Why Does This Building by the Subway Need 193 Parking Spots? (Yes, Exactly 193.)
www.nytimes.com
New York and cities across the country reconsider decades-old parking rules.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14458913

In New York and elsewhere, the rules typically take the form of ratios [of parking spaces to retail and housing] that have been copied from one city to another, handed from one generation of engineers to the next without much study or skepticism.

  • EleventhHour
    7•1 month ago

    That’s right by the Bedford-Northstrand G train stop in Bed-Stuy. That’s my old neighborhood. There is absolutely no need for those parking spaces there. Few people in that neighborhood own cars in the first place.

    The only other buildings in the area that even have any parking spaces at all are the housing projects like Tompkins house and Marcy house, and, even then, they have very few of them.