The Inner Ring Neighborhoods are based on a study released in December 2013 by the NYC Department of City Planning. These neighborhoods are characterized by access to transit, relatively low car ownership rates, medium to high housing density, and journey-to-work patterns that more closely resemble the patterns of Manhattan core residents. These neighborhoods represent potent sites for rethinking parking requirements in New York City.

WHY NYCHA SURFACE PARKING LOTS?

When considering parking on the scale of a neighborhood, there is potential for a reciprocal relationship between NYCHA-owned sites and their surroundings. Since these sites are public land, they pose a significant potential especially within the context of the whole city.

Each NYCHA cluster has a substantial amount of off-street surface parking. By rethinking the role of these spaces, we can provide opportunities by: constructing additional housing units, better integrating NYCHA campuses with the surrounding street grid, providing additional amenities to NYCHA as well as neighborhood residents and most importantly, providing choices of mobility.