The state has put the brakes on an unconventional parking plan at the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn that critics feared would have created neighborhood traffic nightmares.
Stack-parking — a time-consuming process that uses hydraulic lifts to stack anywhere from two to four cars atop one another — won’t be used, as previously planned, at a surface parking lot under construction next to the Nets’ new home.
Kenneth Adams, president the Empire State Development Corp., said the agency instead has agreed to cut the amount of mandated spaces in half — from 1,100 to slightly less than 550.
Hydraulic systems slow the entry and exit of cars, and residents living near the 18,000-seat Prospect Heights arena have long contended it would create bumper-to-bumper traffic on surrounding streets and send antsy drivers to seek out the area’s few remaining curbside spaces.
A permanent underground lot is supposed to be built as part of the larger Atlantic Yards project.
But with the development’s 16 residential and commercial towers on hold, the surface lot is expected to exist for years.