Sunset Parkers Protest Street-Sweeping Regs
The Daily News looks into the war for the streets, Sunset Park-edition: “After battling the city for more than 30 years, Sunset Park drivers are furious the city has refused to slash their street cleaning regulations – even though two other Brooklyn neighborhoods have won reduced service, which makes it easier to find parking. ‘It’s…
The Daily News looks into the war for the streets, Sunset Park-edition: “After battling the city for more than 30 years, Sunset Park drivers are furious the city has refused to slash their street cleaning regulations – even though two other Brooklyn neighborhoods have won reduced service, which makes it easier to find parking. ‘It’s an issue of fairness,’ said Jeremy Laufer, district manager of Community Board 7. The board has been asking the city to cut back its street sweeping in residential areas from four times a week – twice on each side – to twice a week since 1978 to save drivers from having to constantly move their cars. Park Slope became a car owners’ dream last summer when the city Sanitation Department temporarily suspended all alternate side parking regulations there while changing all the signs and cutting the neighborhood’s street cleaning service to once a week on each side on most streets.” Sanitation says the new regs can’t be adopted in the neighborhood because its streets haven’t met the two-year “average cleanliness rating” that’s required.
Sunset Park Drivers Fuming Over Street Cleaning Regulations [Daily News]
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The streets are definitely dirtier in our neighborhood since the change in regs but really, it is much, much harder to find a parking place since the cars don’t have to churn as much. Some people must be roosting here with their vehicles. Bring on residential parking permits, I’ll pay my vig.
same goes for boerum hill, cobble hill, carroll gardens…only seems clean right after sweeper goes by.
But somehow the neighborhood car lobby (probably same ones wanting permits) got sweeping reduced . They’d rather have dirty streets then get off their duffs and move car.
i live in sunset park and i agree with the 2x a week cleaning. unless its a high traffic commercial area then the residential blocks only need it 2x a week!
Sunset Park needs frequent street cleaning. I’m there quite a lot and have yet to see clean streets except right when the sweeper goes by.
not sure the change is good for fort greene, already finding it harder to park than before, seems like people are storing the hood….
Apparently people there don’t clean up in front of their homes.