Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking Placards

New York City’s Opinion-Makers Turn Attention to Traffic

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 13, 2006 | 13 Comments

Today’s Times Select, a subscriber-only web site, has published a lengthy manifesto on New York City traffic and transportation by Carolyn Curiel. It urges Mayor Bloomberg to listen to the ideas being generated by the Citywide Coalition for Traffic Relief, and suggests that his legacy depends on it. Increasingly, one gets the sense that the […]

Daily News Busts Govt Employee Valet Parking Racket

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 8, 2006 | No Comments

Triple-parked cars of government employees in front of the "The Tombs" in Lower Manhattan State Court officials have turned Mulberry Street in Chinatown into their own private parking lot, valet service included. Today’s Daily News has a great article on the scam. Every morning two uniformed State Court officers block off the street with orange traffic […]

Film Scout Parking Permits Rescinded

By Aaron Donovan | Jul 13, 2006 | 3 Comments

The other night in the Financial District, the buildings of Trinity Place were lit-up all noir-like, and light illuminated the steam temporarily wafting skyward from an orange stack. The lighting set up a visual image of a comic book, larger-than-life metropolis that will appear in Spiderman III. I enjoyed watching a take or two of traffic on the streets as […]

The $46 Million Parking Perk

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 16, 2006 | 11 Comments

The police tow one of their own in Chinatown on May 10, 2006. Community and business groups say that much of Lower Manhattan has become a free parking lot for government employees’ personal vehicles. (Photo: Geoff Lee) Illegally parked government employees are subtracting $46 million a year in potential parking fees from New York City’s coffers, according to […]

Parking Squat: Kind of silly and yet…

By Aaron Naparstek | May 17, 2006 | 5 Comments

Boy, the parking squat post really seems to have hit a nerve in the comments section. In some ways, it is not surprising. Working and writing on these issues for a few years now I have found that New Yorkers are increasingly supportive of the idea of creating better pedestrian, cycling and bus facilities. Yet, […]

Patriots Park on Sidewalks

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 11, 2006 | 2 Comments

Oil Drum points to a recent spike in motorist insanity on Staten Island this week: A retired Port Authority cop out with his wife, pulls in to a strip mall to pick up some Chinese food. An ex-NYPD detective jumps out of his car and guns the guy down in a barrage of 17 bullets. […]

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