Posts about Bronx

They paved a park and put up a parking lot: NYC gave away a neighborhood's baseball fields to build parking garages for Yankee Stadium. But almost nobody is parking in the garages. (Transportation Nation) (Comment)

Reducing zoning increases parking rules: New York downzoned an area of the Bronx to create a "neighborhood preservation area," but as a side effect, it imposed a much stricter parking minimum requirement, forcing a HUD-funded project to build less affordable housing than it previously could have. (Streetsblog) (Comment)

Atlanta, New Haven and the Bronx get the TIGER: TIGER II grant winners won't be announced until next week, but a few have leaked out: New Haven's boulevardization of a stub end freeway downtown, a streetcar in Atlanta, and two projects in New York, to analyze removing the Sheridan Expressway and redesigning Fordham Plaza. (Streetsblog) (Comment)

And...: WMATA is accusing a MetroAccess driver of sexual assault, the third such case this year (Examiner) ... Loudoun officials approve another huge development in a greenfield far from transit (Post) ... New York officials seem seriously open to proposals to remove the redundant and reviled Sheridan Expressway in the Bronx (NYT) ... DC has the lowest pay gap between men and women compared to any state. (The Sexist) (Comment)

We told you so, New York: Back in 2004, Mayor Bloomberg turned over a city-owned market filled with small vendors to a big-box developer to build an auto-centric mall in the Bronx. Despite being near public transit, the developer, Related Companies, built giant parking lots, narrow and winding pedestrian access, and a design that turned its back on nearby neighborhoods. Now, they're surprised to find out that more people are arriving by transit than by car, and the tiny pedestrian ramps are busy while the garages sit empty. (Streetsblog NYC) (Comment)

Transit

More than a thousand words

by David Alpert • March 27, 2006 12:53 am

None but the most corrupt of politicians would think that moving Yankee Stadium over to a public park, farther from the highway, replacing that park with some space on top of garages and other parkland crammed up against the river far away from the neighborhood, and having the city kick in $70 million for this, could possibly be a good idea.

Will of OnNYTurf created a terrific Google Map depicting the plan. It makes it clear, far more than any news article, what a monumentally idiotic idea this latest development scheme is, worse even than the other two "a stadium at all costs" plans we've had during this administration.

Plus, building a Metro-North station along the train line that already passes directly by the site is "not in the cards". I've tried and failed to find any possible rationale for this project other than Bronx politicians being bought off.