Dream Come True (Minus the Dirt): No Alternate Side Parking

garfunky

ps - has anyone seen my car ?

i parked it about 3 weeks ago and not having to move it anytime soon,seem to have forgotten where. oh well ...

redmenace

Garfunky wrote: ps - has anyone seen my car ?

i parked it about 3 weeks ago and not having to move it anytime soon,seem to have forgotten where. oh well ...

I may be mistaken, but cars parked for over a week are considered abandoned and will be towed. At least that's what the city said in regards to people using PS as their free summer parking lot.

garfunky

bluecat wrote: Beginning 3rd week of no-alt-parking in the Slope. Anybody see DOT posting the new 90 minute signs this was all about?

the 90 minute signs are replacing ALL of the 3 hour signs.
the dot or whoever expects it take a few months hence
no alternate side until done
(or whatever date was chosen that work would be done by)

So once the new signs are up altside goes back in effect
but for 90 minutes, instead of 3 hours.

garfunky

redmenace wrote: [quote=Garfunky]ps - has anyone seen my car ?

i parked it about 3 weeks ago and not having to move it anytime soon,seem to have forgotten where. oh well ...

I may be mistaken, but cars parked for over a week are considered abandoned and will be towed. At least that's what the city said in regards to people using PS as their free summer parking lot.

rut roe

caaahyoko

redmenace wrote: [quote=Garfunky]ps - has anyone seen my car ?

i parked it about 3 weeks ago and not having to move it anytime soon,seem to have forgotten where. oh well ...

I may be mistaken, but cars parked for over a week are considered abandoned and will be towed. At least that's what the city said in regards to people using PS as their free summer parking lot.

Ah, another weapon in the grudges between neighbors. Calling 311 and having their car towed.

good one

i noticed that many of the friday signs are now stating tuesdays. they started changing some of the signs from the east side of PPW and some of the side streets that had friday's no parking as well.
i'm just worried they're going to start implementing the parking rules and not give us any heads up

bergenites

According to the DOT website, Alternate Side parking will not resume in Park Slope until ALL of the signs are replaced... which could take a while...

arches

redmenace wrote: I may be mistaken, but cars parked for over a week are considered abandoned and will be towed. At least that's what the city said in regards to people using PS as their free summer parking lot.

Ha...have you ever tried to get an abandonded car towed? We had a couple in PH that didn't move for 4-6 MONTHS before they were finally towed, even with lots of calls to 311. It seems to be a low priority for the city- although maybe now that they're not making money on tickets in PS...

willregistersoon

Has anyone noticed the streets any dirtier? I haven't.

eggcream

The same car has been parked in front of my house since this started.
The streets aren't too bad, I pick up in front of my house. The rain cleaned up a lot of stuff..papers, leaves etc.

wtgirl

I usually take the bus or subway over but sometimes (i.e. pediatrician) I have to drive. I found parking REALLY REALLY hard this past two weeks when I did drive. I am dreading driving to a pediatrician appointment tomorrow as I think I might drive in circles for 45 minutes but this time I can't just give up and go home. Somebody is parking for a long time as there isn't a lot of movement. Normally you just drive and catch someone pulling out (takes about 5 minutes)

superjonbot

I haven't moved my car as well for fear of losing my spot, but I've seen empty spaces here and there on 10th st where I park, so its possibly not as bad as everyone has assumed.

good one

as far as dirty streets go: what i did notice was that a lot of leafs and sticks, etc gather around the drains after the heavy rains we had last week and they are sort of sitting on top of the street drains and are now blocking everything. so now this means the next rain we have it will surely flood (this is particularly noticeable at the entrance to the park on garfield..which wil make it difficult for dog walkers and strollers to get across to enter or exit the park). i doubt the street cleaners will notice this. personally i try to kick the leafs away to allow an opening to form so the rain will be able to enter...)

garfunky

good one wrote: as far as dirty streets go: what i did notice was that a lot of leafs and sticks, etc gather around the drains after the heavy rains we had last week and they are sort of sitting on top of the street drains and are now blocking everything. so now this means the next rain we have it will surely flood (this is particularly noticeable at the entrance to the park on garfield..which wil make it difficult for dog walkers and strollers to get across to enter or exit the park). i doubt the street cleaners will notice this. personally i try to kick the leafs away to allow an opening to form so the rain will be able to enter...)

bravo !, (seriously!)

