In a shocking move of bravery on behalf of a historically spineless City Council, the legislative body says it will override Mayor Bloomberg’s grace period veto for parking violations. |DNAinfo|
Surprisingly, the spineless City Council passed a new resolution allowing for a five-minute grace period on parking regulations, a measure the mayor is adamantly opposed to and promises to veto. |NYP|
Thanks to a planned pedestrian plaza in Brooklyn, the NYPD will no longer be able to park vehicles on the sidewalks, making residents happy: “I’m glad the DOT has recognized that there are better uses for sidewalks than parking.” And cops pissed: “It’s not a very bright idea. There’s literally nowhere for us to park around here. That’s why we’re on the sidewalk in the first place.” |NYDN|
Thanks to the NYPD’s lackluster traffic enforcement and abuse of parking privileges, Bronx firefighters couldn’t even hook up hoses to put out a burning apartment building yesterday. They had to resort to handheld extinguishers because the nearest hydrant was blocked by an illegally parked police vehicle, using an official NYPD parking placard. |NYP|
If they had only crafted a fake placard, Enrique Velez and Marta Lily wouldn’t be complaining about getting a ticket on their illegally parked car. The couple seems to think breastfeeding their kid should absolve them from following parking regulations, which they’re apparently not very good at. In her sympathetic storytelling, Jennifer 8. Lee neglects to mention the other two parking tickets the couple has racked up in recent months. |NYT|
Despite the City’s much-hyped efforts to crackdown on parking placard abuse, getting away with illegal parking is still no problem thanks to the NYPD’s biased and broken enforcement policy. Traffic enforcement officers routinely ignore unlawfully parked cars if they have an official-looking parking permit, even a fake one for a nonexistent city agency. Transportation Alternatives put the agency’s enforcement to the test, “parking a car illegally in Manhattan last week with a fake permit bearing the name of a bogus agency, ‘Citizen Protection Administration.’” Though traffic agents ticketed surrounding cars, they were suckered by the fake permit and ignored the illegal parking job. |NYP|
A Sheepshead Bay man had a $115 ticket for parking in front of a nonexistent fire hydrant dismissed, following a two-and-a-half-year battle costing him at least $7500. 63-year-old Simon Belsky, a retired businessman, began the fight because he had “nothing else to do,” but is now running for City Council on a anti-parking ticket platform, which should keep him a bit busier. |NYDN|
First they’re blessed with an IKEA and now Red Hook residents get another perk for their Brooklyn neighborhood: relaxed alternative side of the street parking rules. For the next 3-4 weeks, drivers don’t have to move their cars as DOT workers scramble to put up 1,400 new signs. |NY1|
The free ride is over for Park Slope’s car driving residents, with alternative side of the street parking signs returned to their rightful spots after a two month suspension. However, there’s some reprieve with many of the new signs requiring only a 1.5 hour street cleaning window and cars required to move only 1x a week. The war is on! |NYDN|
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