Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Development

De Blasio Team Gradually Beefing Up Its Parking Reform Proposals

By Stephen Miller | Feb 24, 2015 | 20 Comments

New York is one step closer to overhauling a discredited policy that drives up the cost of housing and makes traffic congestion worse, but the scope of the reforms the de Blasio administration is pursuing remains limited. Last week, the Department of City Planning came out with the broad strokes of a major update to […]

Bus Rapid Transit, Not Ferry Subsidies, Would Help Struggling New Yorkers

By Stephen Miller | Feb 3, 2015 | 34 Comments

In today’s State of the City address, Mayor de Blasio returned to his signature campaign issues of affordability and equity. Focusing mainly on housing, the mayor outlined a plan for growth centered around transit-accessible neighborhoods, and he recommitted to building several new Bus Rapid Transit routes. But de Blasio missed the mark with his big new transit initiative […]

Attention EDC: Big Development Projects Don’t Need Parking After All

By Stephen Miller | Jan 28, 2015 | 52 Comments

During the Bloomberg administration, city officials spearheading a giant Lower East Side mixed-use development larded it up with parking above and beyond what’s normally allowed in Manhattan. Now, the company in charge of building the project says it’s going to go parking-free, and is hosting a public meeting on its plan tonight. This could be […]

Livable Streets or Tall Buildings? Cities Can Have Both

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 6, 2014 | No Comments

Kaid Benfield’s new blog post on density is getting a lot of buzz over at NRDC’s Switchboard blog. Benfield, a planner/lawyer/professor/writer who co-founded both LEED’s Neighborhood Development rating system and the Smart Growth America coalition, has some serious street cred when it comes to these matters. And on this one, he’s with Danish architect Jan Gehl, […]

Are There Any Affordable Cities Left in America?

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 27, 2014 | No Comments

Are Washington, San Francisco, and New York the most affordable American cities? A new report from the New York-based Citizen’s Budget Commission [PDF], which made the rounds at the Washington Post and CityLab, argues that if you consider the combined costs of housing and transportation, the answer is yes. But a closer look at the data casts […]

Chin Urges Council Colleagues to Turn Parking Into Affordable Housing

By Stephen Miller | Aug 4, 2014 | 27 Comments

Last month, Manhattan City Council Member Margaret Chin asked the de Blasio administration to prioritize affordable housing over car storage by replacing a city-owned parking garage in her district with new apartments. Acknowledging that the decision might be politically difficult, last week Chin urged her City Council colleagues to follow her lead if they want to tackle […]

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