Park It, Slope: Alternate-Side Regs Tossed 'Indefintely'
It’s good to be a Sloper. Especially, nowadays, one who owns a car. The Department of Transportation is suspending alternate side of the street parking in the neighborhood starting this Monday, according to a post on Gowanus Lounge. The suspension will be in effect “indefinitely” for the area from Pacific Street to 15th Street and…
It’s good to be a Sloper. Especially, nowadays, one who owns a car. The Department of Transportation is suspending alternate side of the street parking in the neighborhood starting this Monday, according to a post on Gowanus Lounge. The suspension will be in effect “indefinitely” for the area from Pacific Street to 15th Street and from 4th Avenue to the park, or until the DOT changes the neighborhood’s signs so they reflect new regulations that cut restricted parking periods down from three hours to 90 minutes. GL reports that similar suspensions are on tap for Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens and Red Hook. The big question right now, probably, is whether this is going to mean a very dirty summer for Park Slope curbs.
Alternate Side Parking Suspended in Park Slope [Gowanus Lounge]
Photo by redxdress.
I agree with 11:58. DOT should rethink suspending street-cleaning without PS resident permits. I don’t live in PS, but like others have pointed out, PS will become a parking lot over the summer. Plus, for people who actually use their cars, they’re going to end up driving around even longer to find a spot!
By the way, there are already many blocks in Red Hook where you can park your car permanently (I also know of one stretch near Washington Square of this sort, but I’m not telling). Of course, in RH, your car might disappear.
I don’t know why New York doesn’t implement residential parking permits like they do in San Francisco. The way it works is that if you do not live in the neighborhood and do not have a parking permit, you can only park for a limited time before you can be ticketed. It would make everyone happy, the city who would have the permit fees and the residents who are then able to park in their own neighborhoods, (well maybe not the visitors who want to park for hours)…
20 years experience says the only month PS streets are empty seems to be August. Parking eases when school ends for summer (less teachers, no more drop-offs and pick-ups) but gets more congested when all the college kids come home with their cars.
It’s a roulette game finding parking. It’s fate that says you get a space or not. Someone will pull out eventually. But when?
Some blocks (Montgomery Pl a prime example) have multi-car households who reserve their space by moving one car up to hold two spaces when they pull out in the other car. Very different than Sunset park where I’ve seen folding chairs used. Beware the retribution if you move that chair!
PS: Too many bumper guards. Too much vandalism and break-ins. Too little neighborliness. I don’t care what state your plates are – just don’t smash me when parking (especially you SUV drivers with high bumpers that miss those on cars and crush my headlight or fender – that’s just jackassery on the part of the “light truck” makers and bad drivers who really don’t need a soccer mom lumber hauling off road capable behemoth just to go to Trader Joes and Ikea on the weekend).
Hard to imagine there was no overnight parking allowed until some time in the 50s.
This would be awesome news if the city issued some sort of residential parking sticker. When I lived in Jersey City and Hoboken, parking was as bad, if not worse than, Park Slope because of constant construction and new buidings with driveways. There is very little of that in Park Slope.
Parking permits throughout the city would actually help people park close to where they live and get rid of all the out-of-state vehicles parked on my block
11:55 — slash my throat? take your meds psycho.
I’m not afraid of punk kids.
You shouldn’t be either.
*If I see people litter, I say something. Some people were raised like pigs and don’t seem to know right from wrong.
Try that with some of these young punk kids on the street late some afternoon or on the subway with punk kids or some of the Carter era crazies who are still roaming the streets. You will be the next news headline.
Your words are marked, 9:02. I absolutely agree with you.
This is terrible news. I was hoping for a drop on PS property values.