Here we have Latte Lucy still getting away with a pile of scrap paper parking daily in a NO PARKING zone,

With the $7200.00 she saves annually on garage parking she didn't need as she parked for free on the street she bought a new car.

See her old car here 4 and 5 years earlier.
Nice racket when enforcement sucks as it truly does. Just too much work to make an observation daily when there are easy pickens.
http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/965

http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/503

To great public appreciation, Mayor Bloomberg cracked down on park-anywhere placards in 2008, stripping a great many from teachers and school employees.

They did not like this, so into court marched the principals union with a claim that administrators were legally entitled to the perk because the longstanding privilege had, in effect, become part and parcel of their compensation.

Preposterous as the argument was, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Joan Madden dizzily endorsed the notion that canceling the placards was an "adverse alteration of ... working conditions." A judge might well so believe because members of New York's judiciary are known to favor their own curbside passes.

Fortunately, some judges can see beyond their own windshields. Kudos to a clear-eyed panel of the Manhattan appellate court for setting Madden straight by ruling: "It is undisputed that the power to issue parking permits rests in the exclusive control of the city."

In other words, enjoy the Q train, Mr. Chips - or suck it up and walk an extra couple of blocks.

[more at: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2011/09/23/2011-09-23_judge_joan_maddens_zany_decision_in_favor_of_principals_parking_placards_slapped.html]

You'll see a beige minivan and a white Prius in the photo. Both are misusing placards and using "official vehicles" as take-home cars. Worst of all, both are parking in a crosswalk without fear of being ticketed or towed.

The Prius is from the NYC Dept. of Small Business Services. At least it's a Prius, and at least the placard matches the plate. The minivan, as I just noted in the earlier post, is from CUNY's John Jay College of Criminal Justice, which ironically enough is supposed to educate people in the field of law enforcement.

I've been posting about this corner for nearly two years now.

http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/15307
http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/12780
http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/12261
http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/10734

The beige minivan represents a jackpot of chronic placard and official car abuse. Let's tick through the problems.

1) Parking in a crosswalk AND striped no-parking zone (for 12 hours a night).
2) Abuse of an "Official" Vehicle (as plated) for personal purposes - parking at home after business hours.
3) Abuse of placard to be used by someone engaged in "agency business."
4) Misuse of incorrect placard -- placard is for a different vehicle. The motorist decided to switch to the minivan this evening, but based on the given plate info is still using the placard for a black Impala shown in earlier posting (see links below).

Will NYPD ever enforce even the most obvious of these chronic violations? At a minimum, a car left overnight in a crosswalk should be towed, whether it has a placard or not.

I've been reporting on this for years now.

http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/12780
http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/12261
http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/10734

This BMW is CONSTANTLY parked in front of our building, directly obstructing the fire hydrant on the avenue side. Not a one-time occurrence--she continually parks there, day and night--I watched her park there this morning. Sometimes blocks the whole hydrant altogether. Leaves the car unattended, probably all day, and into the evening. NOT OK.

This Jeep has been making it a habit to park in Astoria, Queens just two feet away from a fire hydrant near my building practically all week. He also doesn't move on off-side parking days, so the street cleaner has to move around him. The street cleaner told my husband that he won't get a ticket, but we can complain to 311. There's an NYPD Bronx placard in the window. Perhaps they feel entitled to park there. They apparently never get tickets for off-side parking violations or for parking within two feet of a hydrant. When I call 311 to file a complaint, the Jeep disappears and then returns within a few hours to the same spot. Flagrant abuse of the privilege of being on the NYPD force and blatantly inconsiderate of the safety fellow NYC residents.

Woman in her 70's parked the vehicle about 4 ft from the hydrant and place a placard in the window with no permit#, Various plate? what? and some sort of a bs mini badge!!

If you park your late-model white Mercedes every day on a desolate block festooned with No Parking signs, do you think no one will ever notice? Especially if you obscure the expiration date of your permit? Guess what? People will in fact notice.

