May 15, 2008
Park Slope Parking Reprieve Starts Next Week
Starting Monday, alternate-side-of-the-street parking will be suspended on residential streets in Park Slope until further notice. The parking reprieve is being granted while the city changes all the signage to reflect a big change in the alternate-side parking rules: On street cleaning days, the duration of the “No Parking” times will be cut from three hours to 90 minutes in Park Slope.
This also means that until all the new signs are in place – a job expected to take at least a couple months – the residential streets will be not be cleaned, though cleaning on commercial streets will still be maintained. And when the new rules go into effect, most residential streets will be cleaned one week instead of two, while commercial streets will get the treatment as often as six times per week, according to the Brooklyn Paper.
Residents of Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, and Red Hook will get the same deal later in the year. If you’re at all unsure over whether you’re in the Park Slope boundary, here’s an official map. And though the local community board is pleased about the changes, they still have yet to adequately address Park Slope’s stroller parking crisis. That's right, no mention of Park Slope is complete without throwing in a clichéd stroller jape.
Photo courtesy Wally G.
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if people would go outside with a broom and sweep up their 15 feet of sidewalk and gutter, we'd all be in great shape.
everyone knows those street sweepers do nothing but scatter trash and then smear the street with restaurant goop and whatever else it rolls over. they don't actually make anything cleaner. they're just a red herring that enables the city make $$$$$$$$$$ ticketing parked cars.
Furthermore, people shouldn't even own cars, because it makes them selfish and fat, and the streets should be grassed over for children to play on, and then the air in NYC would be pure and well populated with butterflies.
People have already started coming from adjacent areas to enjoy our liberal parking environment.
This is good news if you barely ever use your car, but horrible news if you use it regularly, as the parking landscape will be frozen in time as if cars were stuck to the asphalt with restaurant goo.
#2
street cleaners pick up 95% of the trash... i'd say that's a pretty good thing.
those street sweepers actually do clean the street. i've watched them in action & was surprised with the results. of course we wouldn't need them if people weren't such pigs.
#2 you are a pompous ass with a bloated opinion worth nothing.
This is a very misguided strategy to sign changing.
People from all over the city have become aware of the suspension and will warehouse their cars in Park Slope, making it nearly impossible for those of us (yes, fat and lazy yuppies) to use our cars. I use my car only for shopping and to visit out-of-the-city friends and family. Now, I will have an even bigger challenge legally parking my car when I return.
This should be done on a block-by-block basis, with suspension of parking regulations in effect for only as long as it take to replace each block's signs.
"street cleaners pick up 95% of the trash... i'd say that's a pretty good thing."
I used to live on a busy block that was never street-cleaned because of a police station on the other side of the street. Amazingly the street was not filthy even despite not being cleaned 4 times a week.
The whole street cleaning phenomenon is incredibly wasteful and is 100% about making $ for the city by ticketing cars that don't move. If they were so worried about cleaning things, don't you think they could run the street cleaners less often and maybe put some of that effort into cleaning subway stations or something. Have you seen how filthy the average subway station is??