Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking Placards

Garcia, Stringer Say they Will Fight Placards — But Both Presided Over Increases on Their Watch

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jun 18, 2021 | No Comments

Neither candidate's campaign responded regarding whether voters should be concerned about the growth in placard use in these candidates' offices.

Placard abuse is the root of all evil. Council candidate Lincoln Restler wants to do something about it.

Candidate Lincoln Restler: Let’s Abolish Placards Entirely

By Gersh Kuntzman | May 27, 2021 | No Comments

Want to fight placard abuse? Just get rid of the damn placards.

This is all you need to park illegally near the Brooklyn tow pound. Photo: Mars van Grunsven

Of All the Places: Placard Perps Park Wherever they Want Near the Tow Pound

By Mars van Grunsven | May 3, 2021 | No Comments

Who's towing the towers? Answer: no one.

Mayoral candidate Andrew Yang unveils a plan to crackdown on placard abuse. Photo: Julianne Cuba

Yang Unveils Placard Abuse Crackdown Plan as Adams Calls the Corruption a ‘New Paltz’ Issue

By Julianne Cuba | Apr 15, 2021 | No Comments

“Violent crime is skyrocketing in New York. Maybe parking is the big crime problem in New Paltz, but not in New York," said the campaign of the Brooklyn Borough President, one of the city's most notorious placard abusers.

Police employee-owned vehicles fill the bike lane on Schermerhorn Street in Downtown Brooklyn. File photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Brooklyn Candidate One-Ups Boss, Proposes Plan to End Illegal and Placard Parking

By Julianne Cuba | Mar 19, 2021 | No Comments

City Council candidate Elizabeth Adams wants to finish the job that her boss, Council Member Steven Levin, did not come close to finishing.

A Round and a Roundy: Solving Crime on the Subway — And Solving Placard Abuse, Too!

By Streetsblog | Feb 24, 2021 | No Comments

Leave it to a cartoonist — who plays with crayons all day — to come up with the answer to two key problems in New York City right now: subway crime and placard abuse.

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