78 pct allows illegal parking

mrfroop · January 2006

I have already sent this to the department of investigation
but I just want people to be aware that while you and I are forced to find alternate side parking, The 78th precinct allows certain people who own businesses in the area to park in the police only spots.
this has been going on for at least the 2 years i have been living here.

One is Michael's Pizza truck and the other is Garden Works
Truck. I'm sure there are more,but these are the only ones that are easily identifiable.
I don't know if it bugs anybody else, but if I can't park there, Why should they?

tony balls · January 2006

my two cents:

you are complaining too much. buck up and park like everyone else.

pete_c · January 2006

Now wait a second. Suck it up and park like everyone else? Screw that.

Park Slopers, on some blocks, get only 30 min per week of alternate side parking. Over here, it's 90 min 4 days a week.

If that weren't so blatantly unfair -- for a streetsweeping service of dubious value, but hey, patronage jobs are sacred, right? -- I'd be willing to dimiss this one.

But its absurd that Heights ppl have to deal with such inconvenience, yet the local cops can hand out freebies.

tony balls · January 2006

hey try going to Brooklyn Heights! Some streets only have one sided parking, and one day a week they flip! too easy!

but seriously......what childhood did you have that taught you that life is fair? I'm sorry, but its not. Some people will always have special privelage, whether they deserve it or not.

jamesondean · January 2006

Just because life isn't fair doesn't mean we have to like it, or will stop fighting...

Welcome to the board, Tony.

tony balls · January 2006

hahaha......well of course you don't have to like it. I don't like it. I just think there are much bigger fish to fry.

Thanks!

bergen record · January 2006

Awesome, Tony. Life isn't fair, so why should we expect our laws to be enforced as such? I hope you never have to live in your sloganocracy.

qtrain · January 2006

I demand comeuppance. COMEUPPANCE!

brooklynswordstyle · January 2006

I'd say save the outrage for the outrageous. No one is going to care that cops are helping out a few neighborhood friends with some parking.

It might be a pain in the ass, but it's simply a fact of city life. Just like public urination.

smokin joe · January 2006

BrooklynSwordStyle wrote: Just like public urination.

precisely.

publicly paid cops giving away public land and it's the public that's getting pissed on. public urination indeed.

but tony b. is right. it's just a little corruption we're talking about. the businesses get free parking and the cops probably get free pizza, which again benefits the business because they get additional security from having cops there all the time. and jayce gets mugged on park place (see other thread) and can't find a cop to take her report because they're hanging out at the free pizza gravy train.

but bfd. we've got bigger fish to fry, right? it's the city. get used to it.

liftandcut · January 2006

Yeah, this is just one of those situations that we all have to deal with and expect not to be rectified. I've noticed that special treatment all ove rthe neighborhood, especially while looking for spots. Typical city crap, but it's been like that in this city since before I was born. However, in all seriousness, it might be worth calling Arnold Diaz about. Hey you never know...

oiseau · January 2006

I am so glad I now live where it is ASP once a week!

Besides allowing their cronies to park where they please, cops allow cars to double park to go to church. WTF? Perhaps I should get to double park a few hours a week where I please because I'm agnostic.

brooklynswordstyle · January 2006

Oh, I hate the double-parking-for-jesus thing. That impacts more people because you can get parked in. I've complained a lot to 311 about it, but I don't ever expect anything to be done. After all, it's for JESUS. I think that was the 11th commandment: "Thou shalt park thy chariot with impunity when worshiping The Lord thy God."

captain m · January 2006

With The slew of "God told me... XYZ" comments from my personal pal Caldwell, Robertson and now Nagin I'm starting to feel like the "God" thing has jumped the shark.

Not to be confused with good honest faith by the way.....

devincf · January 2006

Smokin' Joe wrote: [quote=BrooklynSwordStyle]Just like public urination.

precisely.

publicly paid cops giving away public land and it's the public that's getting pissed on. public urination indeed.

but tony b. is right. it's just a little corruption we're talking about. the businesses get free parking and the cops probably get free pizza, which again benefits the business because they get additional security from having cops there all the time. and jayce gets mugged on park place (see other thread) and can't find a cop to take her report because they're hanging out at the free pizza gravy train.

but bfd. we've got bigger fish to fry, right? it's the city. get used to it.

You think someone got mugged because of where a pizza van was parked?

jayce · January 2006

Smokin' Joe wrote: and jayce gets mugged on park place (see other thread) and can't find a cop to take her report because they're hanging out at the free pizza gravy train.

Woah tiger.
The cops were there within 5 minutes of my being mugged. They found me right fucking quick and spent a good hour with me at that. The issue with the report was beauracracy at the front desk, not with the cops themselves.

I wouldnt use that to label the system corrupt. Bureaucratic, yes. Corrupt, no.

kw · January 2006

I got parked in by church-goers between on Dean between 6th and Carlton a few months back. I was surprised to find that the church had a valet system in place for the double parked cars. Within a few minutes they moved the car and I was free.

duke of flatbush · January 2006

What about the Cops themseves? The sidewalks around the Precinct house on Bergen and Sixth are crowded with the personal vehicles of NYC's finest. In addition to being to cheap to pay for parking, apparently they are above the law! And this isn't for a couple of hours on Sunday - every day I've got to walk in the street, risking life and limb while their cars block the pedestrian and bicycle paths.

In addition to my personal outrage and inconvenience, I find it awfully coincidental that the Police park all over the sidewalks in an area the City is just dying to declare blighted.

devincf · January 2006

Risking life and limb?

tony balls · January 2006

devincf wrote: Risking life and limb?

RUN! THE STREETS ARE CRAWLING WITH PYTHONS AND TARANTULAS!!!

lol.

duke of flatbush · January 2006

RUN! THE STREETS ARE CRAWLING WITH PYTHONS AND TARANTULAS!!!

Mainly Cherokees and Trans Ams, but equally scarry!

Can't a guy get up on a soap box once in awhile!?

devincf · January 2006

I am picturing the game screen from Frogger.

duke of flatbush · January 2006

I am picturing the game screen from Frogger.

Yeah, see. That didn't work out well for George Costanza.

But seriously bicyclists and pedestrians get killed way too often to be taking this so lightly. NYPD should really set a better example or at least obey the law themselves.

tony balls · January 2006

sigh.....reaching

and incorrectly, at that!

stacey · January 2006

Duke of Flatbush wrote:
I am picturing the game screen from Frogger.

Yeah, see. That didn't work out well for George Costanza.

But seriously bicyclists and pedestrians get killed way too often to be taking this so lightly. NYPD should really set a better example or at least obey the law themselves.

I have to agree with Duke on this one but I think it is a combination of the way they park as well as the light syncronization (sp?) on Bergen that causes so many safety problems.

If you want to envision Frogger watch me walking down Bergen avoiding all the dog poop around the precinct

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