Neighbor Blocking Entrance Driveway
First off please pardon my Kindergarten visual drawing. So here is the deal. As you see from the picture, my neighbor has a huge commercial vehicle parked in his driveway. Recently they decided to park their 2nd car in front of their house (20ft wide), leaving more than enough space for their van to get…
First off please pardon my Kindergarten visual drawing. So here is the deal. As you see from the picture, my neighbor has a huge commercial vehicle parked in his driveway. Recently they decided to park their 2nd car in front of their house (20ft wide), leaving more than enough space for their van to get in and out with no issue. The problem is they gave so much space on their side, it leaves less space on my side. Majority of the cars that park right outside my house ends up parking very close to the entrance of my driveway, sometimes even blocking it. Anyone ever dealt with anything like this? Also does anyone know if you can park a commercial vehicle in a private residential driveway?
If your neighbor is parking in such a way that it doesn’t give you much room to park in front of YOUR OWN house, although not illegal, it’s just not courteous. And if a police officer sees your car in “someone’s” driveway, he won’t know it’s your own and can issue YOU a ticket for blocking said driveway. The best thing in this case is to continue to ask your neighbor to move up. Even if it takes many attempts. If you’re cool and calm and just constantly repeat yourself, it should “eventually” sink in. Wish you the best. I’m in a situation where my neighbor is blocking 1/2 of MY driveway with his many cars and minivans. Not being able to park his 2 or 3 cars in front of HIS own house he is spilling onto my driveway and making it impossible for me to get out without going to ring his bell, or tell him to move when I see him in the street or like the other day when a friend of theirs came to visit and THEY TOO blocked my driveway, this time totally, I had to lay on the horn to try to get the owners attention because I didn’t know who belonged to the car at the time. THIS is a BLATANT DISREGARD for someone else’s property as the person CLEARLY KNOWS they are IN someone else’s driveway. It’s an absolute disgrace how selfish people are and how miserably they treat their neighbors. And we wonder why entire countries can’t get along.
Ditto, dittoburg.
No one is breaking any laws here. Shoot. I can park my car in front of your house if I want. Before you start calling the cops on the guy blocking your curb cut, you might want to doublecheck that your curb cut is even legal. Often they aren’t.
I am having blocked-driveway problems myself (in Cobble Hill). I have started a discussion group to explore remedies; see
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blockeddrivewaysnyc
be nice to your neighbor and explain the situation. Use the argument, that you also can park car in front of your house a few feet into his side. This would make second car parked over his driveway and he probably will have really hard time getting his van out.
You neighbor is being rude but not breaking the law.Your gripe is with the people who block driveway.However have you spoken to your neighbor and expained how his actionsa reimpacting you?
How do they always get the same spot infront of thier house?
What area is this in?
My understanding is that only the city is allowed to paint in yellow or white on the street, but other colors are allowed. I agree that asking your neighbor to move up is the best solution though.
You could pull up bumper to bumper behind the neighbor’s car and hit the gas to push it forward to where he should have parked in the first place. Or, wait til the neighbor leaves and park on the street taking up both spaces in front of your houses. When that’s done, either get an unlimited metro card and stop driving, or get another car to drive while one car stays on the street protecting your access to the driveway.
Here’s some stuff from DOT
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/motorist/parktruck.shtml
Looks like you can’t park a commercial vehicle on the street more than 3 hours, but i didn’t see anything about parking in the driveway.
all that, graphics, drawing, posting and you could just ask your neighbor to pull their car up?
lbujitca – your Baltimore friend is my hero too!