Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking Permits

What a Surprise: NYPD Breaks Law By Not Investigating Placard Abuse

By Gersh Kuntzman | Oct 2, 2020 | No Comments

The city's latest failure to crack down on illegal placard parking can be fully laid on the NYPD, which has broken the law by not evaluating placard abuse hotspots and turning the evidence over to the Department of Investigation.

It Has Taken Months, But City DOI Finally Nabs a City Employee for Placard Abuse

By Gersh Kuntzman | Sep 30, 2020 | No Comments

The Department of Investigation arraigned a high-level city employee for using a fake placard — one of, um, one city employees criminally busted for doing what many city employees and residents do every day.

Mayor Finally Just Says It: Fighting Placard-Abusing City Employees is ‘Not a Priority Right Now’

By Gersh Kuntzman | Sep 15, 2020 | No Comments

"Wait 'til next year," the Brooklynite mayor says (just like Dodger fans of old!).

Here's Williamsburg Prep High School in a Google street view image. Cars cars cars.

Mayor Won’t Stop Teachers From Parking on School Playgrounds

By Eve Kessler | Aug 26, 2020 | No Comments

"It really depends on the school," he tells NY1.

On Wednesday, police officers' personal vehicles still filled the M10 bus stop, one day after Mayor de Blasio and the NYPD said the situation would change. Photo: Adam Light

BUSINESS AS USUAL: Mayor, NYPD Promised To Evict Cops from Harlem Bus Stop — But Nothing Has Changed

By Gersh Kuntzman and Adam Light | Aug 12, 2020 | No Comments

Is this really so difficult?

The NYPD’s (Non-Existent) Placard Crackdown — By the (Astonishingly Low) Numbers

By Gersh Kuntzman | Aug 11, 2020 | No Comments

From July 1, 2019 to July 1, 2020, the NYPD and the DOT issued just 2,444 placard abuse summonses — the equivalent of fewer than seven tickets a day across the entire city.

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