Dear Visitors: Please note the Park(ing) Day NYC website will be under construction for the coming fall and winter months. Please revisit the site in April 2011.

To learn more about Park(ing) Day NYC or Transportation Alternatives, or to ask questions about the event, please email: info@parkingdaynyc.org.

See you in 2011! The Park(ing) Day NYC Team

We are so excited to announce that Park(ing) Spot hosts can now register online for Park(ing) Day NYC 2010!

Our website is currently undergoing some updates but in the mean time you can register to host a Park(ing) Spot here. As always you’ll need to select your spot and gather some information before registering, so check out the How-To Guide! Also, the Department of Transportation has an online database of parking regulations for New York City so you can find out the parking rules at your spot here.

We hope that past Park(ing) Spot hosts will join us again this year. Your amazing creativity and hard work makes this event happen year after year. And if you know of other organizations or individuals who would be interested in hosting a Park(ing) Spot please send them our way!

If you have any questions or need some inspiration for your Park(ing) Spot please contact us at info@parkingdaynyc.org

Fixcity.org is amazing! It is a pro-active approach to all those frustrating moments when you find yourself standing on the street, muttering where the #$% is a bike rack! Now you can request racks for all those locations.

Here’s a recap of the day told to us by spot organizer Lacey Tauber and photo by Dan Latorre:

The Open Planning Project, the TA Brooklyn Committee, and local community advocacy group NAG (Neighbors Allied for Good Growth) teamed up on Park(ing) Day to present a new website, FixCity.org Bike Racks. FixCity.org is an online platform communities can use to map desired bike rack locations. The pilot neighborhood is Greenpoint-Williamsburg so we set up our Park(ing) Space at Bedford and North 7th Street, right by the Bedford Avenue L train. Using a solar-powered laptop charger borrowed from our friends at Solar One, we premiered the site to passersby who used the interactive mapping tool to request new bike rack locations in the neighborhood. The goal of the site is to ultimately present 300 new, fully vetted bike rack orders to the Department of Transportation. If this pilot project is successful, the tool can be used citywide!

In addition to promoting FixCity, we also gave “bike therapy,” handing out TA’s Biking Rules guide, and promoting the upcoming Biking Rules PSA Festival!

Check out more photos from the hosts’ Flickr accounts:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/neotint/3933431672/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51452761@N00/sets/72157622285501143/