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There is a chance that I will need to purchase a car for work. I'd like to avoid the cost of garage parking (also, I'm assuming the two near me don't have availability anyway), so I'd most likely park on the street. Any advice/insight from those that are in the same situation?
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I think that I've gotten a ticket every time that I've rented a car for more than two days... pain in the ass... but, like most pains in the ass, I guess that you get used to it. If it's a work vehicle, can't parking be expensed or at least written off (assuming you find a vacancy)?...not that there's anything wrong with that.
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Letterman's Top 10 responses to your question: 10 ) Buy a Smart Car and park anywhere. Or a Mini Cooper, look much cooler, and park nearly anywhere. And, they can't pick that one up and walk off with it. 9 ) Feel free to attach your own woo-WOO~! version of a South African vuvuzela soccer match horn ( yup, there's an app for that! ). 8 ) Get a lock on your gas tank if you don't like things that go *BOOM* 7 ) Paint it up like a knife-sharpening truck and you can double-park anywhere. And ring a bell like a crazy man, just for kicks. 6 ) Paint it yellow with the words HOT BIRD in black and you will be the most popular car on the block. 5 ) First rule of ASS: there is no 5-minute grace period for ASS 4 ) Feel free to make jokes about aforementioned ASS (argy-bargy!) 3 ) Do not admit any of this to any of your friends that have bikes or read http://www.transportationalternatives.com or http://www.streetsblog.com . 2 ) If you end up getting a pink Hummer, by all means, please share it 1 ) There will soon to be plenty of parking between Pacific and Atlantic. And as for a serious answer: 1 ) Make sure it has a pull-out (faceplate) stereo 2 ) Leave no indication (not even velcro) if you own a GPS unit 3) As for parking, feel free to embrace ASS best practices.i extend my battery life by turning down the brightness
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I have lived in Prospect Heights for 20 years and have always owned a car. It has never been broken into. As far as parking goes, it is difficult to find spaces at night. However, if you are around during the day, and can move it when alternate side of the street parking regulations are in effect, it isn't a problem.
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photogirl » I have lived in Prospect Heights for 20 years and have always owned a car. It has never been broken into. As far as parking goes, it is difficult to find spaces at night. However, if you are around during the day, and can move it when alternate side of the street parking regulations are in effect, it isn't a problem.
in other words, you are boned when you get back from work. To own a car and be able to park it in your area, you need to be unemployed or work from home lol -
First the only day we do not have ASS parking is on Wednesday. If you plan on getting home after 8:00 it might be hard to find a spot close to home and you may have to park a block or so away). Make sure you get a club device (preferably one with a airbag cover). If you are getting a brand new car be prepared to have the bumpers scratched up from other cars on the street. I highly recommend getting full glass replacement as part of your insurance. It has happened twice already where someone has walked down one side of the street and randomly broke windows on the cars. Last - never leave anything in there that might even look like it is of value.
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When I lived in Cobble Hill a number of years back, there was a really nice older couple that had lived on the block for decades and often spent mornings and afternoons out on their stoop in good weather, visiting with everyone that passed by. They had several neighbor's keys and would move their cars from one side to the other for them in exchange for some monthly amount. Seriously, it was about 8 cars. Worked out really well for all parties involved.i extend my battery life by turning down the brightness
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i always find a spot during the night time when i goto my building. always!Fight white guilt and injustice by smoking tax free guilt free Reservation Smokes or go gamble in a Native Casino.
I like to stick it to The Man, The Man happens to be Liberal in NYC(power Structure). -
So, I've had a borrowed car for a few months, and I've been doing the dance on street-sweeping days, double parking from 9:30 to 11 and then moving back over at 11. I thought that was the culture, here. But yesterday I went out to move my car back over, and I had a ticket (time stamped 11:03 AM) for $115 for double-parking. That suggests that playing the game means moving it at or before 11. But then today, almost every car parked on the swept side of the road has a ticket, as of noon, and the tickets haven't been picked up, which suggests that owners moved their cars over a few minutes before 11 and got ticketed. There's no way that many people just forgot about sweeping day, so they must've gotten caught by something unexpected. So, what the hell? Is it just that it's the last day of the fiscal year? Is the game up? Am I not playing right? I can't afford a $115 ticket very often.
