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March 16, 2012
Deck is stacked against stack-parking plan for Barclays Center
The Brooklyn Blog [NYPost.com]
by Rich Calder
A top official for the developer building Brooklyn’s Barclays Center said today it’s her “mission” to reduce hundreds of spaces at a parking garage going up next to the NBA Nets' future home to avoid using controversial stack-parking spaces there.
Jane Marshall, an executive vice president at Forest City Ratner, told community leaders and city officials at Borough Hall yesterday that the company “is doing everything we can to avoid it” and the potential traffic problems such a system could bring.
Who wants to wager that Jane comes up a little short of fulfilling her "mission?"
As the Post reported in February, stack parking spaces -- which use hydraulic lifts to stack anywhere from two to four cars atop one another -- are currently in FCR's playbook for operating the 18,000-seat arena. But these spaces are a huge concern of neighborhood residents, who fear they would slow the entry and exit of cars from the lot and create major traffic jams.
No current New York pro-sports venue uses stack parking.
The concern, neighborhood residents say, is that hydraulic systems and valet service associated with stack parking slow the entry and exit of cars from the lot, potentially creating bumper-to-bumper traffic on surrounding streets and sending antsy drivers to seek the area’s few remaining curbside spaces.
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Posted by eric at March 16, 2012 2:50 PM