Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Development

Developer: I’ve Walked Away From Projects Because of Parking Minimums

By Noah Kazis | Apr 28, 2011 | 61 Comments

Housing is harder to build, more expensive, and often lower-quality as a result of the city’s parking regulations, according to one New York City developer. Alan Bell was a high-ranking housing official in the Koch administration before co-founding the Hudson Companies in 1986. Since then, Hudson has built 4,250 affordable and market-rate housing units in […]

Washington Heights Towers Would Add 500+ Parking Spots on Top of 1 Train

By Brad Aaron | Apr 8, 2011 | 22 Comments

Since January, Upper Manhattan has been abuzz with news of a proposed development that could bring four new residential towers to Washington Heights. And according to developers Quadriad Realty Partners, there’ll be ample parking to go along with them. The Quadriad buildings, which would be constructed on both sides of Broadway at 190th Street, would […]

Replacement For Yankee Stadium Parking Will Still Have to Pay The Bills

By Noah Kazis | Mar 17, 2011 | 16 Comments

As the operator of the taxpayer-financed Yankee Stadium parking garages heads toward default, there’s no longer any question that providing so much parking in such a transit-rich location was a mistake on the scale of Carl Pavano’s contract. The decision to give up $2.5 million in city taxes and $5 million in state revenue has […]

Parking Requirements Force Affordable Housing Project to Shrink

By Noah Kazis | Feb 24, 2011 | 10 Comments

Parking minimums continue to stymie the creation of affordable housing in New York City, according to an architect who frequently designs those projects. When a rezoning suddenly put parking minimums in effect for an affordable housing project in the Bronx, Richard Ferrara of DeLaCour & Ferrara Architects was forced to cut apartments out of the building. […]

Parking Minimums Make NYC Housing More Expensive, NYU Report Finds

By Noah Kazis | Feb 11, 2011 | 13 Comments

You don’t need Jimmy McMillan to tell you that housing in New York is expensive. But figuring out why the rent is so damn high, and what to do about it, is a knotty policy question. Thanks to new research from NYU’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, one underlying reason for the […]

Questions Remain for Hunter’s Point South Transpo Plan

By Noah Kazis | Feb 9, 2011 | 6 Comments

This morning, the Bloomberg Administration announced the developer for the first phase of Hunter’s Point South, a Long Island City project the city is billing as the largest middle-class housing project since Co-Op City and Starrett City went up in the 1970s. A team led by the Related Companies will be developing the first 900 […]

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