This vehicle has blocked the walkway to fit their car in as tight as possible.
Obviously everyone else receives a ticket but this one continues to park on top of other cars at the corners.

Another dirty cop blocking a crosswalk in the Dirty Five-Two.

The people who pay taxes in this precinct get ticketed if they don't move their cars on time (early, actually, but whose clock is the judge going to believe). Meanwhile, the people they pay park wherever they want, no matter how dangerous and inconvenient to the people they swore to serve and protect.

Once again, some are breaking the law, the others are letting them do it. And none of them are honestly earning their living.

So when I got to the subway this morning, there was a dirty wannabe cop blocking the wheelchair ramp on the corner.

(For additional detail, the crossing is at an angle, and the vehicle fully blocked the crossing, even though the picture from a single perspective only shows it encroaching "a little" on the actual handicap ramp.)

Of course, the Dirty Five-Two lets him get away with it.

Really, as long as you pay homage to the NYPD, it looks like the Dirty Five-Two will let you park anywhere you want.

There was no official placard in the windshield (not that it would have been any more legal). Instead, there was an NYPD patch and a Civilian Handbook from the NYPD.

It is scary if this is the type of person who wants to become a cop - some guy who can't be bothered to walk a block or two to get a legal, safe parking space.

This joker should be put on a Do Not Hire list! Right after they ticket and tow his car, that is!!!

John Jay College exists to teach aspiring police officers and prosecutors how to enforce the law. Presumably there are a number of courses that emphasize why it is important for all members of society to uphold the law. Ironically, one member of the college community believes that the importance of upholding the law applies only to those who lack the privileged status of a government-issued parking permit on a government-issued car.

The agency business permit displayed on the dashboard of this minivan has the license plate of the black four-door Chevy Impala that is usually parked here.

(See previous posts:

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

http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/10734 )

This minivan also has official plates, so my guess is the Impala is in the shop and its owner borrowed another John Jay car to drive home for the night. Because the thought of actually riding the D train, which goes right from John Jay College to this location, must be unbearable.

The agency business permit being abused in this case is supposed to be used for no more than three hours, and only for business purposes. Cars with official plates are supposed to be used by government officials "in the course of their official duties." But this car is usually parked all night and on weekends in a no-parking zone. I'll give its driver a small amount of credit for trying to avoid blocking the crosswalk as much as possible while still parking illegally.

So here we have what I suspect is a violation of the use of an official car, a placard use violation, and the wrong placard in the wrong car. Will any of this ever be enforced? Of course not. Therefore, DOT needs to raise the striped no-parking area into a sidewalk extension/bulb-out. The only way to truly prevent parking abuse is to make it physically impossible.

Note the Mercedes to the left that is also violating the no-parking zone. (This was during a Yankee game.) The driver was in the car at the time this photo was taken, so presumably he'd move if asked. Not that that makes it any better.

Blocking crosswalk in the middle of the street

Since we last checked in ( http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/10734 ) on this apparent plate abuser / placard abuser from John Jay College, nothing has happened except he or she has updated his or her placard after the old one expired on Feb. 1, 2010.

PLACARD VIOLATION:

This is an Agency Business Parking Permit that is to be used for no more than 3-hours at a time while on official agency business. Yet, the car is parked overnight most nights and all day on weekends in a residential neighborhood 100 blocks north of the campus.

PLATE VIOLATION:

This person is using a car that has official plates. According to the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles ( http://www.nydmv.state.ny.us/forms/mv653.pdf ): "A vehicle assigned Official plates must be owned or controlled by a political subdivision and operated by its employees, or specifically designated agents thereof, in the course of their official duties."

It seems unlikely that this car is being used for official duties, violating both the reason for having official plates and the Agency Business Parking Permit. However, there is the possibility that this is legit. Besides parked next to a number of apartment buildings, the car is also being parked across the street from the Bronx County Courthouse. Is there is some reason why a person from John Jay College would need to have a car parked across the street from the Bronx County Courthouse during nights and weekends? It is not inconceivable. If that is the case, I will stand corrected and withdraw this allegation of misuse of placard and plates. Only the UncivilServants FOIL request can help answer that question.

A FINAL NOTE OF IRONY:

John Jay College trains students to become law enforcement personnel. It is a little ironic that a member of that school is apparently failing to uphold the law in his or her own personal life. This pretty much speaks to the larger problem here, no?

I probably wouldn't care that much about this situation if the car wasn't always parked in the crosswalk.

wrong plate, wrong precinct, wrong idea

Get this guy a map.

[not exactly a crosswalk, but still illegal]

The very next day he parked halfway in the crosswalk and left it there for 2 days!

