How Will the Great Slope Parking Experiment Play Out?
A headline in today’s Times: “New Parking Rules Receive a Wary Welcome.” A headline in today’s Daily News: “Joy Spreads in Park Slope as Hated Alternate-Side Parking to be Halted.” But what do you think? Alt-Side Hiatus: Terrif or Trashy? ( polls) Photo by charles.hope.
A headline in today’s Times: “New Parking Rules Receive a Wary Welcome.” A headline in today’s Daily News: “Joy Spreads in Park Slope as Hated Alternate-Side Parking to be Halted.” But what do you think?
Photo by charles.hope.
if you think park slope is all there is to brooklyn then you live under a rock
We here in the South Slope have had 1 cleaning per week for 10 years now and our streets are pretty darn clean.
/don’t own a car
//never have
///zipcar, baby
Brooklyn smells like crap anyway. At least now it”ll be more visible.
Simple 3:37…they’re bitter because they don’t own a car.
as a semi-recent transplant to brooklyn from manhattan, i feel like i have to comment on the issue of car ownership.
i lived in manhattan for ~15 years, never owned a car, and never wanted one. but many areas of brooklyn, including mine, are simply *not* well served by public transportation for anything other than commuting back and forth to manhattan. many parts of brooklyn do not have decent local grocery stores anymore. residents have to go far afield to shop (especially if they want something revolutionary like, say, fresh vegetables), and it’s really just not feasible to haul a week’s worth of groceries onto a bus, then walk ten blocks home, while everything you bought melts and spoils.
i tried hard not to buy a car – but then i spent 6 months renting a car almost every weekend. so i bought a prius, and i park it on the street (with all the rigamarole that entails), and i pay for the privilege in a hundred different way. it would be great if i didn’t need a car – but it just doesn’t work. so for those of you who think every part of brooklyn is a no-cars-required paradise – you need to get out more.
3:29 — tsk tsk. why so bitter? there’s many things we take for granted that aren’t spelled out in the Constitution — like right to privacy, right to reproductive freedom, right to choose who we want to marry etc. So don’t try to act all constitutional scholar, because you end up looking like a bone head.
The anti-car owner talk on here is absolutely ridiculous. I may not use my car every day, but it is an absolute godsend for many things and completely changes my experience of living in this city. It allows me to actually get away from it when I want. Please come off your pedestals.
While I’m concerned as to the absence of the sweepers, I do believe that many blocks in the slope are known for their strong ties as neighbors. I know that my block (Park Place between 6th and 7th) will remain clean because of the will of those who live there.
Why do people from red states need to read a blog about Brooklyn? Could it be because no one gives a rats ass what happens in your dirt poor hillbilly flyover state?
I also don’t think I’ve ever seen the phrase “right to own a car and park anywhere” in the Constitution, which is still the guide we use as to what is a ‘right’ in THIS country. But since this is what Park Slope wants so bad I’ll just leave my diesel Dodge Ram mega cab idling on their streets so I can keep my block clean and quiet.
doesn’t park slope (like most historical districts – heights/cobble hill etc) already only have 1 day a week per side for street cleaning? it’s just going from 30 hrs to 90 min. it just means that people won’t have to double park their car for as long during the time they’re not allowed to park.