The recent rule change is irrelevant because the city was developed when the rule was still in place. Cities don't change overnight. The point is that minimum

The recent rule change is irrelevant because the city was developed when the rule was still in place. Cities don't change overnight. The point is that minimum parking requirements create terrible cities. Louisville is primarily different from NYC in that it is highly dependant on cars, massive roads, and massive parking lots, while NYC is not. If NYC was developed in the age of cars when off-street parking minimums began to be widely adopted by cities everywhere across the continent, it would be very similar to Louisville. But it wasn't, and it isn't. That's the entire point of the comparison.