[crazygringo]

Ideally the city would have to have the courage to assign permits to individual blocks and create permit-only zones that fit the entire number of permits granted, with temporary parking only allowed in a small number of parking spots remaining outside those zones. And it should be hundreds of dollars a year at a minimum -- or even better, auctioned off, which would almost certainly be a thousand or more a year in many neighborhoods.

But nevertheless, increasing city revenue is nothing to sneeze at -- since it will presumably either lower taxes for the rest of us or delay otherwise inevitable increases.

Because the majority of non-car-owning New Yorkers shouldn't be subsidizing residential car owners, which is what happens right now. Car owners should be paying market rate for their parking space, just like I pay market rate for my apartment space.