Council Passes Bill To Change Alternate-Side Parking
If you are one of the New Yorkers who have to juggle alternate-side-of-the-street parking, this bill is for you.
City Council passed a measure Thursday that could mean one less day a week of having to move your car to facilitate street cleaning. Alternate-side parking regulations are currently used in 54 of the city’s 59 community districts.
Under the bill, if a community keeps its streets clean for two consecutive years and gets a 90 percent cleanliness grade, the local community board would have the option of reducing its street cleaning to once a week.
Councilman Brad Lander said the bill would relieve a tremendous burden from city residents. He said that for many people the parking regulations mean “organizing an enormous part of your life around moving your car and getting a parking spot.”
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn stressed Thursday that it was up to each community to make its own decision on the matter.
“We’re not saying to a neighborhood ‘you have to have less street cleaning and less alternative-side-of-the-street parking.’ We are saying you have that option,” Quinn said.
However, A number of council members think their communities would opt for cleaner streets rather than one day less of alternate side angst.
How about...
Keep alternate side parking, but put markings for each car so selfish people don’t take two parking spots.
yossel
and in crown heights its 3 times a week since we are very special and we love getting tickets and lets not forget that its also on our shabbos!! in germany they wont do it on shabbos but in CH its on shabbos!!
frustrated resident
I am just wondering why crown heights is one of the few place where we have alternate side parking four days a week and not two?
yoichy
Alternate side parking is a scam.Plain and simple.Who does it effect mostly? The middle class,right?The middle class is the class most hated by politicians in the City, especially democrats.The por have few cars and their votes can be easily “bought” by doing Sharptons bidding for example and he“ll ”get out the vote”, the rich get treated with kiddy gloves and the middle class gets shafted!
Time Bloomberg got lost!
nos
lol try getting crown heights that 90% cleanliness grade
a German
in Germany street cleaners clean around the cars. this alternate-side parking is happening probably onlu in America.
Purple
I dont think we have anyone in Crown Heights to fight for Crown Heights, as they do in Flatbush,Boro Park. The alternate side parking rules hae been 2 dyas in those neighborhoods for years. Who is fighting for the Crown Heights neighborhood?
To frustrated resident
Four days a week?? Try six days a week for us living on Eastern Pkwy, which means parking our car before Shabbos so that we don’t get ticketed on Shabbos. This would never fly in Williamsburg or Boro Park
brother from the hood
to number 3 ,,,,,it could have been 7 days if it was up to planing board 9 ..thanks to j. gold
yungerman
and yet the slobs of store owners and residents still leave trash everywhere.. no pride. and it shows.. so our streets will remain filthy even with daily street cleaning..
Yyb
who will grade the streets? Will the people who make money by cleaning them grade them also?
Toshav Hashcuna
Remember !
if you dont have Alternate sides in CH means , Kings county hospital workers and IRT train riders from Remsen villiage can park in crown heights for a full day free parking , you wont find parking by your house if you leave for a few hours
Alternate side means , “Workers from other neighborhoods can not park for free in crown heights on alternate side days which is good
#8
I totally agree especially when people from out of town come and they think u could park on shabbos (DUH) and then they get a ticket.