NY's Finest have continually used the Horace Harding Expwy service road as well as Junction Blvd from 59th Ave up to 62nd Ave (No Standing Anytime)as their personal parking spaces while there are more than an adequate amount of metered parking and garages to accommodate the neighborhood's entire population

Once again an abuse of the rules. First these guys manufacture their own placards which are honored by the 19th precinct - which of course sets a fine example by violating placard parking regulations themselves right next door.
Note they are using NYPD barricades.

Now these guys horde parking spots for their staff and security people when school is not in session. When school is not in session parking is permitted at any time in the school bus zone. Who do these guys think they're kidding??

http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/9003
http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/11745
http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/3888
http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/558

The Daily News and Transportation Alternatives did a story together highlighting the impossibility of placard enforcement. They put together a bogus placard and parked in three parking-starved locations: in front of City Hall, in Downtown Brooklyn, and in Times Square.

As expected, a piece of paper which has been laminated was enough to grant unlimited parking rights to its bearer.

The "sting" didn't turn up anything we didn't know: the Police can't fight fraudulent placards, because the placard system is broken. The sting did call attention to Councilman Garodnick's "Authentic Permit Act," which will require that official placards bear a bar code, so that law enforcement can distinguish fake placards from real placards in an instant.

Read the article here: www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/06/22/2011-06-22_its_scofflaw_101_li_with_a_few_fake_placards_were_able_to_park_all_over_city_for.html

On June 22nd, next Wednesday, the City Council Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on several parking enforcement bills, including Intro. 465, the Authentic Placards Act.

This bill, authored by Dan Garodnick and cosponsored by the majority of his colleagues on the Council, will reduce abuse of legal placards and the use of bogus placards by requiring all official placards to feature a bar code. Traffic enforcement agents already carry bar code scanners, and will be able to use these scanners to instantly determine a placard's authenticity.

This may be our best opportunity to win on this issue in years.

You can help! Come out to the hearing next Wednesday at 10 a.m. to speak to the issue of illegal placards and in support of Councilman Garodnick's bill. If you can't make it, please consider writing to the Chair of the Transportation Committee and your local Councilmember and let them know what you think about this problem.

Link to Intro 465: http://bit.ly/kknxI4
Details on the hearing: http://bit.ly/luzpPx
Councilman Garodnick: http://bit.ly/jzZjCS
Transportation Chair Vacca: http://bit.ly/mNKBAZ
Find your Councilmember: http://bit.ly/2mkI0P

This blue Hyundai is parked by a young lady every night as if it were her own personal spot. It must be nice to have that convenience, while the rest of the Upper East Side searches for spots.

The fact that this space is used by handicapped people, such as my elderly mother, seems to be of no consequence.

This is a common violation. This individual consistently parks his car in front hydrants, this is the first time I had a camera with me.

Illegally parked on 65th Street @ 18th Avenue in Brooklyn, NY on 5/24/2011. They were parked for 20 minutes while making a run for coffee.

An NYPD integrity officer lost a month's pay after his mother was caught using a copy of his police parking placard, the Daily News has learned.

The trouble began for Sgt. Edward Taveras this month when a cop spotted an NYPD-issued parking placard in his mother's windshield in Queens.

Police asked questions, and Mama started singing like a canary.

"She had a copy of the placard," a source said. "She said she got it from her son."

It wasn't clear what action, if any, was taken against Taveras' mother.

Taveras, an integrity control officer assigned to the Bronx narcotics unit, was suspended on May 10. Reached by phone last night, the 13-year veteran declined to comment. His lawyer didn't return calls.

The NYPD confirmed that Taveras had made a copy of his city-issued placard but provided no other details.

As an integrity control officer, Taveras is responsible for making sure the cops in his command don't abuse overtime or sick time. He also makes sure they're filing proper paperwork, among other things.

