Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking

A summer weekend in New York's richest neighborhoods means empty streets. So why should we care what car owners think is just?

New York is Really Awesome When the Rich People Leave and Take their Cars on Vacation

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jul 5, 2019 | 100 Comments

Car owners are an entitled, selfish class of moochers — and it's time to stop catering to them by worrying about where they park their cars.

This same temporary New Jersey license plate is rotated among multiple cars — a scam by car dealers to avoid parking tickets or seizure as derelict cars. Photos: Ben Verde

Paper Plates from Jersey Make Scamming NYC Easy!

By Ben Verde | Jun 21, 2019 | 22 Comments

Car dealerships in upper Manhattan are taking parking theft to a new level of scam.

An overload of pedestrians on Eighth Avenue. Photo: DOT

Eighth Avenue To Get a Road Diet to Give More Space to Walkers, Cyclists

By Melodie Bryant | Jun 21, 2019 | 45 Comments

The city is proposing a sweeping transformation between 38th and 45th streets that will reduce car lanes by 20 feet, extend a northbound protected bike lane that currently ends at 39th Street, and widen, by 10 feet, the overcrowded sidewalk from 39th to 41st streets.

This used to be a highway — for cars. Now it's a well-used bike path. Photo: Clarence Eckerson Jr.

Cycle of Rage: New Streetfilms Doc Shows New York’s Bike Infrastructure Is Ultimately a Joke

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jun 20, 2019 | 19 Comments

Watch the latest Streetfilms documentary by Clarence Eckerson Jr. and you will realize that all we get are tiny improvements, at best, from Mayor de Blasio.

This sign now greets cyclists as they simply try to get from Downtown Brooklyn to DUMBO. Photo: Daniel Hopkins

UNBELIEVABLE! DOT Adds Parking to Car-Choked DUMBO

By Daniel Hopkins | Jun 14, 2019 | 32 Comments

Pedestrian-packed and car-clogged Washington Street in Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood has been converted to a one-way between Front and York streets — a change spurred by a two-year effort by a neighborhood resident that will actually add more cars and more danger to the roadway.

Community Board 7 made a strong move to help make sure more ghost bikes, like this one made for Madison Lyden, won't be necessary. Photo: David Meyer

CPW Gets Protected Bike Lane (Yay!) And Loses 400 Parking Spaces (Yay!)

By Eve Kessler | Jun 12, 2019 | 48 Comments

It’s a pretty sizable win in the ongoing war against cars.

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