WPIX on Brooklyn Heights Parking Woes

Oh, my God…they want the city to change its pickup days to accommodate their parking woes?

More self-indulgent, self-obsessed upper class New Yorkers who think that others should revolve around their very precious needs.
Poor thing had to sell her car…poor thing…

And yes…I have a car.

I don’t see the big deal in having the City change its pickup days if it makes life easier for the people that live in an area — whether we’re talking about the Heights or East NY. Money has nothing to do with it. Making accommodations for one another is how we coexist in peace.

EHinBH, I’ve no desire to live in the suburbs; I’m not the one complaining about things that are essential parts of urban living, like managing where to park your car (for FREE!) on the street. If you want to be able to park your car easily, buy a place with a driveway or rent a parking place. Don’t expect the rest of the city to accommodate your needs.

I am neither bitter nor envious (for all you know, I live in a penthouse on Columbia Heights), just tired of the self-involvement of people who think that the world should revolve around them and their needs.

This isn’t is a gated community where we get to decide who comes and goes (and yes, I do recall your concern about people from “other neighborhoods” who might, perish the thought, come to Brooklyn Heights to avail themselves of a *public* pool), and where we get to make the rules about when the trash should be picked up. If you want to have that level of control over your environment, urban living is likely not the right choice.

They have really started ticketing hardcore in this area. My wife got a ticket after leaving her car on the alternate side 9 minutes before 8am. Zero tolerance now if you aren’t in your car. Just lame.

I don’t understand (or yes I do – it’s revenue for the city) why there must be parking meters on the side streets. I used to live on the Upper West side and there are only meters on the streets where the commerce is concentrated: Broadway and Amsterdam. That makes sense. If they won’t (and they won’t) remove the meters on the side streets, the other thing the city might do is provide parking for the 30-40 Prius’s that line both sides of Joralemon every night. They are owned by the some city department (I forget if it’s Water, or Environment), and it seems unfair that they take the street spaces that residents could be using. Is there no city-owned parking down here? like under the courthouse?

parking=car=gasoline=oil=billions of dollars wasted and meaningless deaths of young Americans overseas

What’s truly unfair is that on the streets where ASP is supposed to take place during a 90 minute interval, and the street sweeper comes through lets say within the first 20 minutes of the regulation, folks should be allowed to re-park on the freshly cleaned street.

What’s the harm in parking on that side of the street after the first and only pass of sanitation truck comes through?

Also, every street in this neighborhood should be at 90 minute intervals. What’s the purpose of an all-day regulation when the sweeper comes through only once during that whole day?

Yes, ABC, the twirling of trash is trite. Ari, I recall vaguely that there is an initiative to allow people to leave their cars after the truck goes by. On Columbia Heights, they come through right at the start of the “verboten” time, and then you have to sit for 1 1/2 hours for nothing, and ticketing goes on up to the 9;59:59. And buggs, I too miss that parking garage on Atlantic and Court, it was reasonable and large. This reminds me: at Love Lane Garage, another parking venue lost to condos, I complained that an employee had dented my car. The manager responded:”Whaddaya think we got working here, MITs from Harvard?”