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Worth saving? From the front lines of the New York City preservation wars, one landlord is trying to convince the Landmarks Preservation Commission to allow him to demolish two of his landmarked buildings on the Upper East Side – something the commission has only approved 11 times for the 27,000 landmarks it [...] May 1st, 2011 | Tags: historic preservation, history, nyc | Category: Uncategorized | 2 comments |
 printable view1. NY Governor Cuomo promises the “most aggressive” strengthening of the state’s (read: NYC’s) rent laws. 2. Bronx <3 parking: “This community wants a moratorium on any more building until we get a parking lot.” “We don’t want any bigger buildings and we want parking space for everyone.” 3. Do people realize that “I [...] April 29th, 2011 | Tags: dc, density, nyc, parking | Category: Uncategorized | 2 comments |
printable view1. The fact that we even have to have a debate over whether residential development should be allowed in Midtown, where new residents will have perhaps a smaller impact on transportation infrastucture than anywhere else in the country (they can either walk to work or do a reverse train commute), is pretty pathetic. [...] April 29th, 2011 | Tags: Bay Area, dc, nyc, unions | Category: Uncategorized | 4 comments |
printable viewStreetsblog NYC has been doing an excellent job of hounding the city on its lack of action on parking reforms, but this article with developer Alan Bell talking about his experience with parking minimums in the city is, I think, the best so far. Here’s an excerpt: Hudson might have built more housing [...] 1. Shocker: The federal government is too incompetent to even sell its own buildings. Eh, oh well – it’s not like it holds most of that property in the city with the most expensive office space in America or anything. 2. Two State Senators from Queens are calling plans to toll the East [...] April 28th, 2011 | Tags: federal government, FHA, nyc, Philadelphia | Category: Uncategorized | 2 comments |
printable viewWell that was quick: Mr. Bloomberg made the so-called “five-borough taxi plan” a centerpiece of his State of the City address in January. The proposal called for creating a new class of livery cabs, with meters and, perhaps, a single color, that would be allowed to pick up passengers on the street outside [...] In the past I have not been kind to affordable housing programs. I have a lot of deeper problems with them that I’ll get to in a minute, but I think the extraordinarily high upper income limits on some of the projects are indicative of the broader problem of the essentially arbitrary and random (literally [...] April 26th, 2011 | Tags: affordable housing, nyc | Category: Uncategorized | 6 comments |
printable view1. NYT reports on dense suburban projects being scaled back across Long Island not because of financing constraints or the recession, but because local governments are refusing to accept the density. At the end it cites AvalonBay as saying that after the its rebuke on the Island, it will reconsider “whether we would [...] April 25th, 2011 | Tags: Bay Area, dc, nyc, parking, transit, zoning | Category: Uncategorized | 6 comments |
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