Great website on civil servants, doctors, etc. who abuse parking privileges.
Example: cop parks his $70,000 Corvette on River Terrace at Warren Street. Parks in the exact same spot for 14 months. Uses his unmarked car to hold his spot when he takes his Vette out. In the above picture, said Vette with car cover that hasn’t been moved since before last months’s storm cannot possibly be on ‘official police duty.’
Transportation Alternatives, champion of drug-addled cyclists and 12-step pedicab drivers, says [...]
Posted in The City on March 28th, 2007 | 
No Comments »
[ Share / Bookmark + ]
parking Swapon Nath
Catholic leaders attacked NYC’s plan to give away 26 million, subway-themed rubbers yesterday, calling the attempt to lower the AIDS rate “tragic and misguided.”
Another two journalists who oughta have their tushies paddled: first, our old classmate from NYU journalism school, Maria Bartiromo, CNBC’s puffy-lipped “money honey,” has been caught accepting private jet rides from ex-Citigroup honcho, Todd Thomson, a person she was supposed to be objectively covering. Commenting on Bartiromo’s “close friendship” with Thomson, Steve Adler, Editor-in-Chief of Business Week, [...]
Posted in The City on February 16th, 2007 | No Comments »
[ Share / Bookmark + ]
flash NY Post parking
Used to be some Sunday parking in the city. Now Sunday spots are scarcer than a cheap 1-bedroom. In November, 2005, the City Council, the wisest of our elected bodies, passed Local Law 669, stating that no longer would meters have to be fed on Sundays. Supposedly, council members reasoned, churchgoers wouldn’t have to interupt god to feed meters. Mayor Bloomberg, however, argues the law is beyond dumb; it prevents people from parking cars on Saturday night and not moving [...]
Posted in The City on October 5th, 2006 | No Comments »
[ Share / Bookmark + ]
parking Zachary Cohen
Next to public spats between married people, Recharger loves public spats over parking. This one happened on Third Avenue between 21st and 22nd Streets. Fat guy stood in space, reserving it for a friend. Fat lady with SUV took exception.
Not surprisingly, the city’s Traffic Rules, Section 4-08, says the guy was wrong. “Unofficial reserving of parking space. It shall be unlawful for any person to reserve or attempt to reserve a parking space, or prevent any vehicle from [...]
Posted in The City on September 8th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
[ Share / Bookmark + ]
parking
