Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Teachers

Mayor de Blasio and UFT President Michael Mulgrew. Photo: Rob Bennett/Office of the Mayor

City Hall Says It Will Release Records on New Teacher Parking Placards … After the Election

By Brad Aaron | Sep 11, 2017 | 18 Comments

The public won’t know what prompted de Blasio to restore teacher parking perks until the general election is in the mayor’s rear view mirror.

CB 12 Committee Says “No” to Parking Permits for All Teachers

By Brad Aaron | Feb 3, 2009 | 15 Comments

As we reported last week, Maria Baez and a handful of other City Council members want to issue free parking permits to every public school teacher in New York City. As the system presently employs some 95,000 full-time teachers, in addition to 18,000 part-time teachers and paraprofessionals, Intro 894 would encourage hundreds of thousands of […]

City Council Hard at Work on Pro-Parking Bills

By Brad Aaron | Jan 27, 2009 | 12 Comments

Maria Baez wants all teachers to hit the road. Transit-riding New Yorkers, take heart. In these tough times, your City Council members are at this moment pushing a slew of bills that will make your lives easier. All you have to do is trade your MetroCard for a set of car keys. In December and […]

At P.S. 161 in Harlem the Sidewalk is the Parking Lot

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 8, 2008 | 16 Comments

Streetsblog reader Richard Conroy sends along these photos and writes: Yesterday there was an article about Randi Weingarten saying teachers don’t abuse parking permits. I found that amusing since my daily commute takes me past P.S. 161 in Harlem where there are numerous vehicles parked on the sidewalk every school day. This school is on […]

Weingarten: “Teachers Are Not Abusers of Parking Permits”

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 7, 2008 | 58 Comments

A car with a teacher’s permit on the dashboard is parked beneath a "No Parking Anytime" sign. The license plate number does not match the one printed on the permit. (UncivilServants.org) United Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten sent a letter to Mayor Bloomberg Friday expressing objections to his plan to reduce the number of […]