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.
Parking Permit Proposal on Table [Brooklyn Heights Blog]
Mayor Rolls Out Resident Parking Permit Proposal [Brownstoner]
Pols, DOT: Parking Permit Program For Many ‘Hoods [Brownstoner]
Bxgrl — You won’t need visitor passes to park if you’re coming to BH to do some shopping or run into the library, only if you are leaving the car on a residential street for more than 90 minutes (or wahtever time frame is decided on).
Also, I think the law would give the city to only have the rules on weekedays or other specific times.
Finally, someone mentioned the idea of feeding the meter. Although it is common, I think technically it is illegal. Usually metered streets have a restriction on the length of time for which a car may be parked. (I live on such a metered street, and the limit is one hour on part of the block, and two hours on another part of the block.)
When you think of it that way, the permit system is just an extension of the same rules that already apply for commercial streets with meters — the base rule is that you can only park for a couple of hours, but if you actually live there, then (with the permit) you can park there for longer.
It’s also like the rule that a car can only park in any one location for up to 7 days (or something like that).
Well I hope you had fun raising rents and the prices of real estate like madmen. Now you have made the city unaffordable for the little guy. Now you complain that the city is trying to raise revenues and you don’t want to pay. Tough suck it up an pay.
If this gets passed, there will be an incredible uprising among the residents, merchants and employees of Brooklyn Heights. I feel sorry for the public officials and the BHA officials if this ever happens, they have no idea what will be heading their way. One thing is complaining about drivers and threatening them with this or that but to take away public curb parking and not replace it with anything is not going to fly in a democracy.
And as for those people who park and ride, so to speak. If they’re working, they pay taxes too. This whole idea of my neighborhood my rights is getting a little too police state for me. Visitor passes to park? Is this still a free country or not? Next we’ll have to have passes to walk through other neighborhoods because we take up room homeowners feel should be reserved for them first.
so long as a permit system is revenue-neutral or positive (i.e., the fees it generates are sufficient to at least cover the administration costs), i don’t understand why anyone without a car (such as myself) has a rooting interest in this. it’s just one group of polluters against another.
sorry to disagree, bkny. Your property taxes relate to your real estate, not your possessions. Streets are public property.
I think owning a car in NYC should be made illegal, everyone should ride a bike. If you are too old or infirm to ride a bike then you should be euthenized.
I’m a car owner and I support this idea. But the fee should be much higher than “nominal.” Not as high as a garage (since that has the value-added of being sheltered parking) but definitely approaching the cost of a garage. We should use this money–like congestion parking–to improve mass transit throughout the city, especially in the outer boroughs. And force people to register their cars in New York.
The CURRENT system provides a huge entitlement for car owners like me. I get to take up space on a city street absolutely free of charge. The city can and should extract a considerable price from people like me in exchange.
Out-of-towners can get temporary passes (as in cities like DC).
Yes exactly bkny! I live in Stuy Heights and see this all the time. People from other locales park in the area to be close to the A train at Utica. I especially love seeing them getting into their cars (with Virginia tags) after the leaving the subway after work.