Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Development

Times Square: Too Many People, or Just Too Many Cars?

By Brad Aaron | Jan 10, 2008 | 14 Comments

Why is Times Square so crowded? An article in yesterday’s New York Times considered that question, asking real estate brokers if businesses might be shying away from the area due to packed streets and sidewalks. According to a survey cited in the article, 68 percent of Times Square office workers say congestion is the top […]

Bronxites Pick Parking Over People

By Brad Aaron | Jan 8, 2008 | No Comments

Residents of the Zerega Avenue section of the Bronx are upset that beds for the sick will be putting a crimp in neighborhood parking stock. The Bronx Times reports that a new four-story building on the corner of Herschell Street and Westchester Avenue, with apartments and a ground-floor medical facility, will be exempt from parking […]

New York Times Employees Say Renzo Forgot the Bike Parking

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 6, 2007 | 52 Comments

When Ray Bengen learned that he was going to start work at the New York Times new Eighth Avenue office tower back in July as a software engineering consultant he thought, "Great. It’s just up the street from where I live. I can ride my bike to work." There was just one problem. While the […]

Carrion Gets $30K Donation Following Yanks Walkway Deal

By Brad Aaron | Nov 29, 2007 | 1 Comment

The Village Voice is reporting that Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion received $30,000 in campaign contributions from a firm that scored a $5 million air rights agreement for a pedestrian bridge to the new Yankee Stadium. Last summer the city agreed to pay $5 million to construct part of a pedestrian walkway to the new […]

Big Builders Explain Why Congestion Pricing is Important

By Jason Varone | Nov 8, 2007 | 4 Comments

In a letter to Marc Shaw, Chairman of the New York City Traffic Mitigation Commission, the New York Building Congress urged the Commission to support a congestion pricing plan that dedicates all revenues to capital improvements for the city’s transit system. The NYBC also indicated their support for the MTA’s propsed fare hike "as merely […]

State Opposes City Plan for Hell’s Kitchen Parking

By Brad Aaron | Oct 24, 2007 | 9 Comments

In June we reported on the city’s effort to bring some 20,000 additional parking spaces to the Hudson Yards area on the far West Side, via a rezoning provision adopted in 2005. Though it’s a remnant of the failed stadium plan, the Bloomberg administration nonetheless intends to hold on the parking component, going so far […]

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