Looking for ways to raise city revenue back in 1952, New York planners floated a bold scheme: charge car-owners to park on the street overnight. Predictably, it set off an uproar, before dying repeated agonizing deaths. Plural. The story emerges in news clippings and files of the Mayor’s Committee on Management Survey, that mouthful of … Continue reading Road Rage, 1952: An Overnight Parking Tax