Brooklyn, NY – A Borough Park resident who was ticketed for double parking his car this morning is expressing frustration at the way parking regulations were handled in the city this morning.
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Alternate side of the street parking rules were in effect this morning at 8:30, the time when the parking requirements that allow for street cleaning began on 40th Street between 12th and 13th Avenues.
David Shor, who lives on the block in question, went outside and moved his car from the side of the street that was due to be cleaned and double parked it across the street, a courtesy generally allowed by the NYPD.
“I checked New York City Alternate Side Parking on Twitter to see if alternate side was in effect, figuring maybe it was suspended because of the snow,” Shor told VIN News. “The only tweet on their timeline was that alternate side rules were in effect.”
At 8:45 this morning NYC 311 tweeted that alternate side of the street parking was suspended for the day to facilitate snow removal. While Shor didn’t see the update from NYC 311, he saw an identical tweet issued by NYCASP at 8:56 AM. Understanding that he could be ticketed for double parking as alternate side parking regulations had been lifted, Shor went outside immediately only to see a police officer ticketing a neighbor’s car.
Video below, the NYPD traffic agent handing out the ticket to Shor.
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“I went over to ask her why she was ticketing the car if they had just announced that alternate side of the street parking had been lifted and I noticed that my car had already been ticketed,” said Shor.
The $115 parking violation notice on Shor’s windshield was dated 8:57 AM, just one minute after NYCASP announced the change in parking status throughout the city.
“When I asked her why she was giving tickets the police officer told me she had just gotten the dispatch that alternate side of the street parking had been suspended. I told her I didn’t get the dispatch but the minute they posted the change I came outside to move my car.”
Shor said he believes that some sort of leniency should be granted on blocks where alternate side of the street parking had already gone into effect for the day.
Councilman David G. Greenfield expressed his concern upon learning of the incident.
“It is outrageous and disappointing to hear that traffic agents were out in force in our community this morning issuing ‘gotcha’ tickets to unsuspecting motorists,” said Greenfield.
“We should be able to expect traffic agents to make reasonable accommodations and to provide a simply courtesy to the public during instances like this morning, when it was not clear which parking regulations were in effect due to the snowstorm.
I have reached out to the NYPD to register my dismay with this situation, and I urge anyone who received a ticket today to immediately contact my office for help appealing it.”
The Department of Transportation did not respond to VIN News’ request for comment on the matter.
Thank you Mr. Greenfield for taking care of those and other issues for us! I remember how he was working hard after Sandy regarding the Gas shortage.
He should fight this ticket with all of his coychus.
I never got it straight to begin with. Can someone double park during alternate side to begin with or not? It seems to be a given that you can double park. But I have seen tickets for double parking during alternate side too. So when yes when not?
20 days left for King Bloomberg to be gone
Remember the amazing zeal in enforcement.
Note the abject failure of enforcement on Nostrand Avenue 4-7 PM NO STANDING. It makes one wonder why small issues are ticketed in Jewish neighborhoods while serious, NO STANDING is ignored in other areas.
Boro Park, listen up!! Over here in the boondocks in most of Marine Park there is NO ALTERNATE SIDE PARKING!!!
That’s because we are all required to clean in front of our homes up to and including the gutter facing the house. Just offer to do so and change the entire system as you know it. Go for it!!! Save money time and aggravation!!!
I love the table cloth
I don’t understand how double parking is ever allowed. It slows down the traffic that has to get around the double-parked cars, and it blocks in some people who may not want to be blocked.
The city is robbing us . Recently I had to be at the bedside of a family member on life support in a manhattan hospital. I rushed in fromm Pa. and parked and paid the meter machine. I was totaly distracted and didnt notice the sign stating after 3pm no parking. I got a 115 ticket. I sent a letter signed by the head doctor stating the situation. The city added to the fine because you are suposed to pay then wait for their decision and hope to get paid back . I realy had rachmonos onthe person this past erev shabbos when I came out of mikva he was looking at a ticket I asked what it was for . He drove a wide SUV and the meter cop decided he was to far into the street the only thing he could have done was park on the curb to avoid sticking out but then he would have gotten a ticket for parking on the curb . Its time to start a grass roots protest . Anyone with ideas please post as it is major corruption and is only going to get worse as the city is in big debt. We need serious ideas lets start here and now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Councilman Greenfield’s office has also been made aware of the new outrageous phenomenon in Boro Park with TLC police stopping cars that have passengers and accusing the driver of being an illegal car service! The TLC police LIE thru the teeth just to ticket someone.
