City to Designate Ten Parking Spots in the Heights to Rideshare Vehicles

So the question is this — does the increased ease of finding a ride share vehicle convince at least 11 car owners in the Heights to sell their car?

Personally, I doubt it. :-/

Good point. And agreed. Most locals don’t have cars. And if these rideshare cars cut down on cars circling the block looking for parking, then we all win.

Also, Park Slope is vastly larger than Brooklyn Heights so the 30 spots won’t be as painful for them. Also, we get hit with commuters who leave their car here and take the subway into Manhattan. AND we have a ton of spaces taken up by false placards. And with a number of short blocks we lose a greater percentage of our street length to Fire Zones.

I’m not against these parking spaces — I’m just pointing out that our neighborhood is exceptionally parking challenged. :-/

Statistically, about 46% of NYC households own a car. Granted, It may be a little less in the Heights, given our proximity to ample mass transit but it’s hardly a “vast majority who don’t own cars”.

How about 60 to 75% don’t own cars here? 46% is in NYC overall. The following, from 2012, shows that car ownership in BH is only 25-40%:

http://tinyurl.com/y85jv25h

Figures are skewed by Staten Island and eastern Queens, with fewer transit options.

You criticize Andrew for providing 2012 analysis by EDC and then you link to a blog post from 2011? Here is an 2017 analysis from TA: http://blog.tstc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/how-car-free-is-nyc.pdf

Car ownership is flat on a per-capita basis. It is growing because the population is increasing.

The comprehensive study I provided link to was from October 2016. the blog post was to show even anti car sites agree.
PS your link is dead?

Personally, I don’t need any studies to tell me that most residents of Veooklyn Heights don’t have cars — it’s just obvious. Even including the in-neighborhood AND nearby garages with the street spaces there’s not *remotely* enough spaces for even half of us to own a car.

And really, the people who Park in garages shouldn’t even be factored in. These Car Share spaces only negatively directly affect the tiny percent of residents who street park. That’s got to be what? 10%?

I’d happily trade a public resource — street parking — that negatively impacts 10% of us to benefit the other 90%.

(And as long as we’re on the topic, I think it’s absurd that a public resource — curb space — should be given away for free to the minority’s to choose to own a car. There should be street parking permits and they should cost a substantial amount, not a token fee.)

I’d argue one way the fake placards take spots from other drivers is parking on the “alternate” side before alternate hours open up. This forces other who just want switch side to meander all over the neighborhood looking for parking.

They also monopolize meters, which leads to short-term parkers taking the occasional long-term spot.

As far as the rideshare spaces being “bought” by private companies I’d argue that 1) there are not enough centrally locates garages in the Heights for them to use. Really, there’s just the one by Gristede’s. The one on State has a waiting list and the one on Montague doesn’t allow customer access. Probably more important is visibility. Seeing the spaces, empty or full, will help people realize it’s an option.

My biggest concern is if some of these spaces sit empty for long stretches. That’s really going to turn people against the services.

Anyone know how they are going to be handled “street cleaning”. Im a zipcar

User, and one of the things I liked about
their service in 75 Henry was that they didn’t make you park the cars on the street unlike that blue and white rental company where drivers kept leaving their cars “on the street” which interfered with street cleaning.

Its bad enough trying to get people to move their cars on Henry St for the cleaning truck to come along at the best of times……(why the don’t have a cop car following it writing tickets I’ll never know).

This said….we have this dedicated share car parking system operating in Sydney and it works great with a number of people I know swapping their ‘private car’ out for using share car services due to not using it enough and making more sense to hire.

See my last comment. All data shared by anyone including you prove that most locals in the neighborhood don’t have cars.

The assumption that this is otherwise remains completely unsupported. Combined with multiple sources of data showing the opposite, that reads like a sound and well-supported claim to me.

Ha ha….like that’s going to happen.

The more I think about it, the more I realize that there are a few garages sprinkled around the residential buildings of the neighborhood. There’s one on Willow, on the east side, closer to Pierrepont than Clark. There’s also one in the building on the corner of Joralemon and Henry with the ramp on Joralemon. But both of those are for residents only I expect — there’s no way into the garage without going through the building lobby. Also, the new building going up where the library was will have a garage and I expect the monster going up on Montague/Pierrepont might have one.

Reggie, interesting info. Where did you get that?

And I expect it might happen. These companies are motivated to make this work. People were concerned about cleaning the street by Citibike racks and years later they don’t seem to be a real problem.