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December 3, 2008

Parking Ticket Hot Spots

02ticket.jpgThere have been reports lately of highly attentive metermaids patrolling Brooklyn streets. Thanks to the NY Times' map of parking ticket hot spots, you can find where to fear them most: Brooklyn Heights, Downtown Brooklyn and East Flatbush. Watch out for Montague, Atlantic and Utica Avenue, folks.
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Posted by lisa at 9:44 AM | Comments (13)
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This is one of the most regressive, for want of a better name, tax policies in any city in the country, and Bloomberg should be condemned for it, as should every city council member who voted to end term limits for incumbents.

Posted by: PPSer at December 3, 2008 10:48 AM

This is just a start. I'm surprised that they aren't actually hiring more meter maids to really go at it!!!

Wait 'till you start getting tickets for having the Kohl's fliers out on your stoop!!!!!!

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at December 3, 2008 11:26 AM

"Wait 'till you start getting tickets for having the Kohl's fliers out on your stoop!!!!!!"

They should seriously ticket the stores who distribute these, especially if one has a "No Flyers Please" sign out.

Posted by: Biff Champion at December 3, 2008 11:29 AM

I have noticed the tow trucks are out in full force. Better think twice about letting your car stick out into that crosswalk.

Posted by: IMBY at December 3, 2008 12:08 PM

Wow, that is quite the map! Amazing amount of detail in it. I'd love to know how they did it.

How are parking tickets regressive? OK, the drivers couldn't afford (or be bothered with) a parking garage, but they can afford a car. I don't buy that the thousands of cars being ticketed in Midtown belong to the struggling lower class.

Lottery tickets are regressive, but not parking tickets.

Posted by: Brooklyn Chicken at December 3, 2008 12:27 PM

"Lottery tickets are regressive, but not parking tickets."

I agree 100%.

Posted by: Biff Champion at December 3, 2008 12:29 PM

not a parking ticket, but they shook me down for a moving violation this Sunday on 4th Ave. I was driving in the right lane and when I got to the Prospect Express way underpass, there two cops standing there, pulling people over. They told me that 4th and 17th street is a right turn only lane and that I had driven through it. if it is, that was news to me. of course, didn't stop them form giving me a $120 tik, and the cop was also a real dick, basically throwing it at me without any explanation.

i usually try to defend the cops b/c I know they have a hard job, dealing with all the maniacs that the rest of us run from. but when they're so clearly out there just trying to make a qouta at the end of the month, and then a so rude to top it off, I lose a lot of respect for them.

Posted by: oneasternparkway at December 3, 2008 12:50 PM

I've had enough fraudulent parking tickets in the last couple of years to not trust any Parking Enforcement Agents. Usually they're dismissed easily enough, but not always.

Posted by: Bob Marvin at December 3, 2008 4:59 PM

ticketing is on the up all over BK. and i'm now getting printed tickets here in clinton hill. nothing handwritten, all typed. it's new to me.

Posted by: werner at December 4, 2008 1:01 AM

In Brooklyn Heights and Park Slope when the meter maids see there is still time on the meter, they start checking registration and inspection stickers. In Crown Heights, instead of just waiting to give you a ticket, I've noticed (more than once now that I really think about it) the street cleaning truck waiting before alternate side starts with "parking" police right behind it. And about half a block farther back is the NYPD tow truck. Something else I've noticed: Alternate side is usually 1 1/2 hours. Some cars get 2 tickets. I know the cops can ticket you again after an hour, but I haven't really seen that enforced until lately. Be alert. The City is definitely shaking people down.

Posted by: i_heart_brooklyn at December 4, 2008 1:45 AM

Werner -

if you have NY plates, they can be scanned. Although scanning cuts down on the dismissal of tickets due to sloppiness, you can drive away from a cop handwriting a ticket - and an incomplete ticket will get dismissed. A scanned ticket on the other hand in just about instantaneous. Even if you drive away before it's given to you, you (or whomever the car is registered to) will get it in the mail.

On a different note, I heard from a city worker that people with out-of-state plates are getting stopped more. I guess if they can't scan the plates, they can still trump up a ticket charge.

Posted by: i_heart_brooklyn at December 4, 2008 1:52 AM

Easternparkway, they shouldn't have to tell you that it was a right turn only. Maybe you need driving lessons. Besides the sign before that intersection there that reads right turn only, there is this thing in the middle of the right lane, it's a big painted arrow pointing to a right turn. It's about 5 feet wide and 15 feet long. Whos' the dick?
Last parking ticket I got, I was just running in and out of a store and parked in a space where the meter had 5 minutes left on it. I thought I would be in and out. The traffic agent must have seen me park and run. When I got out he was standing there waiting for the meter to expire. By the time I made back to my car, he was scanning my registration. I Don't blame him, It was my fault for even thinking about sparing the 25 cents. That quarter cost me 50 bucks. Lesson learned.

Posted by: ou812 at December 4, 2008 10:20 AM

the cop was a dick, big painted arrow or not. why don't you go suck him off?

Posted by: oneasternparkway at December 4, 2008 2:30 PM

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