As someone who grew up on a corner lot in the burbs,
it never ceases to amaze me how few people will actually
kick, rake, broom or poke a hole in the sewer leaf pile.

better to just wait until the basement floods and
then biach about how the city is lazy....

garfunky

found my car - untowed - btw

bergenites

One thing to keep in mind - they are shooting an number of movies in the neighborhood this summer, and cars must relocate at certain times to accomodate that - otherwise they will move your car to the "nearest available legal parking spot" - which could be in Staten Island for all you know.

So, even if you don't plan/need/want to move you car, check in on it once in a while to make sure you don't have to for some reason like this.

garfunky

:!: good point !:!:

@ self

just me

So lasts nite rain totally clogged the drains on the street and this morning PPW and garfield was flooded...so i did exactly what was mentioned to do: I put on rain boots, moved all the sludge away and it was like a tub emptying out...the water just poured down the drain..it was kinda cool. but i can tell you i got totally drenced by a car whizzing by so fast b/4 the water drained...it was sort of comical!

daver

BTW, for whatever reason this has hit national news and was written up by the AP yesterday. I read about the suspension of Park Slope alternate side parking in my (formerly) local Arizona newspaper. Ha.

Parking-rules suspension throws NYC into a tizzy

bluecat

daver wrote: BTW, for whatever reason this has hit national news and was written up by the AP yesterday. I read about the suspension of Park Slope alternate side parking in my (formerly) local Arizona newspaper. Ha.

Parking-rules suspension throws NYC into a tizzy

So now the Greater-U.S. thinks owning a hummer is typical of our fair town. If they only knew..

willregistersoon

I have found there to be more available spots now than before. I came back to the Slope last night around 12:30 and there were several open spots - including right in front of my building.

turtle95

I haven't had any problems parking the past few weeks and there were two spots in front of my building around 8:00 pm last night. However, walking home down 14th Street between PPW and 8th, I did notice a lot more trash than usual and not just by the movie theater where there is always debris. There were lots of bottles and fast food bags, even some in empty parking spaces.

Also, I do an unscientific poll every day walking down the street (usually on any of the blocks between PPW and 8th Ave) where I count the number of cars and see how many cars with out of state (OOS) license plates are parked on the street and the number has not increased since these rules went into effect. On 14th, 15th and 15th Streets, the number of OOS cars ranges from 12-17%. Sometimes it spikes up to 20% but for the past few months (or at least since the car insurance thread, which got me looking for the OOS plate scofflaws ) it has really been consistent in that 12-17% range. Doesn't prove anything, I guess, but I like numbers.

garfunky

just me wrote: So lasts nite rain totally clogged the drains on the street and this morning PPW and garfield was flooded...so i did exactly what was mentioned to do: I put on rain boots, moved all the sludge away and it was like a tub emptying out...the water just poured down the drain..it was kinda cool. but i can tell you i got totally drenced by a car whizzing by so fast b/4 the water drained...it was sort of comical!

I appreciate that your a considerate neighbor.
Glad youre able to smile about getting car-splashed.

just me

thanks for the luv garfunky! :oops:

bluecat

Community Board 6 has posted the new date/time regulations:

http://www.brooklyncb6.org/_attachments/0.13325606_2008-05-15 SCR FAQS Area 1.pdf

Both the days and times shift from one block to the next. For example 6th Street below 6th Ave is Mon-Thu 9:30-11:00. Above 6th Ave it's Tue-Fri 9:00-10:30.

And speaking of 6th Street there's a block party Saturday btw 5th/6th Aves. Every tree has a sign that says no parking-block party and a second sign that warns DOT will tow your car!

