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Wednesday: CB4 Needs to Hear From Eighth Avenue Cycle Track Supporters
The transportation committee of Manhattan Community Board 4 will host a public meeting Wednesday night regarding DOT plans for a
protected bike lane on Eighth Avenue from W. 14th to W.
23rd Street.
November 18, 2008
CHEKPEDS: Check Up on Far West Side Proposals Tonight
The Clinton Hell’s Kitchen Coalition for Pedestrian Safety (CHEKPEDS) has issued an alert regarding a meeting tonight to review Hudson Yards boulevard and park design proposals.
September 22, 2008
TSTC Issues Lincoln Tunnel Emancipation Proclamation
When it comes to reducing traffic in New York City, improving transit performance over river crossings is a no-brainer. Faster buses lure people out of their cars and take traffic off the streets, which is why the Tri-State Transportation Campaign is advocating for a New Jersey-bound express bus lane through the Lincoln Tunnel.
September 17, 2008
City Council Signs Off on 400-Car Garage in Hell’s Kitchen
Last week, the New York City Council approved a special permit granting developer Glenwood Management the right to build a 400-car parking garage at 310-328 West 38th Street. The decision was not unexpected, as the permit had already been approved by the City Planning Commission earlier this month.
June 30, 2008
City Planning Commission Approves 400-Car Garage for Hell’s Kitchen
Two weeks ago Streetsblog reported on the glut of public parking garages being built in Hell's Kitchen, which threatens to worsen traffic conditions in one of New York's most congested neighborhoods. The City Planning Commission could have set a precedent last Friday by denying a developer's request to build a 400-car public garage as part of a mixed-use project at 310-328 West 38th Street. Only 232 parking spaces would have been allowed without the special permit.
June 12, 2008
Hell’s Parking Lot
If there's one thing a neighborhood overrun by traffic doesn't need, it's more public parking garages. But that's exactly what New Yorkers who live by the mouth of the Lincoln Tunnel will get if the City Planning Commission allows current development patterns to continue.
May 30, 2008
Will the Tide Turn on City Parking Policy?
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.
January 15, 2008
Hell’s Kitchen Parking Plan Continues to Confound
The Daily News has picked up on the city's court battle to bring some 20,000 new parking spaces to the far West Side, a plan that -- along with at least one or two other notorious examples -- is directly at odds with the Bloomberg administration's ambitious environmental agenda.
November 6, 2007
State Opposes City Plan for Hell’s Kitchen Parking
In June we reported on the city's effort to bring some 20,000 additional parking spaces to the Hudson Yards area on the far West Side, via a rezoning provision adopted in 2005. Though it's a remnant of the failed stadium plan, the Bloomberg administration nonetheless intends to hold on the parking component, going so far as to defend itself against a related lawsuit by claiming that the city's carbon monoxide levels are declining. (Not surprisingly, neighborhood folk aren't taking the city's word for it.)
October 24, 2007