Sometimes, it takes the view of someone outside the city.
For instance, I was walking with my partner in the Upper East Side last weekend, made a joke about an open parking spot on a side street, and she was shocked that street parking in such a dense neighborhood was free.
Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City
It's never not shocking to see that weak-ass map of NYC parking meters
I live near areas that have rapidly gone from decrepit industrial to busy mixed commercial/residential and the avenue still has alt-side parking (and trucks consequently stopped in the middle of the street as a feature)
Jon Orcutt
Just 3% of parking spaces in NYC are metered. Everything else is a double-parked, lane-blocked free-for-all. @emmagf.bsky.social @edenweingart.bsky.social and I look at ways the city could fix it
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There are about three million parking spaces in New York City, but drivers are always struggling to find one that’s open. Can the system be fixed?
