Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Chinatown

Chinatown Business Group Proposes Car-Free Streets

By Aaron Naparstek | | 7 Comments
Bayard Street, Chinatown. Photo: SkyShaper AM New York reports on a "radical" proposal to open two narrow Chinatown streets, Mott and Bayard, to pedestrians, shoppers and diners: Imagine car-free Chinatown streets full of alfresco dining and sidewalk tea shops instead of today’s mess of double-parked cars, delivery trucks and idling buses. That’s the radical proposal […]

Daily News Busts Govt Employee Valet Parking Racket

By Aaron Naparstek | | 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 […]

The $46 Million Parking Perk

By Aaron Naparstek | | 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 […]

Patriots Park on Sidewalks

By Aaron Naparstek | | 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. […]