Clinton Hill, Fort Greene Street Cleaning Days Reduced
The Department of Sanitation has agreed to reduce street cleaning days in Commuinty District 2, most notably Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. Other parts of the district, like Brooklyn Heights, already have street cleaning only once a week on each side. “As a general rule, the commercial streets will continue to have street cleaning six…

The Department of Sanitation has agreed to reduce street cleaning days in Commuinty District 2, most notably Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. Other parts of the district, like Brooklyn Heights, already have street cleaning only once a week on each side. “As a general rule, the commercial streets will continue to have street cleaning six days a week and most of the residential streets will go down to once a week [on each side],” said District Manager Robert Perris. “We have brought this subject up a few times a year for the past several years and when [the Department of] Sanitation changed their operational schedule for CD6, we reiterated our prior requests, and have now received reduced frequency and reduced duration of street cleaning.” Councilwoman Letitia James told us about the change earlier this week. Some residents in her district previously had to move their cars four times a week. Sanitation spokeswoman Kathy Dawkins said the department agreed to the change because the district achieved a 90 percent cleanliness score for several years in a row. Perris said the affected streets will be announced at the June 11 monthly board meeting, and changes would happen this fall.
We lived between two places and the driver in our family lives in the other (non-NYC) location most of the time so our one car is registered there. The car is in Brookly an average of only a handful of days per month.
I wonder how this will impact us finding parking since people may be parked in for ages. But…as one poster wrote above, there patterns. I see a lot of coming and going during the day and evening so spots *do* open up.
I’m pissed all the time watching people parking in FG smack-dab in the middle of two spaces. They should tow those cars.
On our short block, sometimes there would be 2 and even 3 extra parking spaces if the parked cars were a little closer. Such inconsiderate parking the last couple of years.
I’ve noticed less hog-parking in PS, BH and on the UWS. Many nabes seem to have very closely parked cars, very tight wall of cars where you can’t slip through when walking across the street mid-block.
Is it something with FG where people feel they are empowered to park so they take up two spaces? Or are all nabes bad these days?
Since I sold my car, I have never gotten a parking ticket and the car I don’t own has never been towed.
I highly recommend this strategy to others.
Let’s see if I can help 5:19.
A. “…the lack of community involvement is criminal.” Please cite the statue and I will help go after the ‘criminals.’
B. “We should see if this is one of the ‘special projects’ that the City Council is being investigated about.” This project was not funded by the City Council.
C. “Where did the funding for this bogus report originate from?” The Department of Transportation receives most of its funding from the Mayor. The report was prepared by professional transportation planners, which calls into question how “bogus” it is.
D. “When was it presented? Who was notified first?” It was presented to Community Boards 2&3 in March. I cannot speak to notification.
E. “Who decided we need bike lanes so strict that there is no parking allowed?” Well, for one, parking is only restricted during certain times of the day. That said, the Department of Transportation decided. You know, the city agency that makes decisions about, well, transportation, including bike lanes.
Hope that helps.
The residents of my block are parking here, not workers down DeKalb for Tech. This is a misguided effort and the lack of community involvement is criminal. We should see if this is one of the “special projects” that the City Council is being investigated about. Where did the funding for this bogus report originate from? When was it presented? Who was notified first? Most of the time I see bicyclists riding outside of the established bike lanes anyhow. Who decided we need bike lanes so strict that there is no parking allowed?
The other issue with Fort Greene is that it’s so close to the pound that if you leave your car for two seconds, it’s toast. The tow guys just cruise back and forth and can haul in a huge number of cars in a relatively short time. I don’t know if they work by quotas or whatever, but blink in that neighborhood and you’re screwed.
Many, many of the parkers around DeKalb in FG are teachers from Brooklyn Tech, teachers from that elementary just beneath DeKalb (I think betw. Adelphi and Clermont), NYPD cadets who take classes at Brooklyn Tech, and people who work at Brooklyn Hospital. I lived on Washington Park for five years, and saw the parking patterns. On the weekends, it’s from people visiting Fort Greene park.
Therefore, resident parking permits would help *a lot*.
Is this the city’s sick way of making a profit off of the residents in Clinton Hill, since they will obviously be towing and giving out more summons as a result?
Is this the city”s sick way of making a profit off of the residents in Clinton Hill, since they will obviously be towing and giving out more summons as a result?
I am so HEATED right now. I just noticed the no parking sign on Dekalb Ave. Did anyone know this was coming? Was there a meeting about it? We barely had a place to park, before the sign was posted. Where are we supposed to park between 7am – 8:30am when the side street parking has a no standing from 8:30 -10am.
I moved into Brooklyn 7 years ago to get away from the madness of Manhattan. Now it seems everything is just spilling over… Grrrrr!!