alternate_side.jpgThe 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.


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  1. 12:20 asks, “how can we choose” who would get a parking permit? A: If you register your car in a New York City neighborhood, you can get a permit for the area. Yes, that means both my landlord upstairs and I could get a permit, even though there is only room for one car in front of his building. No, you would not (legally) be able to sell a permit. However, with the death of congestion pricing, talk about residential parking permits is probably academic.

  2. Resident parking stickers might help a little, but there are so MANY residents, how can you choose? Seriously. Do you count frontage on a specific block? How do you count Co-ops or resident tenants? How about an absentee landlord? Can you sell an unused resident parking sticker? Can we just get a tax credit for parking garages? These new initiatives are important for the future of the city, but we can’t trample on existing residents in the meantime.

  3. Nice Zinka. Was there any discussion with the residents of DeKalb Ave? This is a largely residential area (although the report hilights only the couple of completely commercial blocks). Can you explain how residents will unload groceries, for example? Or do bikes trump all existing uses?

  4. The parking situation in Ft. Greene is out of control (let’s not even get into the whole towing thing). When I moved to the ‘hood six years ago spaces were easy to come by. About a year ago everything changed. Someone should do a study – is this a byproduct of gentrification?

  5. >>10:27, the new parking regulations and pending bike lane on DeKalb Avenue

    !0:36, was there any community input on the bike lane placement? Why is it on the opposite side of the street from the bike lane further down DeKalb? Is this just some pie in the sky idea that bypassed any discussion by people who live here?

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