Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Department of City Planning

At First Riverside Center Hearing, Planning Commission Quiet on Parking

By Noah Kazis | May 25, 2010 | No Comments

On the west side of Manhattan, Extell Development is proposing to build two levels of below-ground parking, each covering most of the two-block footprint of the Riverside Center site. Image: Extell Development [PDF] The City Planning Commission certified Extell Development’s parking-filled Riverside Center proposal yesterday afternoon, setting in motion the city’s land use review process. […]

Will Robert Lieber’s Successor Finally Fill the Gaps in PlaNYC 2030?

By Noah Kazis | May 19, 2010 | 4 Comments

NYC Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Robert Lieber. Photo: New York Daily News City Hall has another big vacancy to fill. This morning the Bloomberg administration announced that Robert Lieber, deputy mayor for economic development, is returning to the private sector. Lieber’s portfolio includes the New York City Economic Development Corporation and the Department of […]

Advocates: New Parking Requirements Make Housing More Expensive

By Noah Kazis | May 6, 2010 | 9 Comments

Reforming New York City parking policy is a critical component of reducing automobile use and building better public spaces. It’s becoming increasingly clear that rethinking how we store cars can help address New York City’s housing crisis as well. Requiring parking not only creates traffic, it also prevents housing from being built and drives up […]

Hard Cap on Hudson Yards Parking Takes Effect. Will More Reforms Follow?

By Noah Kazis and Ben Fried | Apr 22, 2010 | 8 Comments

The Hudson Yards district on the Far West Side of Manhattan now has limits on off-street parking. Image: hotdogger13 via Flickr. Strict limits on the number of parking spaces that can be built on the far West Side of Manhattan are now in force, a year after the city settled a lawsuit over the issue […]

City Planning Can Set the Bar Higher on Fourth Avenue

By Ben Fried | Mar 10, 2010 | 9 Comments

Well over a hundred people filled the auditorium of the Saint Thomas Aquinas Church last week for a forum on the future of Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue put on by the Park Slope Civic Council. The stretch of Fourth Avenue on the western edge of Park Slope saw a wave of residential construction after a 2003 […]

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