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November 1, 2006
T.O.D. in Brooklyn: Turning Parking Lots into Housing
As an introduction to tonight's Transit-Oriented Development forum, Streets Blog has posted a short article cataloging the resurgence of a Brooklyn neighborhood where developers are "paving over" parking lots with housing.
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I always thought it was odd that all these parking lots should be sitting on land atop a bigger subway station. The fact that so many parking lots offered cheap parking so close to shopping and offices no doubt encouraged many people who could travel by train to drive instead. That dynamic is changing.
Those of you who are concerned about traffic and transportation in the area may want to attend the forum, though it might be closed to RSVPs.
NoLandGrab: Is it coincidence that this faded section of downtown Brooklyn, replete with massive parking lots, had languished for oh, say, 60 years? NLG thinks not. For that reason alone, the Atlantic Yards project, with its multi-acre "interim surface parking lot" (a neighborhood-killer if ever there was one), should be condemned to living out its days in model form, confined securely in the Atlantic Center mall's "exhibition" room.
Posted by lumi at November 1, 2006 7:49 AM