Parking In Lower East Side May Get Even More Impossible

Ben Yakas / Gothamist

In a move that will drastically decrease the rate of success for the Bridge and Tunnel traps, Community Board 3 is considering expanding parking restrictions in the Lower East Side to cut back on noise and late-night traffic, the Post reports. The ordinance would "prohibit parking between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights," from Orchard Street to Essex Street, bounded by Broome Street up to East Houston.

While we're all for efforts to cut back on the honking that haunts our dreams and quickens our blood, won't less parking mean more jackasses circling the block? We hear that Brooklyn, with its ample parking, is the place to be these days: why not check that out instead?

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By Christopher Robbins in News on May 9, 2011 11:45 AM

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Rammy

Business owners and employees who drive in that nabe - pissed.
Actual residents who live above or next to the bars who own cars - pissed.
Residents who now have to listen to hordes of loud drunks yelling/whistling for a cab - pissed.Sounds like a real dumb idea.

randomtransplant

soo....NONE of the locals or business owners would like to keep their car on the street over night?

Judging by the way the hipster fucks at Cake Shop will vandalize a delivery bicycle parked within 30 ft of the entrence, I'd guess alot more of the "locals" are driving in than anybody wants to admit.

CB's need to shut the hell up. You can't solve the endemic, centuries-spanning LES population problem with a non binding PTA vote.

If these same people were lobbying their Councilmen for a congestion/traffic ban, you know as the LAW PROSCRIBES INSTEAD OF JUST WASTING THEIR GOD DAMN TIME NOT ATTENDING THE COMMUNITY GOVERNMENT BRANCHES WHICH ACTUALLY HAVE A MANDATE, I'd probably be supporting them.

Chris Malone

If you move to the lower east side, you know what you're getting yourself into. If you really want peace and quiet, move to the suburbs. Lord knows if you live in the east village, you can afford it.

All making parking illegal is down there is going to do is make the surrounding areas that much more congested and harder on anyone whose driving in to work in those areas with gear (musicians, entertainers, etc).

canofpeas

Just get into the city, dufus?

FallOut

" If you move to the lower east side, you know what you're getting yourself into."

Apparently, newbies like yourself don't have enough sense or wisdom to realize that people lived for years on the LES for generations and it was relatively quiet, until about a dozen years ago, when bars opened up to cater to B&T jerks, hipster douchebags, uptown Yuppies and NYU frat boys like yourself?

DOT will certainly change the parking at the request of CB3, and so newbies and transplants like yourself will have to return to your mothers' basement, if you want to party.

Good riddance.

Chris Malone

Was gonna write up a response, but I'd rather not waste my time.

As far as my credentials go, I've been playing music down on the lower east side for over a decade, and working in this city for the last 13 years. Never been a "frat boy" or a yuppie and have no plans of becoming one any time soon. Just like I've got no plans to stop playing music on the LES. As far as being a "newbie" (a term as dated as your argument)/transplant/whatever, I've lived in the NYC metro area for 20+ years and currently reside in south east queens.