Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parks

More Park(ing) Day Photos

By Brad Aaron | Sep 21, 2007 | 4 Comments

Park(Day) co-organizer Jen Petersen and Robert Cipriano lounge at No Impact Man‘s spot in front of Whole Foods at 7th Ave. and W. 24th St. Project for Public Spaces and Open Planning Project set up at Third Ave. and St. Marks. NYU students planted a garden in this parking space at E. 9th and Stuyvesant. […]

Myrtle Ave. Parking Spot Becomes a Park and Classroom

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 21, 2007 | 5 Comments

The first round of Park(ing) Day photos are coming in. Here is a public space reclamation project currently underway on Myrtle Avenue in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. Blaise Backer, executive director of the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership explains: A Pratt Institute Industrial Design class is holding class in the space from 9:30 to 12:30, getting feedback […]

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. […]

Officers Stopping Cyclists in Central Park

By Brad Aaron | Sep 19, 2007 | 28 Comments

From Streetsblog commenter Steve: Project "Look" may include new programmatic law enforcement efforts targeting bicyclists. Each morning this week we were confronted by a Parks & Rec. Department law enforcement personnel operating checkpoints at different locations on the Central Park Loop. Today’s checkpoint was different than the previous two. There were two serial checkpoints, […]

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 […]

Last Day for High Bridge Survey

By Brad Aaron | Sep 7, 2007 | 6 Comments

In addition to the subway, the Metro-North, and the ferry, baseball spectators should have another non-auto option to get to the new Yankee Stadium: a restored car-free High Bridge. The High Bridge merits attention today not only due to the current parking controversy, but also because it’s the last day of the Parks Department’s online survey. As noted previously, two […]

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