One of the last truly free things in New York City might not stay that way for long.
As City Hall searches for ways to plug a looming budget hole, officials in mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration have begun openly discussing a once-taboo idea: charging drivers for many of the city’s currently free curbside parking spaces.
The idea came up during a March 5 CityLaw breakfast at New York Law School, when first deputy mayor Dean Fuleihan was asked whether metering currently free curbside parking or using demand-based “dynamic pricing” could help raise revenue for the city…