Transportation Alternatives, an advocacy group, reported last month that a quarter of the official placards used in the city were forged or expired. The city in 2008 cut by 40% the number of placards issued to various agencies.

Since then, the NYPD's vehicle placard unit, which is run by the Internal Affairs Bureau, recalled its estimated 65,000 placards. Then, according to a police source, it reissued about 43,000 of them.

[more at: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/05/19/2011-05-19_you_call_this_an_integrity_officer.html]

A rainy morning, therefore a nice time to use your out-of-state handicapped plates (invalid in NYC) along with a New York State Trooper Police Surgeon permit. The permit says at bottom that This vehicle is on official business. That seems highly unlikely. Isn't it just easier to pay for parking in legal areas instead of committing such egregious fraud?

I am really tired of out-of-state folks who use my streets, paid for with my tax dollars, to commit fraud.

[http://transalt.org/files/newsroom/streetbeat/2011/May/0512.html#bogus]

In the crosswalk, blocking the hydrant, all four wheels on the sidewalk -- in New York, with a vehicle and some detritus on the dash, you can park most anywhere. For two days last year, a white van was parked illegally in Times Square with no license plates and a bomb in the backseat. On the dashboard? A bogus parking permit. New York's parking permit problem is not just about equity of space on any given block; it's a matter of public safety.

According to a new T.A. report, more than 57 percent of parking permits are illegitimate. The report, Totally Bogus: A Study of Parking Permit Abuse in NYC, found a majority of government-issued parking permits were used to park illegally, and nearly half were counterfeit. From construction vests to union cards to slips of paper that just say NYPD; parking permit abuse is not only prolific, it has become a creative art.

This is not the first time T.A. has taken on New York's dirty parking secret. In two prior studies, T.A. uncovered massive abuse in the parking permit system and our exposés resulted in real change: In 2008, Mayor Bloomberg reduced the number of parking permits issued to elected officials and city agencies by 46 percent. But those cuts have proven not to be enough. In the report released last week, T.A. researchers found one in four parking permits within the study area was a sham. Expand T.A.'s study area to encompass all New York, and there are between 10,000 and 25,000 ersatz parking permits in use citywide.

There's only one way to finally roust all the fakers: Arm the city's parking space watchdogs, NYPD Traffic Enforcement Agents, with the tools to ensure every permit is a real one. That's why Councilmember Daniel Garodnick has introduced the Authentic Permit Act (Intro. 465) to mandate bar codes on all city-issued parking permits. When every true parking permit sports a set of digits to be scanned, forged permits will become futile.

The next step is a hearing in the City Council. Council Speaker Quinn can make bogus parking permits impermissible; T.A. has faith that her leadership will clear New York City's parking slate.

TAKE ACTION:
Ask Council Speaker Quinn for relief from parking permit abuse. The Authentic Permit Act needs a City Council hearing now.
http://www.transalt.org/takeaction/actioncenter/5308

We missed these when they were first released in late March, but DOT has come out with its preliminary recommendations for improving bus service in downtown Jamaica [PDF]. The plan calls for adding roughly a mile and a half of new bus lanes and beefing up an equal amount of existing lanes. It would also redesign two intersections and create new pedestrian space.

Anything that helps buses move quickly, smoothly and reliably through downtown Jamaica would be an enormous boon to Queens transit riders. Jamaica is both a subway hub and a job center unto itself, with 47 different bus routes running through the area. Archer Avenue carries more local buses than any other road in New York City, according to the DOT, with a staggering 180 buses per hour in each direction.

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Intriguingly, DOT’s proposal identifies the need to “relocate placard parking.” Placard users clog Jamaica’s streets, according to the recent Transportation Alternatives report “Totally Bogus.” Asking placard users to park somewhere else may not be too effective, however. Right now, 59 percent of placard users are using their permit illegally, according to that report.

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[more at: http://www.streetsblog.org/2011/05/16/dots-jamaica-plan-unclog-queens-transit-hub-with-1-4-miles-of-bus-lanes/]