Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Development

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 […]

Brooklyn CB 1, CM Levin, Beep All Demand Less Parking at New Domino

By Noah Kazis | Apr 30, 2010 | 10 Comments

In an unusual turn of events, two Brooklyn politicians and one community board are pushing for less off-street parking at the New Domino development proposed for the Williamsburg waterfront. City Council Member Steve Levin and Borough President Marty Markowitz have recently bolstered a resolution from CB 1 calling for hundreds of fewer parking spaces. A […]

RPA Panel: Walkable Urbanism Key to NYC’s Housing Policy

By Noah Kazis | Apr 20, 2010 | 9 Comments

NYCHA plans to restore 129th Street at St. Nicholas Houses (which would chop this superblock across the middle), part of an effort to integrate good neighborhood design with housing policy. Image: Google Earth. The key to building better and more affordable housing in New York City is that oft-cited but elusive quality: urbanism. So said […]

At Flushing Commons, NYCEDC’s Fuzzy Math Superceded PlaNYC Goals

By Noah Kazis | Mar 16, 2010 | 45 Comments

Yesterday, Streetsblog looked at Flushing Commons, a mixed-use development in the heart of transit-rich downtown Flushing, where the New York City Economic Development Corporation has mandated suburban levels of parking. We asked the EDC why they required nearly 1,600 spaces in the development, and now we have an answer. It’s a revealing look at how […]

Parking Overkill in Flushing: NYCEDC Made It Happen

By Noah Kazis | Mar 15, 2010 | 34 Comments

It’s not every day that a New York City real estate executive name-checks Donald Shoup, but one developer admiringly referred to the dean of progressive parking policy while explaining his project to Streetsblog. If not for the New York City Economic Development Corporation and mis-directed political pressures, says TDC Development President Michael Meyer, the huge mixed-use […]

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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