Thursday Links
Brooklyn Heights. Photo by alilovell. Brooklyn Councilman’s Funds for a Group He Founded Were Blocked [NY Times] New York, True to Mayor’s Promise, Slashes City Parking Permits [NY Times] 1,000 Affordable Units Saved for Elderly [City Room] Air Quality In New York ‘Dangerous’ [NY Sun] Bringing the Nets to Newark? [Star-Ledger] Daycare Leases Space in…
Brooklyn Heights. Photo by alilovell.
Brooklyn Councilman’s Funds for a Group He Founded Were Blocked [NY Times]
New York, True to Mayor’s Promise, Slashes City Parking Permits [NY Times]
1,000 Affordable Units Saved for Elderly [City Room]
Air Quality In New York ‘Dangerous’ [NY Sun]
Bringing the Nets to Newark? [Star-Ledger]
Daycare Leases Space in Dumbo [Eagle]
Sobering Foreclosure Numbers for NYC [WNBC]
Fort Greene House Tour Sunday! [CH Blog]
Gabby and Brownstoner:
For the FG House Tour, please post the Fort Greene Association website: http://www.historicfortgreene.org/
The Clinton Hill blog site doesn’t have a link, only the phone numbers for the two coordinators of the tour (one of whom is the new pres of the FGA).
THANKS!!!!!!!
The permits will be taken from “civilian” city workers. These are the people who are least likely to abuse their passes. The cops will continue to park where ever they please including bus stops and no standing zones. The mayor is not fooling anybody with this supposed crack down because a cop will never issue another cop a parking ticket. He would have to have an outside authority come and ticket their cars.
I don’t think it will free up much parking downtown. Many of the legal spaces are reserved for Police and judges even going into residenial streets. With this many transportation options during the day they need to cut down on some of the reserved spaces. Court officials that work the night court should still have some reserve parking But they don’t need much since competition for space is less at night.
Partially, but not entirely true, 9:25. In downtown Brooklyn, placard parkers often park at meters, so this may free up some parking for ‘regular folk.’
Re:parking placards
I applaud the mayor for reducing the # of city permits…but I have to laugh at the sentence in NYTimes that will make easier for others to find parking. Since these placards are used in places where average Joe can’t park. Bus lanes, front of hydrants,
sidewalks, etc, etc, etc.
I wish a daycare would lease a space in my building!