Comments on: Less Parking, More Healthy Food http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/06/19/less-parking-more-healthy-food/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:31:30 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Steve Johnson http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/06/19/less-parking-more-healthy-food/comment-page-1/#comment-70561 Steve Johnson Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:48:14 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=6474#comment-70561 Grocerant food or ready to eat and ready to heat foods are showing up all around the country. This is a great thing. It's fresh, and ready to go and in most locals there is less packaging! That is even a better thing. Grocerant food or ready to eat and ready to heat foods are showing up all around the country. This is a great thing. It's fresh, and ready to go and in most locals there is less packaging! That is even a better thing.

]]> By: Stacy http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/06/19/less-parking-more-healthy-food/comment-page-1/#comment-70531 Stacy Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:33:01 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=6474#comment-70531 Parking spaces? The only supermarkets in Manhattan that I can think of with parking are the Cherry Street Pathmark and the 12th Avenue Fairway. My local Morton WIlliams has a driveway, for deliveries, and a couple of bike racks for shoppers. The bigger problem, at least in Manhattan prior to The Great Recession, was that property has become far too valuable to be "wasted" on supermarkets. Why sell food when you could rent to a bank or a drug store? Maybe Brooklyn developers feel they need parking for all those Manhattanites who will be buying groceries in the outer boroughs? Not that we drive cars much anyway. Parking spaces? The only supermarkets in Manhattan that I can think of with parking are the Cherry Street Pathmark and the 12th Avenue Fairway. My local Morton WIlliams has a driveway, for deliveries, and a couple of bike racks for shoppers.

The bigger problem, at least in Manhattan prior to The Great Recession, was that property has become far too valuable to be "wasted" on supermarkets. Why sell food when you could rent to a bank or a drug store?

Maybe Brooklyn developers feel they need parking for all those Manhattanites who will be buying groceries in the outer boroughs? Not that we drive cars much anyway.

]]> By: Eric McClure http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/06/19/less-parking-more-healthy-food/comment-page-1/#comment-70521 Eric McClure Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:58:34 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=6474#comment-70521 Case in point: Whole Foods' stalled plan to build a store with a <i>whopping</i> 420 parking spaces in the Gowanus, which, by its own admission, would generate more than <b>half a million</b> new car trips annually. The city has taken no action to try to limit parking and encourage alternatives, and Whole Foods has stonewalled <a href="http://www.parkslopeneighbors.org/wholefoods/index.htm" rel="nofollow">Park Slope Neighbors' proposal for a better plan</a>. Case in point: Whole Foods' stalled plan to build a store with a whopping 420 parking spaces in the Gowanus, which, by its own admission, would generate more than half a million new car trips annually. The city has taken no action to try to limit parking and encourage alternatives, and Whole Foods has stonewalled Park Slope Neighbors' proposal for a better plan.

]]> By: Jonathan http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/06/19/less-parking-more-healthy-food/comment-page-1/#comment-70371 Jonathan Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:07:56 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=6474#comment-70371 It's worse in Detroit; I drove all over downtown Detroit for three days and found only one supermarket. It's worse in Detroit; I drove all over downtown Detroit for three days and found only one supermarket.

]]> By: Rhywun http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/06/19/less-parking-more-healthy-food/comment-page-1/#comment-70361 Rhywun Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:59:59 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=6474#comment-70361 Ugh, is there anywhere in America where food shopping is more miserable than in NYC? I was appalled to see how awful the supermarkets are when I moved here a dozen years ago. Ugh, is there anywhere in America where food shopping is more miserable than in NYC? I was appalled to see how awful the supermarkets are when I moved here a dozen years ago.

]]> By: Cap'n Transit http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/06/19/less-parking-more-healthy-food/comment-page-1/#comment-70341 Cap'n Transit Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:45:53 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=6474#comment-70341 Here in NYC, we've got our own issues with supermarkets, and with politicians who seem to believe that the only way they can support a viable supermarket is by destroying beautiful old buildings for subsidized parking to create a <a href="http://capntransit.blogspot.com/2009/05/destination-supermarket.html" rel="nofollow">destination supermarket</a>. I hope Tish James reads some of these articles and blog posts. Here in NYC, we've got our own issues with supermarkets, and with politicians who seem to believe that the only way they can support a viable supermarket is by destroying beautiful old buildings for subsidized parking to create a destination supermarket. I hope Tish James reads some of these articles and blog posts.

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