Tag: parking

A Friday afternoon fight escalates.

The weekly ritual of alternate side parking appears to have gotten even more tense. Jason Haber said he saw two angry disputes break out on 74th Street during

On Friday July 24th at 9:00 am, thirty-two residents on my Upper West Side block exited their buildings to participate in a peculiar rite of New York living

The twice-weekly ritual that many Upper West Siders have practiced for decades is about to change. Instead of sitting in their cars

After the longest suspension of alternate-side parking regulations in memory, the city reopened the street to street-sweepers this week, and some residents

An SUV attempted to mount a sedan on Columbus Avenue, or at least that's what it looks like in the photos we've been receiving from tipsters.

The third time was the charm for Community Board 7, who after several months of back and forth has passed a resolution in favor of a study on the city's current parking

A resolution to end free curbside parking on the Upper West Side last year has been withdrawn, but the fight over curbside space rages on, and the next debate is set for Tuesday.

Parking rules on the Upper West Side have inspired some of the most intense debates in the neighborhood over the past couple of months -- and now a local committee

A proposed Community Board 7 resolution requesting a city study on curbside usage was sent back to the Transportation Committee during the December full board meeting.

Most members of the Community Board 7 Transportation Committee still seem convinced that allowing people to park at the curb for free is a bad use of public space. But they're

Community Board 7 will hold a forum on Tuesday, October 29 to consider what to do with the "acres of public real estate" currently used for curbside parking.

Starting this Friday, there will be a worldwide "Climate Strike" to highlight the need for action on climate change. In conjunction with the event and in advance

A state judge denied a condo board's request to halt a city plan to add a protected bike lane on Central Park West on Wednesday, and the city quickly banned parking

To the surprise of some residents, parking spots on West End Avenue between 79th and 96th Street were turned into loading zones for taxis and delivery trucks over the past week and a half.

Getting your car booted is never fun, and the fines involved can be taxing. But one driver on the Upper West Side found a way out of the

Over 100 Upper West Side residents gathered for what was, at times, a tense Community Board 7 meeting on Tuesday night.

Some Upper West Siders may consider free curbside parking their birthright, to be interrupted only by alternate-side parking regulations

Local City Council members Mark Levine and Helen Rosenthal are proposing a bill that would create residential parking permits for people

Earlier this fall, sharp-eyed West Side Rag reader Brennan Szabo noticed something missing on West 111th Street between Broadway and Riverside. Two parking spaces that had