues to mount that New York City's mandatory parking minimums encourage people to drive.
February 28, 2012
Report: Pollution From U.S. Parking Spaces Costs Up to $20 Billion Per Year
Parking spaces keep getting more costly.
February 23, 2012
Nashville Scrapped Parking Minimums Downtown. Why Can’t Brooklyn?
Want to understand just how twisted the politics of parking are in New York City? Take a look at Nashville, Tennessee.
February 22, 2012
Q Poll: Chris Quinn’s Parking Agenda Out of Touch With New Yorkers
To hear Christine Quinn tell it, New Yorkers are crying out for relief from unjust parking policies. Over the last two years, it seems that when City Council members weren't flogging legislation to add layers of bureaucracy to DOT's street safety program, they were tripping over themselves to absolve motorists of one responsibility after another.
February 9, 2012
Eyes on the Street: Next-Gen No Standing Signs in Inwood
The city recently replaced four parking spots at Park Terrace West and W. 218th Street, in Inwood, with a no standing zone. The 34th Precinct reportedly requested the change to give drivers exiting Park Terrace West, a northbound one-way street, a better view of east-west traffic on 218th.
February 6, 2012
The House That EDC Built: A 9,000-Car Complex With 8,930 Empty Spaces
In case you're just tuning in, all that taxpayer-subsidized parking built for the new Yankee Stadium has failed beyond anyone's wildest expectations.
February 3, 2012
City Planning Commission OKs Excess St. Vincent’s Parking
The City Planning Commission approved a Rudin family request to build 50 percent more parking than allowed at the site of the former St. Vincent's Hospital in Greenwich Village. The commission's unanimous approval came last Monday despite opposition to the parking garage from the local community board and evidence that Rudin hadn't met the city's own requirements for granting exemptions to parking maximums.
January 26, 2012
Quinn’s Parking Agenda Gives Nothing to the 54 Percent Who Don’t Own Cars
On Monday we published the revised schedule for this week's City Council hearing in James Vacca's transportation committee. Out with oversight of the MTA budget and its consequences for straphangers, in with bills to make parking more convenient. Maybe we were being a little unfair with that post, because the person who ultimately sets the agenda for the City Council isn't Vacca, but Speaker Christine Quinn.
January 19, 2012
City Tests Out Parking Sensors, But So Far Just For Space-Finding App
New York City took a significant step today toward modernizing the way it allocates scarce curbside parking spaces, but it remains to be seen whether the city will embrace the full potential its new parking tech.
January 18, 2012
Another Year, Another David Greenfield Parking Bill
The City Council is again looking to placate scofflaw drivers. This time, Council Member David Greenfield of Brooklyn wants to limit cases in which the city can tow vehicles belonging to drivers who have racked up hundreds of dollars in unpaid parking fines. DNAinfo has the story:
January 12, 2012