Jackson Heights City’s Parking Ticket Capital

A trip to Jackson Heights, Queens, will get you some great food, a colorful trinket – and likely, a parking ticket.

The neighborhood, along with adjacent East Elmhurst, is the parking ticket capital of New York, according to new numbers obtained by the Daily News.

More in the Extended Article.

“It’s horrible out here,” fumed Tony Fasano, 46, as he unloaded his Pepsi truck outside a restaurant on Broadway in Jackson Heights. “You get anywhere from four to five tickets a day.”

Cops and traffic agents have doled out a stunning 20,848 parking tickets in the 115th Precinct in Queens so far this year – the most of any precinct in the city.

Jackson Heights isn’t the only place where an astronomical number of parking tickets were handed out since January by the city’s roughly 2,800 traffic agents.

In the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Flatbush and Midland, the 70th Precinct issued 20,612 parking tickets between Jan. 1 and June 8.

Darren Mollo, a Flatbush-based chiropractor, said he’s gotten seven tickets in six months.

“I’ll be treating a patient, I’ll see the cops coming and stick my head out the window to say, ‘Give me a sec, and I’ll put a quarter in,’” Mollo said. “They don’t care. They write the ticket anyway.”

The situation is not much better in midtown Manhattan.

Traffic agents and officers from the Midtown South precinct have so far handed out 17,879 tickets, compared with the 5,458 tickets issued by 7th Precinct officers on the lower East Side.

Mark Rodriguez, 31, who manages Tasty Catering, a restaurant on Madison Ave. near 31st St., said he received three tickets last week, two in a day.

“They literally wait in front of the car, so if it’s 1:59 and the receipt says 2, [the cop] gives me the ticket one second after 2,” he added. “It’s a disaster.”

Despite the burden on some neighborhoods, the total number of tickets written in the city this year, 672,149, is down 13% compared with last year.

But the numbers could start to rise. Another 200 traffic agents started work last week.

How many parking tickets have been issued in your neighborhood this year? Check this list:

MANHATTAN
Precinct/Tickets

1/ 14,997
5/ 8,240
6/ 6,816
7/ 5,458
9/ 10,451
10/ 10,918
13/ 8,240
Midtown South/ 17,879
17/ 10,231
Midtown North/ 16,265
19/ 12,932
20/ 11,214
Central Park/ 2,070
23/ 5,507
24/ 10,730
25/ 7,969
26/ 8,907
28/ 13,907
30/ 6,727
32/ 12,959
33/ 12,148
34/ 9,239
40/ 12,177

BRONX

41/ 5,676
42/ 7,584
43/ 9,401
44/ 10,943
45/ 6,897
46/ 10,602
47/ 7,340
48/ 2,953
49/ 5,935
50/ 9,521
52/ 13,949

BROOKLYN

60/ 4,327
61/ 9,953
62/ 8,217
63/ 7,042
66/ 7,004
67/ 9,497
68/ 8,432
69/ 6,518
70/ 20,612
71/ 9,742
72/ 7,547
73/ 7,838
75/ 17,303
76/ 7,920
77/ 7,024
78/ 6,392
79/ 10,189
81/ 3,766
83/ 6,547
84/ 16,972
88/ 4,557
90/ 3,598
94/ 4,553

QUEENS

100/ 3,440
101/ 3,891
102/ 5,695
103/ 12,835
105/ 7,607
106/ 7,696
107/ 5,186
113/ 5,537
104/ 7,899
108/ 9,861
109/ 12,313
110/ 7,654
111/ 5,309
112/ 4,881
114/ 13,781
115/ 20,848

STATEN ISLAND

120/ 6,671
122/ 5,748
123/ 2,965