Is this the first block party since the parking rules suspension? Has DOT been towing cars parked on street-party blocks? Have they ticketed or towed cars on block-party streets in the past?

-bc

bluecat

Another oddity: They're taking 1 hour to sweep the west side of 7th Ave from Flatbush to 15th St, 7:30-8:30. But only 1/2 hour to sweep the east side 8:30-9:00.

-bc

daver

Sounds like a perception/reality thing:

B'KLYN POLICY CREATES 'NO PARK' SLOPE
By RICH CALDER

June 16, 2008 -- Park Slope has long been infamous for its lack of parking. Now, many residents say the situation's gotten worse, thanks to a recent city policy change that's supposed to provide relief.

The decision to suspend alternate side regulations - expected to last at least through the summer - was needed so that more than 9,000 street signs can be replaced. The signs outline new residential street-cleaning rules that reduce once-a-week "no parking" enforcement from three hours to 90 minutes.

"At first I thought it was great not having to deal with alternate side parking, but as it turns out, now it's twice as hard to find a spot," said Linda Morrison, 29, of Sixth Avenue. "A lot of people are just leaving their cars in the same spots for days, weeks."

But city spokesman Seth Solomonow said "observations" by the Department of Transportation and Brooklyn Community Board 6 have found the number of available spots hasn't changed "noticeably" compared to "the high level of parking occupancy that existed before the suspension began."

Maria Maloney, 32, of Eighth Avenue, has another gripe. Without street sweeping, roads in Park Slope are "beginning to smell with the arrival of the warm weather," she complained.

NY Post

daver

Sounds like a perception/reality thing:

B'KLYN POLICY CREATES 'NO PARK' SLOPE
By RICH CALDER

June 16, 2008 -- Park Slope has long been infamous for its lack of parking. Now, many residents say the situation's gotten worse, thanks to a recent city policy change that's supposed to provide relief.

The decision to suspend alternate side regulations - expected to last at least through the summer - was needed so that more than 9,000 street signs can be replaced. The signs outline new residential street-cleaning rules that reduce once-a-week "no parking" enforcement from three hours to 90 minutes.

"At first I thought it was great not having to deal with alternate side parking, but as it turns out, now it's twice as hard to find a spot," said Linda Morrison, 29, of Sixth Avenue. "A lot of people are just leaving their cars in the same spots for days, weeks."

But city spokesman Seth Solomonow said "observations" by the Department of Transportation and Brooklyn Community Board 6 have found the number of available spots hasn't changed "noticeably" compared to "the high level of parking occupancy that existed before the suspension began."

Maria Maloney, 32, of Eighth Avenue, has another gripe. Without street sweeping, roads in Park Slope are "beginning to smell with the arrival of the warm weather," she complained.

NY Post

good one

Being pretty observant, I really haven't noticed any long term parkers. what i have noticed, and i am wondering how long it will take anyone to do anything about this, is this one blue car parked on PPW and Garfield. It has TWO flat tires on the passenger side of the car. it has been parked for about 2 weeks now with the flat tires. it has firefighter plaques in the window, a really nice bike rack and dark tints on the windows. I don't know if it's stolen, abandoned, or the owner is just not in a rush to fix/move it. At first we thought it was vandalism but no other cars around it had any damage (thank goodness). anyone have any ideas or know what's up? or know who it belongs to so they can be made aware of the flats?

good one

Being pretty observant, I really haven't noticed any long term parkers. what i have noticed, and i am wondering how long it will take anyone to do anything about this, is this one blue car parked on PPW and Garfield. It has TWO flat tires on the passenger side of the car. it has been parked for about 2 weeks now with the flat tires. it has firefighter plaques in the window, a really nice bike rack and dark tints on the windows. I don't know if it's stolen, abandoned, or the owner is just not in a rush to fix/move it. At first we thought it was vandalism but no other cars around it had any damage (thank goodness). anyone have any ideas or know what's up? or know who it belongs to so they can be made aware of the flats?