Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Development

No Vote on Stadium Deal by Bronx Borough Board

By Brad Aaron | Sep 20, 2007 | 1 Comment

We wrote a couple weeks back that one of the problems with the new Yankee Stadium parking subsidy deal is that the Bronx Borough Board has yet to vote on it — perhaps because board members, along with the borough president himself, are still waiting for information on the project from the Industrial Development Agency. […]

City Hopes to Draw Constant Traffic to Subsidized Stadium Garages

By Brad Aaron | Sep 18, 2007 | 1 Comment

If you thought it was bad enough that the city seized public park land in the asthma-choked South Bronx, turned that public land over to the New York Yankees to use for parking, and is currently on course to have taxpayers subsidize said parking to the tune of $8,000 per space, well, you’d be […]

Meet Your Industrial Development Agency

By Brad Aaron | Sep 17, 2007 | 5 Comments

Last week, the board of the New York City Industrial Agency postponed a vote on whether to subsidize the construction of parking facilities at the new Yankee Stadium through the issuance of $225 million in triple tax exempt bonds. Streetsblog has no word yet on when the vote will occur, so in the meantime here […]

Does New York Need a ‘New Moses’?

By Brad Aaron | Sep 13, 2007 | 24 Comments

Okay, so the question comprising the title of this post sounds naive enough to border on rhetorical. But in light of the city’s current development climate, it takes a stronger resolve than mine to read "Power Broken," by NYU’s Thomas Bender, without wondering which side of the fence to come down on. Published in the latest edition of […]

World Cities Adding One Million People Every Week

By Jason Varone | Sep 13, 2007 | 2 Comments

Syndicated columnist Neal Peirce asks whether our planet will be able to absorb the population "mega-surge" currently underway in Africa, Asia and Latin America. From Common Dreams: The problem is that the global population base has increased so radically that even seemingly modest birthrates can have momentous consequences. Joel Cohen (head of the Laboratory of […]

Garages Yield to Human-Oriented Development

By Brad Aaron | Sep 13, 2007 | 4 Comments

The Sun reported recently that Midtown parking garage owners are finding there are more valuable uses for their property than auto storage. Later this month, the final bids are due for the sales of six prime Midtown Manhattan parking garages comprising a portion of the Central Parking New York City portfolio. Located between 37th and […]

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