After the deadly collapse of a parking structure in lower Manhattan, New York City building officials swept through dozens of parking garages and ordered four of them to immediately shutter because of structural defects that “deteriorated to the point where they were now posing an immediate threat to public safety.”

New York City plans to spend more than $10 billion on a project that will speed up climate change and increase the number of New Yorkers killed by traffic and pollution. The good news is that the city will hold meetings so the public can comment on the plan, which is rebuilding the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway (BQE).

Some luxury high rises in the Big Apple have high-tech automated robotic parking spaces beneath them that cost as much as a single-family home.

New York just got more room to celebrate the holidays this year — well, only on Sundays.

Maybe this will silence the skeptics.

Open Streets Program

By promoting outdoor dining, the city’s Open Streets program has helped some eating and drinking establishments survive the pandemic, a new report finds.

New York City has data showing substantial reductions in serious injuries and fatalities resulting from road diets, pedestrian islands and sidewalk extensions. Advocates say it's a rare kind of accountability for roadway designers.

The MTA has done a terrible job selling congestion pricing to the public

If New York City adopts congestion pricing, it would be the first US city to put a tax on traffic of sorts.

A spike in car ownership, dining sheds and the comeback of alternate-side parking are making it tougher than ever to find spaces.

Since the pandemic hit, car ownership has soared, stoking tensions over parking spots. Advocacy groups for mass transit don’t have much sympathy.

Even the capital of Albania has more school streets per capita than New York City.

After a pandemic pause, alternate side parking returns to New York City with campaigners hoping it will mean cleaner streets

Demolition work began this week on a Lower East Side park that is a focal point in the tension between the community and developers on the waterfront. The

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.