Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking Placards

Streetfilms: Excuses

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 28, 2008 | 6 Comments

Streetfilms’ Clarence Eckerson was walking around Manhattan one day last summer feeling what he describes as "a little sympathy for what it must be like to be a ticket writer in this town." He turned on his ever-present video camera and began shooting illegally parked cars and the variety of placards, badges and hand-scrawled notes […]

God Said, “Let There Be Parking Placards.” And It Was So.

By Ben Fried | Feb 27, 2008 | 17 Comments

Only three days remain until 20 percent of government parking placards must be surrendered, but as Gridlock Sam wrote here last month, that should be just the beginning of placard reform. Case in point: Uncivil Servants featured a story last week of an Upper East Side synagogue that manufactures its own bogus placards while the […]

Free Parking Addicts Resort to Placard Smash-and-Grabs

By Brad Aaron | Feb 11, 2008 | 14 Comments

The New York Post believes a rash of car break-ins in Washington Heights and the Bronx may be related to the recent Bloomberg administration parking placard crackdown. Thieves desperate for highly coveted city parking permits have gone on a window-smashing spree in The Bronx and Washington Heights, breaking into at least 10 firefighters’ cars and […]

Badda Bing! NYPD “Taking Care of” New Parking Placards

By Jason Varone | Jan 30, 2008 | 11 Comments

A commenter on Uncivilservants.org noticed that Mayor Bloomberg’s attempt to reign in parking permit abuse is already being met with some good old-fashioned NYPD blowback: Posted on Fri, Jan 25 2008 at 10:49 PM Found on the Rant: "The new placards are slowly circulating to individual mos and all that has changed is the addition […]

Motorists Dominate UES Parking Workshop

By Brad Aaron | Jan 24, 2008 | 16 Comments

Streetsblog commenter BicyclesOnly attended last night’s DOT neighborhood parking workshop at Temple Israel on E. 75th St. Here is his account (originally posted here): I think I was the only one present (some young and idealistic-looking DoT staff excepted) who did not own a car. I heard so many bad arguments for bad policy that […]

Gridlock Sam: Mayor’s Placard Reduction Plan is Step One of Ten

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 18, 2008 | 15 Comments

The following was contributed by Samuel I. Schwartz, AKA Gridlock Sam. Mayor Bloomberg correctly recognizes that reining in city workers’ parking privileges is a pre-requisite to congestion pricing. But his goal of 20 percent is too modest, and he should know it’s easier to do than it looks. Believe me I know; I led the […]

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