How to Make Your Own Free Parking Near the Atlantic Yards Site

boygabriel

Ratner Arena: Good for the community!

http://www.streetsblog.org/2012/01/06/how-to-make-your-own-free-parking-by-the-atlantic-yards-site/

How to Make Your Own Free Parking Near the Atlantic Yards Site

by Ben Fried

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tTriNHzPL80

Via Norman Oder at Atlantic Yards Report, here’s a variety of parking scofflaw that we’ve never come across before on Streetsblog.

In the video, an early morning car commuter, presumably someone working on the nearby Barclays Center arena project, apparently decides that the last parking space on this block of Pacific Street (between Sixth Avenue and Carlton Avenue) is too small to accommodate his SUV, so he makes his own free parking by uprooting a No Standing sign. Oder says the vandalism and flouting of parking regs is symptomatic of the un-monitored violations around the Atlantic Yards construction zone, including trucks double-parking and idling.

This isn’t the first time that Atlantic Yards workers have torn out this particular No Standing sign, thereby adding about four or five illegal on-street spaces, according to Atlantic Yards Watch. In fact, the maker of this video predicted that the sign “would be destroyed within one day of installation again,” and he was right.

And you thought placards were the ultimate in free parking entitlement.

jml

That's great. I'm assuming the police will do nothing. I'm going to follow his lead and take down the no parking signs on my block too.

boygabriel

I mean, it's something that crosses everyone's mind.

But few people are actually jerks to that degree.

tateinbk

I think a number of people are jerks to this degree, they just lack the upper body strength to actually follow through.

eastbloc

You guys have funny associations. What's this got to do with the arena?

ayinfonyc

for the 3rd time within 6 weeks the sign was destroyed; New No Standing Sign installed destroyed in less than 24 hrs by Barclays Arena/FCR construction worker. Read what was posted:

http://www.atlanticyardswatch.net/node/476

karl the druid

suggestion:

a mo' standing sign will encourage standing

boygabriel

eastbloc said:

You guys have funny associations. What's this got to do with the arena?

ayinfonyc said:

for the 3rd time within 6 weeks the sign was destroyed; New No Standing Sign installed destroyed in less than 24 hrs by Barclays Arena/FCR construction worker. Read what was posted:

http://www.atlanticyardswatch.net/node/476

eastbloc

Hilarious. Yeah, why don't I read the baseless conjecture on an anti-Atlantic Yards web site? There's no evidence there whatsoever that this person is a construction worker.

And even if they were, what's that got to do with anything? If they worked at a local pizza joint, would you be shaking your feeble collective fist at that business?

ayinfonyc

HELL ya I would, I don't care what kind of business it was if the workers continued to shit on the NABE! This is not a "isolated incident"....

eastbloc

Well, enjoy tilting at your windmills, then.

karl the druid

mo' standin'

just sayin'

whynot_31

tateinbk said:

I think a number of people are jerks to this degree, they just lack the upper body strength to actually follow through.

This site needs a feature that will allow me to "like" posts like this one

drano

And even if they were, what's that got to do with anything? If they worked at a local pizza joint, would you be shaking your feeble collective fist at that business?

I, for one, would seethe with impotent rage. Lousy pizza joints.

Seriously though, I hope somebody gets arrested for this sooner or later.

eastbloc

It would be Ratner himself if some here had their way, I'm sure.

whynot_31

Others merely envy Ratner.

Others think this is part of the never ending struggle

http://m.youtube.com/?dc=organic&source=mog#/watch?v=5iAIM02kv0g

goodneighborps

Hilarious

boygabriel

eastbloc said:

It would be Ratner himself if some here had their way, I'm sure.

Crazy how people get mad at man who gets rich off ruining their neighborhood with empty promises.

The nerve of some people.

bill c

if they follow the money trail in the kruger corruption case this might get interesting. article about that in today's ny times, although mostly focusing on yonkers development.

whynot_31

bill c said:

if they follow the money trail in the kruger corruption case this might get interesting. article about that in today's ny times, although mostly focusing on yonkers development.

Here's more on Kruger.

eastbloc

Boygabriel said:

Crazy how people get mad at man who gets rich off ruining their neighborhood with empty promises.

The nerve of some people.

The neighborhood still seems all right to me.

Why don't you just admit the truth -- that you're jealous of a man's success, and will for this reason rationalize any way to pillory him and his associates?

booklaw

Eastbloc, are you so committed to no-holds-barred capitalism that you are willing to countenance fraud (i.e. Ratner's) as a way of increasing one's fortune?

Ratner promised first-class architecture by a preeminent architect, and then, once he got the necessary approvals, he substituted cheaper and drabber designs by a far less renowned architect.

He promised jobs for the local community, jobs which never materialized.

He promised affordable housing... Don't hold your breath.

He literally bought off the opposition by funding a phony community group to support his positions.

One doesn't need to rationalize to pillory Ratner.

The opinions I've expressed here are my own... i do not speak for Brooklynian.com.

eastbloc

If it is legally fraud, that is a matter for lawyers and judges (not bloggers) to decide. Otherwise, I just call that a change of business plans.

But wait, wasn't this thread about parking? It should have been, except BG threw up (no pun intended) that epithet about "Ratner Arena: Good for the community!"

I'm sure the community, which in my experience has always before prided itself on model vehicular etiquette, is shattered by that parking incident.

Damn you, Ratner!

booklaw

fraudulent misrepresentation   

Definition

Instance of false statement where (1) the party making the statement is aware that it is false or disregards the possibility of it being false, (2) the party making the statement does so to induce another party to enter into a contract, and (3) the other party enters the contract as a result of the statement and consequently suffers a loss.

www.businessdictionary.com

In this case, New York City, Brooklyn, and Prospect Heights in particular, are the "other party".

whynot_31

Did those of us who never believed Ratner suffer a loss?

Is it always bad thing when one's world view is affirmed?

Things like AY make feel less crazy and paranoid everyday, and thus more zen.

eastbloc

What is the loss that was suffered by the city as a result of the fraud?

There's enough people on the hate-AY bandwagon that I'm sure if anyone had a smidgen of a court case it would have been heard by now.

As it stands, it sounds like sour grapes to me.

karl the druid

less grapes

mo' standing

whynot_31

whynot_31 said:

Did those of us who never believed Ratner suffer a loss?

Is it always a bad thing when one's world view is affirmed?

Things like AY make me feel less crazy and paranoid everyday, and thus more zen.

I hate when I am deep, but forget to type words. I fear my flaws will prevent me from ever getting my own bumper sticker.

booklaw

The loss? People lost their homes! Traffic around Flatbush, Fourth Avenue and Atlantic Avenue has been messed up and will only become more so once the Barclay Center becomes operational. Ditto subway service. We're stuck with a huge eyesore of a stadium in the center of Brooklyn, and the city gave out huge tax abatements under false pretenses. I call that a bunch of losses.

whynot_31

I do not feel such losses because I am the only person on the face of the earth that has no illusions of controlling my surroundings. This attribute allows me to simply wonder why others like democracy, and other forms of self expression. Hence, the arena meets my expectations.

Returning to the mind I actually live in, I think those of us with a proper music education would agree that a tribute to Pink Floyd or The Smiths would be a suitable first event for the arena.

mrs whynot

If Whynot gets a "like" button, can I get a "sigh" button. As in, I sigh when Whynot (who for those of you are thoroughly dense, I live with) writes:

whynot wrote: I do not feel such losses because I am the only person on the face of the earth that has no illusions of controlling my surroundings. This attribute allows me to simply wonder why others like democracy, and other forms of self expression. Hence, the arena meets my expectations.