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It looks like this is a common thing on this street
Car? Looks more like a tank. Who besides of farmers and woodworkers needs such big cars?
People who are terrified of anyone else figuring out that they have a tiny wiener.
Literally everyone, apparently. It doesn’t help compact and sedan options are getting slimmer every year too. I hate it.
Honestly it looks like the sidewalk snow was cleared after they parked but it still should’ve been obvious right?
That’s a lot more than mildly… Something happened since the pandemic people just have no idea how to park their cars.
Massive entitlement, lack of consequences.
Bleh, call the police non emergency line and get it towed. Insanity.
Call the fire dept and say youre concerned it might be blocking those exiting the building, (especially the handicapped) from clearing the area of a potential fire in a safe and orderly fashion.
I did this once when my neighbors landscapers parked blocking in my front door, despite me catching them at stand asking them not to park on the yellow line, when I needed to get my mom to a post-op checkup (making that the only viable door as I had to carry hwr down the stairs, and the back is 2 flights compared to a half)
Not only was the fire dept there in like 5 mins, they had a bunch of guys flip the truck over to roll it out from between cars on either side, they broke the windows to throw a tow strap through the cab, dragged it upside down out into a place the wrecker could get it, and pulled it upside down onto the flatbed.
Then they helped me get my mom down the stairs as a bonus. Extra bonus was they landscapers tried to sue the homeowner for the loss of the truck over their refusal to provide offscreen parking (my street fills up despite the town’s requirement for adequate onstreet parking intended for workers like landscapers)
They ended up dropping the neighbors house, which due to the publicity got them on every landscaper in town’s blacklist. The inability to get landscapers ended up making the house no longer atractive enougb for short term rentals, first replaced by a long term rental, and eventually they sold, and now there’s a real, working class family there!
Probably is a cop
Police do not care. There a huge chance they don’t arrive in time. I called on a couple of tweakers that were fucking around for 4 hours below my apartment and the cops took 5 hours to arrive. Fuck the police. Useless.
The difference here is that enforcement of parking violations generates revenue for the police force with minimal paperwork. Tangling with tweakers generates no revenue and a bunch of paperwork. Police forces have never been about protecting the public.
YMMV but this being NY, speaking from experience they have an army of meter maids ready to ruin someone’s day lol
That’s just another day in Philly.
Pee on the windshield.
Entitled little twat
This regularly happens in my neighborhood in Brooklyn. I don’t like it either, but I’m pretty sure it’s legal.
Luckily it is not legal, report it whenever you see it. I see at least 4 infractions
Details here: https://dmv.ny.gov/new-york-state-drivers-manual-and-practice-tests/chapter-7-parallel-parking
You cannot park, stop or stand:
[…]
On a sidewalk or in a crosswalk.[…]
Parking or standing is not allowed:
[…]
Within 20 feet (6 m) of a crosswalk at an intersection.
Within 30 feet (10 m) of a traffic light, STOP sign or YIELD sign.
Along a curb that is cut, lowered or made for access to the sidewalkI appreciate you sending this, but there’s a church at the end of my block where people park on the sidewalk, which is very very wide, every day. Is that still illegal then?
That would probably depend on the property lines. If it’s on the public easement, it’s likely illegal. But if the extended walkway area is on their private property, it’s probably kosher.
Might also have to look at the fire lane laws, for some reason I thought NYC had requirements for fire trucks to be able to get close enough to the building, so it might block the fire lane, maybe…
Context?
It’s the crossing guard. They’re beloved and allowed.
But yeah. Boo! They suck!
evidence for that?
Pop his fucking tires.
And came back to four slashed tires, right?
This is New York City, and from the Google Street View image, it looks like there’s not a lot of street parking there.
My guess is that a number of cities with a lot of density, like NYC, probably should mandate a certain amount of public parking garage space for users in an area. Multistory parking garage space isn’t cheap, but using up street space via committing space to street parking also has costs in terms of congestion, even if the business owner doesn’t bear the costs.
Or they could build and maintain a functional public transit network that allows people to get around without cars.
I see your point, but I think it’s a patch on a broken system - even as someone who primarily uses a car for transportation.
Personally, I think this person should be towed immediately. No excuse.
also, that bus is there across a few years of street view. Why the heck does NYC need school busses in a dense city?
If it’s there that consistently, it might live there (is that a school over on the left?). But even schools that don’t regularly collect students with dedicated school busses might want to have some for taking groups places, either transporting them between buildings in the district or for field trips or similar.
My town requires a certain amount of onstreet parking be alotted based on number of houses on a road. Iirc it works out to about one car length per 3 houses. I live on a narrow one way road, (parking only on the right hand side, but houses on both sides- the road is too narrow so a driveway on the left becomes inaccessible with a car parked across it on the right) that has now hit its maximum on non parking areas, which has started to have an interesting effect; one house was demoed and rebuilt with a garage included. They were not allowed to have the driveway open onto our road, as that would necessitate a yellow line in front of it, and ended up having to spend ~$1M to buy access rights to connect through the neighbor on the other side’s property.
There are currently 2 lots that could in theory be subdivided with new houses on them, that currently cannot be approved for building, because adding even one house would create the need for one new, impossible to eke out, on-street spot (even if they had a driveway, its about required parking for home service industries, guests, etc)
Same happens in commercial areas too. New businesses want to open, but due to parking mandates they have to demo other older buildings to be brought up to parking code. Asinine.
You think the solution to parking problems is letting assholes park on the sidewalk?
No. What in my comment gave you that impression?
Saying it’s a lack of street parking.
Or, rather than giving out free taxpayer funded subsidized parking, they could… Not drive there.
We already have parking mandates in most cities. It’s why all of America looks the same, flat spread out big box suburban nowheres. Parking mandates have been proven not to work and the methodology behind them at best is complete guesswork.
The solution is for people to use options other than driving. From your google maps link I was able to find:
I count roughly 5 bus lines and the N/W subway line, all within walking distance. They chose to drive to a place that had many other options to get there, and they chose here to be a dick. The problem was “not enough parking”, the problem was they decided to drive anyway.
