Closing Bell: Windshield Spam Backfires
Here’s one thing we learned today: If you want people to vote for you, you might not want to put political fliers designed to look like parking tickets on their windshields. “Thank you for giving me a very clear favorite in this election – your opponent,” one South Slope resident wrote to Gothamist about Council…
Here’s one thing we learned today: If you want people to vote for you, you might not want to put political fliers designed to look like parking tickets on their windshields. “Thank you for giving me a very clear favorite in this election – your opponent,” one South Slope resident wrote to Gothamist about Council candidate Joe Nardiello’s marketing tactics. A Brooklyn Heights resident who emailed us was equally peeved — and surprised when he got the following email response from Nardiello:
What would you do? if the media is allowing our local pols to ‘stick a spigot in your back’… without featuring the story? Do you want a defender and a fighter of your rights — or not? I went straight to YOU. You would have simply received an annual bill, in the Spring if I’d not done this. Think twice. Your local government is plotting over the next few months to charge YOU and everyone that visits you, real $$ — which may amount to $400-500 per car owner. Everyone that visits you, will need a Temporary Residents Sticker, etc. I’m sorry to have shocked you, and clearly upset you. But, Squadron-Lander-DeBlasio have set the stage for a HUGE payday for the MTA on our backs, and ONLY our backs. The only person in NYC government that can stop this — is me. The choice is yours.
can someone tell me who to vote for in support of parking permits? would be SO GREAT to have them…
Residential parking permits have been around in Jersey City for years and seem to work great. They have a system where you can easily get a temp permit for visitors and it prevents the hoardes of people from the rest of Jersey from filling up all the street parking during the work week. The fee is, however, under $150 per year I think.
Another strategy is one used in the Fan in Richmond, Va. Parking in front of churches is allowed after 6 pm on weekdays. When there is something like a funeral after 6 pm, the church puts up signage to reserve the parking.
“But, Squadron-Lander-DeBlasio have set the stage for a HUGE payday for the MTA on our backs, and ONLY our backs. ”
That isn’t correct.
Don’t worry about the tickets to out of state people when they tow the cars they have to pay them all. Residential parking permits will make people register their cars here. All of NY City is a tow zone but they rarely tow non-alternate street parkers(and never for meter violations) but they do for almost everything else so people without permits can expect a trip to the pound..
“it seems half of NYC car owners are registered as residents of states that NYC doesn’t pursue parking tickets for ”
and how can i find out what states these are?
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I completely agree that the people who benefit most from this are those who like to stick it to to people they don’t know. It is a gated community mindset that has no place in brownstone Brooklyn. It will be nothing but a huge pain in the ass for the residents of the communities who will now need to keep in mind yet another piece of paper to pay for and keep current not to mention people who work rather than own property in the various hoods who wish to restrict their curbs to residents only. A really bad idea and a sinister one.
I find the connection between parking permits and a police state to be sort of strange.
On balance, parking permits are a positive.
If it costs $200 to park slope residents so they dont have to spend 1 hr driving around for a parking place everytime they use their car, I bet they will gladly spend the money.
As far as implementation, it should be connected to paying property taxes so owners get the spots every year when they pay taxes. Then, they are responsible for doling them out to tenants. It’s not a difficult system.
Residential parking permits would be great. Generally runs M-F from 8 or 9am until 5 or 6pm, with non-residents limited to two hours in the same spot. It would have an instant impact on all the NYers with NYC homes but out-of-state registration, and on neighborhoods whose parking spots are filled with non-resident commuters. Easy-to-use, easy-to-obtain visitor permit systems already exist in cities as different and diverse as Berkeley, CA, and Silver Spring, MD. Have you tried to park on the Upper West Side or Midtown Manhattan in the last few years? Bloomberg’s stealth campaign has already turned great swathes of NYC into hourly muni-metered parking running as late midnight, and fees increasing the *longer* you park.
it seems half of NYC car owners are registered as residents of states that NYC doesn’t pursue parking tickets for (because its too expensive). This will mean nothing to them.