The city issued 9,910 summonses on Monday — twice the daily average — to New Yorkers deemed in violation of alternate-side parking rules, which went back into effect for the first time in more than two weeks, according to the Police Department.
At an average fine of $55 per violation (the penalty is $65 in Manhattan’s central business district and $45 anywhere else), the city’s 24-hour haul could add up to a cool $500,000 or more.
That would be a small but significant step toward offsetting the more than $38 million spent by the city on clean-up costs during the Christmas weekend blizzard alone.
There are, of course, caveats. Some violators will most likely contest their summonses, and it could take months for the city to fully collect.
On a normal day — that is, one that does not follow a month’s worth of snow — the city issues 5,460 summonses for alternate-side violations, worth about $241,000 in fines, according to the Department of Finance.
The pile of tickets on Monday speaks to the difficulties experienced across the city as hapless drivers tried to pry out their cars from mountains of snow and ice that had not been touched in weeks. In interviews, many griped that they had been cut no slack, despite their vehicles’ being rendered immovable.
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Why don’t the people of New York stand together and “boycott” the cities attempts to steal from us and all agreeing to obey all parking and traffic rules.Is such a plan out of reach or will the city continue to steal from us this way?