Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Parking Placards

This Just In: NYPD Biggest Abusers of Placard Perk

By Brad Aaron | | 4 Comments
The Post is reporting today that a sweep against illegally parked placard-bearing vehicles has resulted in over 2,400 summonses, almost half of them issued to NYPD employees. Over the last three months, special teams of Internal Affairs officers have scoured congested streets in lower Manhattan and around government hubs in outer boroughs, searching for vehicles […]

NYPD Unions File Complaint Over Placard Cuts

By Brad Aaron | | 14 Comments
Taking a cue from New York’s Brightest, the five unions representing the city’s Finest have filed a complaint aimed at undermining city parking reforms by retaining free privileges for police officers, detectives, lieutenants and captains. The Post reports that the complaint "contend[s] the city was required to negotiate the new plan before yanking more than […]

Has Time Run Out on the Parking Placard “Crackdown”?

By Brad Aaron | | 6 Comments
Chinatown, December 2007: As good as it gets? Early this year, Mayor Bloomberg’s office announced across-the-board reductions in the number of government-issued parking placards that could be allotted to city employees. And while the city looks to be following through with the cuts — to the chagrin of some among the entitled motoring class — […]

Randi Weingarten Still Doesn’t Get It

By Brad Aaron | | 20 Comments
Back in January United Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten protested Mayor Bloomberg’s mandate to reduce the number government parking placard handouts. In a letter to the mayor, Weingarten called the move "deeply troubling," and claimed that taking free parking away from teachers — who, unlike tens of thousands of other government employees, "are not […]

Internal Affairs Crackdown Nets Placard Abusers

By Brad Aaron | | 4 Comments
They’re summonsing their own, and then some. The Post reports that NYPD Internal Affairs launched a sweep last week against illegally parked placarded vehicles and fake parking permits, resulting in 178 tickets, nearly two dozen towed vehicles and the arrest of one retired officer. The operation targeted Lower Manhattan and "government and courthouse hubs" in […]
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