Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking Placards

Brooklyn Pols Revive Proposal for Residential Permit Parking

By Ben Fried | May 18, 2009 | 16 Comments

On Friday, a trio of local electeds pushed for legislation that would allow New York City to create a residential permit parking system. The Daily News and NY1 picked up the story, and if those reports have you wondering about specifics, that’s because much of the plan has yet to be hammered out. An RPP […]

Eyes on the Street: A Monster on Court

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 5, 2009 | 32 Comments

The sheer size of this vehicle, which I encountered while walking down Court Street in Brooklyn the other day, was what made me stop and take a picture. As you can see, the traffic enforcement officer’s head basically just reaches the hood. (Makes you wonder what the driver’s visibility is.) Right, the traffic enforcement officer. […]

Weingarten Looks to Soothe Tension Over Placard Cuts

By Brad Aaron | Aug 28, 2008 | 24 Comments

Today is the first workday of the new year for city public school teachers, some 52,000 of whom have a little over a month to prepare for a commute without free parking privileges. As reported earlier this week, the city and the United Federation of Teachers have reached an agreement that will rescind all but […]

Bloomberg Relieves Council Mems of Reserved Parking as NYPD Rants

By Brad Aaron | Aug 14, 2008 | 13 Comments

Hours after yesterday’s Daily News broke the story of four City Council members having designated street parking near their offices, Mayor Bloomberg quashed the perk. Wrote Liz Benjamin on The Daily Politics: Bloomberg said he talked to DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan after reading about the free spaces in this morning’s DN and told her "we’ve […]

This Just In: NYPD Biggest Abusers of Placard Perk

By Brad Aaron | Jul 10, 2008 | 4 Comments

The Post is reporting today that a sweep against illegally parked placard-bearing vehicles has resulted in over 2,400 summonses, almost half of them issued to NYPD employees. Over the last three months, special teams of Internal Affairs officers have scoured congested streets in lower Manhattan and around government hubs in outer boroughs, searching for vehicles […]

NYPD Unions File Complaint Over Placard Cuts

By Brad Aaron | Jun 24, 2008 | 14 Comments

Taking a cue from New York’s Brightest, the five unions representing the city’s Finest have filed a complaint aimed at undermining city parking reforms by retaining free privileges for police officers, detectives, lieutenants and captains. The Post reports that the complaint "contend[s] the city was required to negotiate the new plan before yanking more than […]

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