Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking Placards

NYPD Won’t Touch Upper West Side Block Commandeered by Illegal Parking

By Brad Aaron | Feb 5, 2013 | 18 Comments

A frustrated Upper West Side resident is looking to tame the rampant illegal parking and placard abuse on his block. Carson Dixon says the curbs and sidewalks of W. 83rd Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues are lined constantly with illegally parked vehicles, left there by postal workers, firefighters, and employees of a parking garage. […]

Will Loss of Parking Perk Get Community Board Chairs Out of Their Cars?

By Brad Aaron | Jan 22, 2013 | 10 Comments

It’s no secret that NYC community boards are highly protective of on-street parking, since their members seem more likely to be car owners than the population at large, but it was news to us that board chairs and district managers have free parking perks. The Brooklyn Paper reports that, come February 1, community board chairs […]

City Council Signs Off on Residential Parking Permits, Next Stop Albany

By Brad Aaron | Nov 3, 2011 | 5 Comments

The City Council today passed a home rule message backing Albany legislation that would allow the city to implement a residential parking permit program. The vote was 40-8. Charles Barron, Lew Fidler, Peter Vallone, and Al Vann joined four out of the five Republicans on the council in voting against the measure. (Eric Ulrich was the […]

NYPD Opposes Bill to Curb Placard Abuse as Total Soars to 118,000

By Noah Kazis | Jun 22, 2011 | 27 Comments

At a City Council Transportation Committee hearing today, the New York Police Department announced its opposition to legislation that would curb parking placard abuse by requiring barcodes on official placards. NYPD claimed that it has placard abuse under control and that only Police Commissioner Ray Kelly should have the power to determine what tools are […]

DOT’s Jamaica Plan: Unclog Queens Transit Hub With 1.4 Miles of Bus Lanes

By Noah Kazis | May 16, 2011 | 3 Comments

We missed these when they were first released in late March, but DOT has come out with its preliminary recommendations for improving bus service in downtown Jamaica [PDF]. The plan calls for adding roughly a mile and a half of new bus lanes and beefing up an equal amount of existing lanes. It would also […]

NYPD Still Won’t Ticket Their Own

By Ben Fried | May 4, 2011 | 39 Comments

With the release of Transportation Alternatives’ new report on parking placard abuse and the introduction of City Council Member Daniel Garodnick’s bill to add scannable bar codes to official placards, the push is on again to curb the flagrant exploitation of parking privileges. Despite the substantial reduction in official placards by the Bloomberg administration in […]

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