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See #5 above.i extend my battery life by turning down the brightness
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CHE » So, I've had a borrowed car for a few months, and I've been doing the dance on street-sweeping days, double parking from 9:30 to 11 and then moving back over at 11. I thought that was the culture, here. But yesterday I went out to move my car back over, and I had a ticket (time stamped 11:03 AM) for $115 for double-parking. That suggests that playing the game means moving it at or before 11. But then today, almost every car parked on the swept side of the road has a ticket, as of noon, and the tickets haven't been picked up, which suggests that owners moved their cars over a few minutes before 11 and got ticketed. There's no way that many people just forgot about sweeping day, so they must've gotten caught by something unexpected. So, what the hell? Is it just that it's the last day of the fiscal year? Is the game up? Am I not playing right? I can't afford a $115 ticket very often.
Mail it in and plead not guilty - you are supposed to get a 5 minute grace period now. -
Thanks, stacey, but I think jeffrey's right that there's no 5-minute grace period for double-parking—that it's always illegal, but accepted if you move your car precisely at the start and end of sweeping. Is that right?
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CHE » Thanks, stacey, but I think jeffrey's right that there's no 5-minute grace period for double-parking—that it's always illegal, but accepted if you move your car precisely at the start and end of sweeping. Is that right?
It says you have a 5 minute grace period after ASS. If you were not double parked for ASS you would not have gotten a ticket so it seems to me that you have 5 minutes to move it. If you were double parked outside of ASS times then you are shit out of luck. I understand what you mean about double parking being illegal but it has been accepted in that area for some time now. http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/03/21/2010-03-21_5_minutes_of_mercy_in_city_parking_reprieve_takes_effect_today.html -
with the ass you better sit in your car, sometimes they ticket people when they aren't there.Fight white guilt and injustice by smoking tax free guilt free Reservation Smokes or go gamble in a Native Casino.
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I know "meter maids" might be nice normal people and all, but I can't help wishing very, very bad things upon them. With the 8:30 - 10am alt pkng on my block, I have gotten tickets for double parking at 8:29 and 10:01. I have gotten tickets at times indicating they must have seen me walk away from the car an headed directly toward it. I am normally a kind and forgiving person. Yet I hate them with all my heart. I don't know what the numbers are now, but according to the NYT, since Mr. Bloomberg took office, the city has hired 793 more traffic enforcement agents and doubled some penalties, collecting 64 percent more in fines in the 2008 fiscal year than it did in 2002. It's really just too much. Literally, for some... that's why state lawmakers had to pass a law that made it a felony to assault a traffic agent.
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A neighbor of mine has the super move the car for him in the morning. But I don't think it's easy to find someone trustworthy like that.
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Oof, Doc J. I don't have any evidence for this speculation, but given the way Bloomberg has talked about his employees on other issues, I wonder if all the new meter maids have got bigger incentives to bring home tickets, bigger disincentives not to come home without a bundle of tickets, so enforcement is way more picky. Or maybe this has been going on for a long time, and all these neighbors with cars are just used to paying a regular "parking tax"? Why street sweeping needs to be more than one day/month on each side of the street, if that, is beyond me.
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whenever i need to move my car AND work i get up early, and move my car into the slope by the Q 7th ave stop and hop on the train from there. the earlier it is the easier (most times) it is to find parking. unless you are moving it on tuesday mornings, when this plan doesnt work, because ps has alt. side on tuesdays and wednesdays from 11:30-1. luckily i have tuesdays off and only have to move my car to the slope on friday mornings. on tuesdays i move it to the ph areas that have ASS parking from 8:30-10 and sit in my car for half an hour til i can leave it. if this sounds confusing, it is. and it has taken me a lot of tickets to get this process down. good luck! =)i'm a traitor from queens
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