Yesterday we looked at the Department of City Planning's eight-year record on rezoning and its general success at creating opportunities for development near transit.

Looking for open parking spaces in the city is one of the more teeth-grinding rituals for drivers, but researchers at Rutgers University in New Jersey may have hit upon a relatively low-cost solution.

Swarms of traffic agents patrol the jammed streets of Astoria's commercial strips every day, writing tickets for expired meters and double-parked cars - even as drivers sit in their vehicles.

If you're a driver in Park Slope, you've probably spent more than your fair share of time looking for a parking spot -- about 27 minutes per day, according to a recent study by Transportation Alt

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New York may be the most transit-rich city in the nation, but that doesn't mean big changes to the city's planning policies aren't necessary.

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Two days after a second devastating fire destroyed several businesses in the Norwood section of The Bronx, a Mercedes Benz registered to controversial State Senator Pedro Espada, Jr.

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The Supreme Court Justice who sentenced Anthony Marshall to prison for stealing his mother Brook Astor's fortune has been caught illegally using a parking placard issued by the NYPD.

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The owner of the "suspicious" white van with temporary plates and a fake police parking placard that forced a shutdown of Times Square on December 30--complete with the bomb squad investigation and n

City drivers may yet catch a break from getting a parking ticket when the meter expires, but it won't be on Mayor Bloomberg's dime.

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METER FEEDER: Imagine getting a text message before your parking meter expires -- and then plunking in a few virtual quarters remotely from a cell phone.