Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Department of City Planning

Did City Planning Approve 430 Extra Parking Spaces at Riverside Center?

By Noah Kazis | Nov 16, 2010 | 3 Comments

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. Last month the commission approved 1,260 parking spots for the project, 430 of which are intended to replace some of the […]

City Planning Okays 1,260 Parking Spaces for Riverside Center

By Noah Kazis | Nov 3, 2010 | 1 Comment

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 […]

Zero Parking Means More Affordable Housing for Fort Greene

By Noah Kazis | Oct 26, 2010 | 23 Comments

Last month, builders broke ground on Fort Greene’s Navy Green project, which, when completed, will add 458 homes between the Navy Yard and the BQE. A full three-quarters of the project will be affordable to families earning between 30 and 130 percent of the area median income, and 97 of those residences will be supportive […]

Applications for Special Parking Permits Keep Rolling in to City Planning

By Noah Kazis | Oct 26, 2010 | 7 Comments

With two days until the City Planning Commission votes on the parking-heavy Riverside Center mega-project, the commissioners had a chance yesterday to ask any final questions about the project before the vote. As it happened, they didn’t bring up parking at that section of the meeting, but parking was a hot topic elsewhere on the […]

City Planning Ready to Approve 1,260 Parking Spaces at Riverside Center

By Noah Kazis | Oct 25, 2010 | 6 Comments

The City Planning Commission is likely to approve a 1,260-space garage for the Riverside Center mega-development at its meeting this Wednesday, according to multiple sources. That’s space for hundreds more cars — causing more congestion and more pollution — than requested by the Upper West Side’s representatives. It’s yet another case where the commission and […]

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