The Upper West and East sides of Manhattan are set to lose about 10% of their street parking as the city installs new curbside trash containers to get garbage bags off the sidewalks.
A draft environmental assessment published earlier this month shows the two neighborhoods hugging Central Park will each lose about 1,500 parking spaces to the city’s new “Empire Bins” — far more than any other area of the city.
The trash container plan calls for removing up to 29,842 street parking spots across the city by 2032. But the Upper East and West Sides are slated to be at the vanguard of the sanitation department’s battle over street space…