TODAY my son was driving a RENTED (1 day) car from BP to Willy and had two passengers in the back. On McDonalds & FT H. PKWAY he was stopped by TLC police. Since the driver (my son) did not know the name of the passengers, the following happened:
1. The policeman IMPOUNDED the [rental] car! (He drove it away. Hope the gps tracker will inform us of all the stops he made.)
2. He lied that he SAW the passenger(s) being dropped off and pay a fare!
3. Also many other outright lies written by the cop.
In order to pick up the car, he needs to go to Queens, pay close to $1000.00! to get a release slip for the vehicle with additional charges of about $250. per day!
Councilman Greenfield’s office says that a few cases of this travesty happened today and that the councilman is on the case.
Hashem Yazor!
who EXACTLY do we ask to get rid of all alternate side restrictions and promise to clean the streets ourselves? and I promise that nobody in marine park does anything, the whole street sweeper thing is a fraud to begin with and if cars are always parked on the street how much garbage can actually accumulate in 6 days underneath them. remember that leaves only fall in AUTUMN. marine park got away with murder the city will never let boropark and flatbush get out of it because it means millions of dollars lost.
Regarding the unofficial rules of double parking when alternate side is in effect, double parking is allowed as long as there’s no school or bus route, any school or bus route street/block, is not eligible for this privilege…
Double parking is a courtesy by DOT headquarters…They decide which area they allow to double park as a COURTESY….its not permitted but its looked away.
Now i am sure Mr. Greenfield can get most of those tickets dismissed as a courtesy but if politicians push over the bridge those courtesy can be changed…lets hope for the best and appreciate what we have for now..
what happens to legally parked people who are blocked by “double parking” people and can not get their cars out ?
all started under bloomberg reign of fear…hopefully di Blasio is better…although unlikely
They don’t give enough tickets in BP. Tell me in which state, municipality, city, that you have ever visited is the 13th ave or ave J, ave m double parking situation tolerated as in BP.
Which other large ethnic group has such exclusive rights to Park on sidewalks, bus stops, fire hydrants by their own private organizaions service members without reprecussion.
Given the above, the “influence tank” by our local politicians is empty. Anything more would be considered outright favortism.
Double parking is never allowed, it is a curtesy for street cleaning but is not a law or a mandatory “freebie” from a ticket. He deserved it since he broke the rules of the road.
All I can add to all this after having lived in boropark and Flatbush is that the cops in boropark go around with sticks and metal detectors checking people’s garbage to see if the recycling and regular garbage are mixed, whereas in Flatbush nothing of the sort happens. Total anti hassidic behavior.
the agents r under pressure to ticket
The entire system is gotcha. They want your $$$ period. It’s another way of taxing us. Except of course the officers themselves which are immune bc they are better then everyone else.
I live on a mixed commercial / residential block in bp One night I park my car in a legal parking space The next morning about 930 I went to move my car and found out the DOT put a no stndng sign and I got a ticket I wrote a letter but the judge wrote I have to prove when the sign was put up. In the end I had to pay 95 + 10 . Then the very next week across the street from me Dot replaced some missing signs one sign was also no parking about 5 cars who were parked before the sign change got tickets.
the fact remains, he double parked, he got what he deserved. i would have towed his car. not only for double parking but for double parking in a snow storm.
if dot would change the times of alternate regulations so that streets & avenues don’t share the same hours, parking capacity would only be reduced by 25% rather than 50% currently, thus eliminating the need for any unwanted courtesy & aggravation.
People who claim that the police are playing a game of “gotcha” never consider the impact that their illegal behavior, whatever it is they were charged with, could have had on other taxpayers or, worse, innocent by-standers who might get hurt. Families who have had loved ones injured by just crossing a street have no complaints with red light cameras. Merchants who want parking for their customers see no problem with strict enforcement of parking regulations designed to prevent people from taking a space for more than 2 or 4 hours. And I’ve always like the no-double-parking rule when I’m the guy in the inside spot who can’t get out and must wait for the person in the double-parked car to return from his errands. The laws are about safety, economics, and common courtesy — don’t blame the accusor when you get caught. Don’t give them a reason to give you a ticket.
My friend who has a store in BP, has some employees that live in Harlem and Bronx.
Once a new employee from Harlem who drove to bp and parked at a pump, found [at lunch time] he had been ticketed. He flew into a rage, shouting and screaming and waving the ticket, that (What king of neighborhood is this???) in HIS neighborhood this WOULD NEVER HAPPEN!!!