Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking Placards

Parking placards are the root of all evil, but regular people illegally park, too.

IDLE COMPLAINT: DOT Opposes Bill To Let Citizens Report Placard Abuse — Fearing Violence

By Julianne Cuba | Jan 12, 2021 | No Comments

DOT Commissioner Margaret Forgione said she's afraid of violence — even though Council Member Steve Levin's bill is based on an existing city anti-idling program.

A Round and a Roundy: Parking? Lots — If You’re a Cop

By Streetsblog | Jan 12, 2021 | No Comments

Just as everything looks like a nail to a hammer, everything looks like parking to a cop.

The double-whammy: Parked on the sidewalk and in the bike lane. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

They Didn’t Get the Memo (Actually, They Did — They’re Just Ignoring It)

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 8, 2021 | No Comments

One day after top NYPD brass reminded rank-and-file cops that it is illegal and dangerous to park in bike lanes, bus lanes on curbs and in other places that normal people know are illegal and dangerous places to park, cops are still, well, you know.

NYPD to NYPD: Stop Breaking Parking Laws!

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 6, 2021 | No Comments

Reminder to NYPD officers: All that illegal and unsafe parking you're doing is illegal and unsafe.

A Correction officer was selling fake handicapped parking permits, authorities say. File photo: David Meyer

CITY HAUL: Four Corrections Officers Busted — And Suspended — in Fake Placard Scam

By Gersh Kuntzman | Dec 8, 2020 | No Comments

What's a lifetime of free parking apparently worth? Less than $300.

The Jeep of a Kings County District Attorney detective parked illegally on Adams Street. Photo: Julianne Cuba

‘Honest Mistake’? Brooklyn DA Detective Offers Poor Excuse for the Kind of Illegal Parking that Kills Cyclists

By Julianne Cuba | Nov 23, 2020 | No Comments

Of all the people to park in a bike lane!

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