Make your voice heard and let the City know that daylighting intersections across New York City make our streets safer. Physically daylit intersections in New York City will contribute to safer, more livable neighborhoods for all residents.

Lifting parking mandates citywide will create a ripple effect of livability for New York City — spurring more affordable housing, cleaning air, safer streets, and more vibrant communities.

Join Open Plans and other advocates in supporting lifting parking mandates for housing, livability, and climate. Tell the Department of City Planning and your local Councilmember and Borough President to prioritize people over cars!

Lifting parking mandates citywide will create a ripple effect of livability for New York City — spurring more affordable housing, cleaning air, safer streets, and more vibrant communities.

Open Plans intern Modhupa Tsali is a high school student and climate activist who works to build more livable communities that are free from polluting fossil fuels and climate injustice.

The student leaders behind Washington Heights’ Clean Air Green Corridor talk about the work they’re doing to clean up the streets and inspire a better, greener future.

Gowanus Canal Conservancy’s youth programs teach environmental stewardship and community building while making the neighborhood’s streets more livable, one block at a time.

Open Plans report “Parking Minimums are Parking Mandates: Lifting Parking Mandates in New York City” explores what parking minimums are, how they’re harmful, and how to move forward — making the case to fully eliminate New York City’s parking mandates, citywide, in the upcoming City of Yes Zoning Text Amendment.

Watch these behind-the-scenes videos of public space transformations in New York City by Clarence Eckerson, Jr. of Streetfilms. Eckerson has filmed many of the recent winners of Open Plans’ Public Space Awards.