Tag: Parking
The New York City Department of City Planning has recommended that parking requirements be eliminated for affordable and senior housing at locations within a half-mile of a subway station. Affordable housing is more important than parking, especially for people who live in affordable housing and don’t have a car, which is a majority. According to […]
On Prospect Park West at 9th Street, there are four parking spots that are off-limits to drivers between April and September. The stated purpose is to allow parks department vehicles access to the park during summer event season. But the ban has a side effect of being a nice little source of parking ticket revenue […]
Those special license plates issued to visiting diplomats don’t excuse them from parking tickets, the Wall Street Journal reports. Apparently, delegates from over 180 countries owe the city more than $16 million in unpaid summons. However, almost all off the debt — $15.6 million — was incurred before 2002, when Mayor Bloomberg cracked down on the blue-plated bastards, punishing unpaid summons by refusing […]
New legislation goes before the City Council today that would potentially allow drivers to return to their spots after the street sweepers pass on “alternate side parking” days. Due to parking shortage, the 90-minute parking restrictions currently result in double-parked cars, traffic jams, and other inconveniences. If the bill passes, the spots will be open […]
As most everyone knows, that parking spot right in front of your building isn’t actually your parking spot. But that doesn’t stop some enterprising New Yorkers from taking matters into their own hands, spray painting things like “No Parking 24 Hours,” usually in supremely shitty lettering and rife with spelling errors, on the curbs and streets in […]
