NYPD Parking Hogs Finally Crossed a Line
Joanna Oltman Smith nearly broke the Internet yesterday with this photo of officers marking territory for NYPD Transit Bureau District 30 on Schermerhorn Street:
Just because you graffiti/tag Schermerhorn #bikenyc lane does not make it your parking lot @CommissBratton @NYC_DOT pic.twitter.com/NiXnJ9vZVX
— Joanna Oltman Smith (@jooltman) October 14, 2015
Scrawling the District 30 pecking order on public asphalt was apparently too bold a move, at least with all those people watching on Twitter and Gothamist:
@KeeganNYC @jooltman they got busted pic.twitter.com/pIcyodWZQR — Nick Malinowski (@nwmalinowski) October 14, 2015
Appropriating the bike lane and the sidewalk for police “combat parking” is still fine, though. It was only the artisanal parking stall paint job that crossed a line. So here we are, back to the status quo ante, with NYPD vehicles sending a message to people on bikes and people heading to the A/C and G trains about who owns the streets in this town:
