Oh No! Not This Sh*t Again

By on January 11, 2008 10:25 am in Brooklyn Heights

The Brooklyn Paper covers parking placard abuse in Downtown Brooklyn and the Bloomberg administration's promise to crack down on it in this week's issue.  Also in the mix – similar abuses in Brooklyn Heights. It's deja vu all over again!: 

Brooklyn Paper: Placard Crackdown…: Downtown isn’t the only neighborhood crying out for relief. Judy Stanton, executive director of the Brooklyn Heights Association, says parking permit abuse remains rampant in her neighborhood.

“Mayor Bloomberg and police officials are frequently quoted in the news as saying that they don’t tolerate parking placard abuse, but that’s hot air,” Stanton said. “What I see is city cars with placards parking anywhere they please.”

Stanton said that asking the NYPD to ticket other cops is like having the fox guarding the chicken coop.

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  • nabeguy

    And with developers snapping up every parking lot and garage in sight, this problem is only going to get more intense as people vie for fewer and fewer available spaces.
    Where’s that Nano now that we really need it?

  • Homer Fink

    Felix the Cat had it right, had a car in his bag of tricks. No parking necessary.

  • ABC

    anyone know why martin o’connor (state senator) has a handicapped placard in his car and parks in front of his apartment bldg? heard him say his mother was old and sick and he needed to reach her in a hurry… maybe, someday.

  • Unity 08

    Well, if Mike Bloomberg won’t stand up to parking placard abuse, I guess he’ll never be president.

  • http://adsformyself.blogspot.com Tim N.

    Three words:

    Resident
    Parking
    Permit

    This way, it won’t be only the police who have the permits.

  • JL

    Agree with Tim. Time for resident parking permits so at least those of us who pay taxes in this neighborhood have a chance to park on the street.

    Would also agree with nabeguy that the loss of parking garages (see Love Lane) doesn’t help. Perhaps this should be considered by the BHA/CB/etc. when a new developer comes in ready to knock down spaces.

    Last I heard, most of the parking garages aren’t taking monthlies anymore anyway.

  • Sam

    True Brooklynites will find a way to park no matter how difficult things get and it has become pretty difficult in the Heights. Life-crushingly difficult. But then nobody said living in NY was a picnic. If you want a nice quality of life move to San Francisco or Georgetown. Old houses have garages there. In Brooklyn we eat the weak and whiny.

  • hick-up

    Lived in San Francisco. My landlord on the ground floor took the garage and tenants parked on-street. Yes, there was permit parking but beware. Permits effectively block you out of (or get you ticketed in) contiguous areas that also use permits. After permitting implementation, this turned out to be the other side of the street for us!

  • hick-up

    Lived in San Francisco. My landlord on the ground floor took the garage and tenants parked on-street. Yes, there was permit parking but beware. Permits effectively block you out of (or get you ticketed in) contiguous areas that also use permits. After permitting implementation, this turned out to be the other side of the street for us!

  • Teek11201

    The problem with resident parking permits is that the rest of the city will introduce similar permit requirements. If one cannot readily go to other parts of the city, is not that worse than parking difficulties in Brooklyn Heights?

  • http://http:www.myspace.com/billyreno Billy Reno

    Wow! Time to adorn my dashboard with a parking Buddha, parking Jesus AND a parking L. Ron

  • No One Of Consequence

    I think Teek makes an excellent point. I dread having to drive into the city and paying $20-$40 an hour to park in a lot. At least there is always the chance of getting lucky and finding a spot, but resident parking would fade that glimmer of hope.

    I’ve said it numerous times on here before, either pay to park in a lot or don’t have a car or take your chances and don’t complain about it. At $300/month it’s only $10/day for a lot. Factor that in to an hourly rate for how long you spend driving around (wasting gas and creating pollution) and it’s a bargain.

  • http://adsformyself.blogspot.com Tim N.

    Yeah, but I don’t live in the rest of the city.

    I try not to drive within the city, since I actually prefer the subway, but when I need to get out of the city it would be nice to not have to fight folks with their own permits for a spot in my own neighborhood.

    As for garages, um, if they stopped turning into condos, this might be an answer.

  • Heights Neighbor

    The point is these permit cars arrogantly park illegally (by hydrands, in no parking areas, in cross walks) with no regard to signs…making the neighborhood much more congested.

    We need enforcement to go back to the DOT…not police oversight. That’s the problem.