Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking Placards

Pols may no longer park their cars on the Brooklyn Borough Hall plaza, as these cars were in 2019. A new movement aims to defeat the Brooklyn machine and the car culture it fosters. Photo: Julianne Cuba

City To End Parking at Brooklyn Borough Hall — Once The Beep Leaves Office

By Julianne Cuba | Jan 23, 2020 | No Comments

The Parks Department has finally lowered the boom — well, sort of. Parking will be banned starting in 2022, after Borough President Eric Adams leaves office.

They seized paradise to put up a parking lot. Photo: Doug Gordon

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STREETSBLOG GETS ACTION (Well, Not Really): City Bans Teacher Parking on Play Street (But Then Does Nothing)

By Streetsblog | Jan 17, 2020 | No Comments

Lesson one, students: Lie to the media.

OMG, this is the best thing we saw all day.

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Tuesday’s Headlines: Tactical Urbanism vs. Placard Abuse Edition

By Streetsblog | Jan 14, 2020 | No Comments

Wait till you see what someone did to one of Borough President Adams's workers' cars! Plus the other headlines.

All the vehicles in this picture are parked illegally in the Jay Street no-standing (placard abuse) zone. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Placard Crackdown Begins! (Well, Actually, No it Doesn’t!)

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 6, 2020 | No Comments

Placard crackdown? Not in Downtown Brooklyn, Long Island City or Lower Manhattan at least.

A dumpster in the bike lane on Grand Street this summer. Photo: Julianne Cuba.

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Monday’s Headlines: Today Will be a ‘Grand’ Day Edition

By Streetsblog | Jan 6, 2020 | No Comments

No one is more excited than us about Monday: New bike lane protections on Grand Street AND a placard abuse crackdown by the NYPD! That plus all the other headlines. Just click the headline.

Streetsies 2019: Placard Abuse of the Year

By Streetsblog | Dec 27, 2019 | No Comments

We live in hope that this scourge, after many reform attempts, will end. But we're not counting on it.

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