Residential Parking Permits Pushed for Brooklyn Heights
Various State and City politicians joined forces on Friday to announce their commitment to bringing residential permit parking to Brooklyn Heights. Under a program supported by State Senator Daniel Squadron, Assemblywoman Joan Millman and Council Member David Yassky, neighborhood residents would be able to purchase an annual permit for a “nominal” fee that would allow…
Various State and City politicians joined forces on Friday to announce their commitment to bringing residential permit parking to Brooklyn Heights. Under a program supported by State Senator Daniel Squadron, Assemblywoman Joan Millman and Council Member David Yassky, neighborhood residents would be able to purchase an annual permit for a “nominal” fee that would allow them to park on residential streets; metered parking would still be available to the general public on the major commercial streets. This plan is a classic win-win-win: it protects the community, it cuts congestion, and it provides revenue for public transit, said Squadron. For years, I have supported a residential permit parking plan for New York City, said Yassky in a press release. The plan announced today will reduce congestion and illegal parking in our neighborhoods, and improve the quality of life for our residents. I continue to fully support that effort.
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I hope you’re being sarcastic witchdoctor. If not I’ll remind you that the landed “gentry” lives in England, not here in the US, and that many an “aristocratic” head has fallen in the course of history to our torches and pitchforks. Perhaps you’d be happier in a place like, oh I don’t know….Medieval France?
if it is good enough for those in brooklyn heights it is good enough for those/me in fort greene/clinton hill. i am all for the idea! residents who OWN should be first in line.
The rich have their parking needs taken care of in Brooklyn Heights. What do they care what happens to you, our your out-of-town guests, or your rental car, or your visiting nurse service? The old WASPS believe in tough love, especilally to non-old-WASPS. I lived in the Heights for years, the rich there are pretty difficult to deal with. I would not be surprised if they push through an ordinance prohibiting apartment dwellers from owning or having cars in the neighborhood.
The government cannot kow-tow to these snobs and dingbats. Shame on the councilmembers who are listening to the impractical ideas of the elitists.
We need more city parking downtown. stop blaming the public for the fault of the planners and the politicians.
nortsloperenter:exactly what I mean about headache and bureaucracy. Imagine dealing with a DMV type place every time guest comes or rent or heaven forbid move to different neighborhood. Step up, wait on line forever, take a day off from work, because busybodies like Joann Simon in boerum hill says keep your cars off my precious landmarked block.
The real problem with parking in Brooklyn Heights is not the park-and-ride but the city vehicles with parking placards that hog lots of spaces (both residential streets and meter spots) and use the streets as personal parking lots for the various govt/court offices in downtown. The politicians can’t come out and alienate the police department, so they blame the commuters. If the placard holders can ignore RPP as much as they do the existing street rules, this will have little effect.
There’s a serious shortage of private garage space in BH so to say “just go pay to park in a garage if you want a space” doesn’t really help. On the other hand, the idea that the streets of BH will be empty on the weekends when everyone goes to the hamptons or to wherever else you folks seems to think the entire neighborhood decamps doesn’t really hold up, since the truly rich folks who actually do go to these places have secured their private parking long ago and certainly don’t park on the street. You’d be surprised how many townhouses have parking in side yards, etc. People who park on the street generally don’t own homes all over the world.
Boerum resident- I do understand that. I just don’t think that, for instance I have guests and they find parking outside my house, that they should have to move their car after an hour and a half or 2 because of resident parking. I don’t think we should be making a policy of creating virtual gated communities with public streets by giving residents with cars more rights to them than any other resident of NYC.
These three stooges should get back to working on another go at Congestion Pricing, instead of wasting time with a stupid idea such as residential permits for a single neighborhood.
I live and work in Brooklyn Heights, and cannot imagine how permits would make parking any easier here. The contention that people park here in the morning and catch the 2 train to work is simply false. There is no parking to be found.
Streets are public to the entire city and should be kept that way.
“here’s how DC handles some of the issues mentioned earlier:
resident parking, visitor parking, rental car parking, healthcare provider parking…
http://dmv.dc.gov/serv/parking.shtm”
OMG that is awful. They make you go to the DMV every stinking time you rent a car, and you have to go after you rent the vehicle.
Talk about cruel and unusual punishment.
Not to mention I frequently pick up cars after 5:00pm on Friday and return them before 9:00am on Monday (and am out of town from Sat. morning to Sun. night), it would be impossible for me to get to the DMV even if I decided I hated life enough to do so.
BTW most states have a law that if you drive the car continuously in the state for 30 days in a row it has to be registered in that state. I know MD has such a law and the cops watch who is driving to DC from the “brubs.” They write down the license plates of out of stater and if they see it for more than 30 days they will stop you and ticket you!
If you go to NJ EVERY city along the Hudson has some form of residential parking. Even in NY many cities have it. The only reason that NY City doesn’t have the power to do it if they want to is that the City of Albany wants to do it and the legislature(for themselves and their staff) have not wanted it.
Also I want to thank everyone for having a respectful discussion of the issue both pro and con.