Off Street Parking
I have a question regarding in off street parking The houses concerned are 289 and 293 16th St, in Park Slope. They both have the same thing going on. I’ll post the second picture on the next thread (maybe Mr B can squeeze them both in without distorting the scale) From the photo you can…
I have a question regarding in off street parking
The houses concerned are 289 and 293 16th St, in Park Slope. They both have the same thing going on. I’ll post the second picture on the next thread (maybe Mr B can squeeze them both in without distorting the scale)
From the photo you can see that the curb has been cut way. I know there is some sort of Grand Fathering with this feature
The actual part of the curb which is street level (were a car could pull into the house) is probably 3 ft wide. The part that is painted is probably 5 ft wide.
They are obviously serous about not parking due to the professional “No Parking” sign that’s only recognizable if you’re walking on the sidewalk
These are my questions
Is this legal?
If it is, then how can a 3 ft wide “driveway” be legal
If the 3 ft wide “driveway” is legal, is the 2 ft either side legal.
How do I find out if any of this is legal
If this is legal, who to I contact as to the ridiculousness of it all
They are three houses down from each other. That coupled with the fact that there is a fire hydrant involved, they “reserve” a bunch of space.
What to do………….
The illegal curb cuts really are a double hit for the people pulling them off from the rest of us. The off-street, and generally ugly and out of context parking space, and then the remaining one on the street that everyone else is afraid to use. There is a former KoC hall on Hoyt between 2nd and 3rd where the over-under on this deal is about 6 parking spaces, all of them look questionable. I’m thinking of hitting 311 just to make sure.
4:08 and 4:11 are spot-on, I reckon. If you go to Google maps and plug in, in turn, the addresses of the two properties cited by the OP and zoom in, you will see that these cuts are precisely at the points where the sidewalks of Webster are on the other side of 16th. I’m sure glad, given that fact, that I didn’t weigh in on this particular post with the venom and vitriol that I harbor in my heart for those who actually do create their own illegal private parking spaces.
My husband has an old car that he rarely drives. It is usually parked in front of our home. Where is the crime? In Kensington most driveways, although not original to the houses, were installed at some time in the 30’s and 40’s to accomodate vehicles that were much smaller than the vehicles that are driven today. So what is wrong with legally widening the driveway. I rarely see anyone parking a vehicle in the street in front of their own driveways anyway. This usually prevents your neighbors on the opposite side of the street from manuevering into their driveway. As for the dumpsters, should they put them in front of your house?
I want to let you in on something. I beat a $165 ticket for parking in a new unmarked wheelchair ramp where there was no stop light, no stop sign and, most important no wheelchair ramp at the curb opposite the one cited on the ticket. I also pointed out the idiocy of the ramp at that location in as much as there was no reason for pedestrian traffic. The ramp fronted on a 400 foot wall.
Some time later I confronted Mrs. Schumer, then Transportation Commissioner, at a public hearing about this. She suggested these tix were of dubious legality. You can guess the rest. All these ramps are now accompanied by NO STANDING ANYTIME signs. The bureaucracy hates to be confronted.
i have a cool idea. just go out at 2am and spray-paint an off-white or grey to match the sidewalk color. paint over every “no parking” mark or lines they made. then you can go and paint over it every night if they try to re-paint it. also during this time call the DOB so that an inspector catches them vandalizing the sidewalk as they paint their no parking messages on it. you could also just hire a gas or electric company to come out and dig up their sidewalk to “fix” pipes underneath it or something. then when they walk out of their house there’s a huge pit with workmen. then call the DOB on them. i have even more ideas but i’m gonna save them for later.
I live over in Kensington and a couple of variations on the theme happen here; one move is to extend the old 5′ drive ways to make room enough to park an addition car on the street with one in the “driveway”. The other is when a reno is done during the demo phase the dumpster is parked to hide the driveway, the side walk is broken up and when it is restored “ta da” a New or a New and Improved drive appears. Usually home owners of a certain religion.
A couple of home owners keep old cars that are never driven off the block in spots in front of their houses to keep people from parking in “their” spots. One has a big truck and will take his best shot at your bumber with his truck if your park too close to his DIY painted drive way.
Enforcement is a joke! These home owner are adding the cost of the fine(s) into the mortage.
OMG I still remember 10th st below 6th ave which has a fortress-like spray painted frontage and watches the spot outside their home business like a hawk. If you dare to park there this couple comes out and berates you with a very nasty attitude from the word go: “we already called the cops. You car will be towed”. Blah blah. They’ve painted the curb way beyond a small curb cut, space for two cars.
They insinuated that if I didn’t move the car it “might get damaged”.
Nasty pieces of work.
And I was a neighbor, living one block over!
I guess the real question to the OP is do actually see anyone parking here? Better yet, do you see the owner/resident of either of these addresses parking here?
Hmmm, as a recepient of a whopping $165 ticket for parking in a newly created pedestrian ramp, I think 10:07, 4:08 and 4:11 may be on to something. Brooklynnative points out, “no light, no stop sign, no paint nothing,” but there were none of those things where I got my ticket. If the curb cut lines up with the sidewalk on the street that T into 16th Street, this is probably for pedestrian mobility. Damn, and we were having such fun with 10:37 (and vice versa).