City residents may soon get the exclusive right to park on the streets where they live.
After years of false starts, state and city legislators are seriously looking at a plan to establish residential parking permits in the Big Apple.
Drivers who live in designated neighborhoods and pay for a permit would be the only ones allowed to park in 80 percent of the spots.
The latest push came after Brooklyn residents began complaining that people attending events at the Barclays Center in Prospect Heights, which is set to open next year, would monopolize most of the parking spaces in their neighborhood.
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I would love to see some sort of enforcement, enabling parking for residents on a block. However, unfortunately there are those who’ll always find a way to abuse their neighbors. We’re living here for 30 years, the population has changed substantially, and our newer neighbors are severely abusive. Personally, our shared driveway neighbor created a situation in which we finally both agreed not to use the driveway. However, he also built an unauthorized port, insists on using it, and carries on/calls police when its blocked. In addition many of the newer neighbors have similarly built unauthorized ports, and carry on when someone else blocks it, whether they are in or out. If neighbors report the abuse, they go and scream to community Rabbonim, MESIRAH thus tying our hands. Additionally the newer population has added several synagogues/with party rooms-B”H for simchos in Klal Yisroel-but what of the rights of the residents. I may add that these party rooms are often used during the daytime, and both day and night with valet parking thus causing problems for us old residents at all hours of the day and night. HELP!
Don’t count on it. They do that in London and sell permits and it is based on the Co2 of the car and each and every year goes higher and higher but you still have to try to find a space. It is just another tax
This will not apply to Flatbush, BP & Willy. It basically means that if you’re rich and live in a rich neighborhood you can make your neighborhood even more exclusive by limiting who can park there. It’s just another way the Bloomberg Administration is showing his utter contempt for the poor little guy who dares to want to drive a car rather than using mass transit or riding a bike. I can’t wait until his arrogance the Mayor is finally out of office.