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Back when COVID-19 ravaged New York City and turned the city’s transportation needs upside down, significant portions of the road space were repurposed for non-car use. From bike lanes to public seating and urban parks, roads that previously saw gridlocked traffic were nearly instantly transformed into public spaces that benefitted a wider group of residents. […]

Plan would create the equivalent space of 13 Central Parks to be used for 500 miles of dedicated bus lanes and 500 miles of protected bike lanes

Car condos are popping up in New York City, and car owners are spending as much as some people do on a house to get one. Find out more.

A surge in electric-powered mobility devices during the pandemic is likely to become a lasting feature, transforming the New York City streetscape.

The mandatory parking minimum law is the demon child of car culture and NIMBYism — but it is finally being attacked by progressive leaders. Where will Mayor Adams stand? He isn’t saying.

As America recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, some New Yorkers are deciding whether to keep their newly purchased cars.

The Open Restaurants program, founded during the pandemic, deserves to be a permanent part of the cityscape. Here are some common-sense steps.

The city could repurpose its huge fleet into a car-share one, starting with the NYPD’s huge cache of vehicles.

Why do American cities waste so much space on cars?

The community boards are poised to take a bite out of Mayor de Blasio’s COVID streeteries.

New York City isn’t dead. Anyone who's enjoyed a beverage or a bite at one of the city’s hopping, vibrant Open Street eateries can tell you that. For

The rules of restaurant spaces are up for grabs as the city’s Department of Transportation looks to the future of street and sidewalk seating.

A new campaign uses data to persuade mayors to embrace car reduction.

The outdoor dining set-ups many restaurants created due to COVID-19 restrictions took over 8,500 parking spots away from the city.

Three-quarters of New York’s street space is dedicated to the movement and storage of vehicles. These renderings imagine what else that space could be used for.

The proposed Kew Gardens parking garage could be the first in New York City to be certified for its sustainability.Project architects revealed the goal of achieving Parksmart-certified status to the

Two tasks in New York City seem like a complete nightmare: finding parking and affordable real estate. One listing on Zillow combines these two Herculean tasks into one horrifying real estate listing. It seems someone is selling one of the cheapest piece of real estate in the city — a parking space in Brooklyn, at $100,000.

Whose compromise? Our compromise!

The project will be built across two city-owned sites and will result in approximately 180 affordable units, 80 of which will be dedicated to seniors.

The city’s pilot project to provide street and municipal-lot parking spaces for carshare services was successful, and the program would be made permanent, the city’s Department of Transportation announced.   At Smith and Butler streets in Cobble Hill, the site of two on-street carshare spaces, on Earth Day, DOT Commissioner Hank Gutman announced the program would expand from 14 pilot …

For decades, development of a scruffy lot on the edge of the South Street historic district has divided residents. Now our critic supports a new plan.

Under Andrew Yang’s proposal, the city would replace physical parking placards with digital stickers that could be more easily tracked.

Transportation, transit and traffic could be big issues in the city’s upcoming election. Here’s what the major candidates are saying about rethinking the streets.

Streetsblog rates NYPD station houses for their abuse of placard parking, and the 1st is first, second only to the 5th.

The City Planning Commission is pondering developer Monadnock’s request to build a Gowanus headquarters without the usual parking requirement.

The city could make billions for local communities with flexible, market-driven permits.

During the pandemic, bicycling boomed, leaving many cyclists to lock and park their bikes wherever they can.