Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking Placards

Portland Tackled Disabled Parking Placard Abuse, and It’s Working

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 7, 2014 | No Comments

Disabled parking placards used to be ubiquitous in Portland. Until very recently, the city provided unlimited free street parking to placard holders, estimated at a $2,000 annual value. Many cars bearing these placards would remain in prime spots for weeks or months without moving. In some parts of the city, cars with placards would occupy 20 percent or […]

WNBC Shames City for Letting Employees Hog Parking With Bogus Placards

By Stephen Miller | Jul 14, 2014 | 11 Comments

The next time you’re in a part of town where a lot of city employees work, take a look at the dashboards of cars occupying curbside parking spots. In neighborhoods across the city, you’ll see bogus placards that parking cheats use to evade meters and other regulations. In a two-part series, WNBC’s Tom Llamas traveled to Atlantic […]

Eyes on the Street: Parking Placard Abuse in Prospect Lefferts Gardens

By Stephen Miller | May 23, 2014 | 7 Comments

Parking placard abuse might be most noticeable in hotspots like Lower Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn, but it’s an epidemic in neighborhoods across the city. Reader Eli Forsythe sent in photos of an illegally-parked car with a placard on the dash in Prospect Lefferts Gardens last weekend. “Cars are constantly parking in front of my building,” he writes. […]

Local BID and CB 2 Ask DOT for More Safety Upgrades on Atlantic Avenue

By Stephen Miller | Apr 18, 2014 | 15 Comments

Last week, Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn became the city’s first “arterial slow zone” with a 25 mph speed limit. Now, a business improvement district on the avenue’s western end is asking for pedestrian safety upgrades, and Community Board 2’s transportation committee has signed on. “Pedestrian improvements are customer improvements,” said Atlantic Avenue BID Executive Director […]

Eyes on the Street: Illegal Parking Crackdown Coming to Jay Street

By Brad Aaron | Apr 2, 2014 | 10 Comments

Reader Eric McClure spotted these flyers today on cars “up and down Jay Street between Johnson and Willoughby,” in the 84th Precinct. This comes a few weeks after attendees at a public workshop identified illegal parking as a major safety hazard and a major source of dysfunction on Jay Street, where pedestrians, cyclists, buses, and private […]

Survey: Majority of New Yorkers Would Pay for a Parking Permit

By Stephen Miller | Mar 12, 2014 | 41 Comments

If you own a car in New York City and need a place to park, leaving it on the street is a nice bargain. The only “cost” is alternate-side restrictions for street cleaning — otherwise, all that space is free. It’s such a good deal that in outer-borough neighborhoods, most car owners with an off-street […]

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