Safe bet that the driver of this vehicle was at the Yellow Hook Grill (in Bayridge) right accross the street, not on any errand of mercy for the BSSP (Brooklyn South Safety Patrol Shomrim - Boro Park) I don't know why, but that grill tends to attract placard abusers. Either that or there is a statistically unlikely frequency of emergencies within 20 yards of their front door... Especially around midnight (as in this case) when nothing else around is open and parking is hard to find.

Here we have a case where someone who is supposed to use a car for "agency business" for periods of no more than three hours actually takes the car home each night and parks it in a crosswalk. This placard is issued by John Jay College, which is located at Tenth Avenue and 58th Street in Midtown Manhattan. However, this vehicle is parked 100 blocks to the north during non-business hours.

I frequently see this car parked when I pass through there on my way to work between the hours of 6:15 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. It always looks like it has been there for hours.

This car is parked in a striped/painted bulb at the corner connecting two crosswalks to the sidewalk. No vehicles are allowed to park in this striped area. However, the placard-bearer evidently believes that his or her placard puts him or her above the rules.

In these photos, this vehicle is partially blocking one of the crosswalks. On some mornings, the blockage is more severe.

still can't park correctly, or legally

Parked at the above location.
Harbor Cop.
No water in sight except for rain.
Parked in No Parking Zone AND in the crosswalk.

No Ticket on car. Go fightin' 9th!

Red Nissan 4-door Sentra GXE sedan blocks almost the entire crosswalk.

expired permit for NYPD: Housing Borough Manhattan-IRT blocking a crosswalk

Too special for the law, apparently.

The placard's missing a license plate as well.

Here he is again. Same ole safety hazzard, parked in the crosswalk. Same old stunt.

Why this executive officer placed his business card in the window of his Mercedes and parked it in the crosswalk at Pinehurst Avenue and 183rd St. It even gives his email address.

This car regularly parks in the pedestrian crosswalk. I often encounter it here in the morning and over weekends.

I've filed several 311 complaints and have gotten no response.

This car shows up at least 3 times a week in the same place--in the crosswalk. This is a very busy crosswalk used by most of SI Ferry commuters on their way to the 4/5.

Appears that the placard is not legal (judging by the list of legal permits on this site). At a minimum, the car is illegally blocking the crosswalk.

This is within the Blue Zone at the corner of Bridge and Whitehall Streets.

When you work on the inside, sometimes everyone on the outside seems like a potential perp or menace. You wind up not giving a damn. This parking job by state prison guards sure defies logic: three vehicles are blocking the crosswalk, making this befuddled pedestrian wonder where to cross the street.

Come on, folks -- you need to park on the sidewalks AND the crosswalks too? Or it's just so cold that you want to be as close to the front door as possible? Bet it's even colder for that pedestrian, who probably wasn't the only one to try to cross the street today.

A woman stepped in front of the main shot, but this car was parked several feet into the crosswalk. To NYPD's credit, the guy got a ticket.

In a previous post - http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/2176 - I noted how this exact same car enjoys parking in the intersection. Other prison guards enjoy sidewalk and double parking around the Bayview correctional facility, and today we've ratcheted up the special privileges another step: parking official state vehicles right in the crosswalk, over the curb. What will these clever folks think of next? M14 and M23 buses stop right nearby, and these buses are apparently good enough for the executives at InterActiveCorp down the street. Those families coming to visit their loved ones in prison; those folks going to Chelsea Piers across West Street; and those employees of Bermuda limousine directly across West 20th street are constantly inconvenienced by these über-entitled prison guards and staff who daily park with impunity. If the guards were not entitled to violate City parking regulations, the State would have ample places to park its vehicles necessary for prisoner transport. Warden, you've got a mission to take corrective action. This isn't rural Hamilton County in the Adirondacks -- it's a densely-populated city whose residents ought to be able to walk on their sidewalks.

Ah, the crosswalk.

Parking in a crosswalk!

But wait, there's more!

You'll also receive, at no extra charge, parking on the sidewalk too!

Now what would you pay?!

$230? $115?

Nothing! Because you're above the law!

(Hurry, this is a limited time offer. Sorry, not available to "ordinary citizens".)

Red SUV with NYPD permit parking parked on pedesterian X-ing on 35th Str (corner with Dyer Ave), by the entrance to Lincoln Tunnel.

YEAH, HERE WE GO AGAIN... DOUBLE WAMMY... JUST NO CONSIDERATION...

Thursday, April 26, 2007, 1:32:36 PM

DRIVEWAYS? PARKWAYS? SAME THING... I'LL PUT IT WHERE EVER I FEEL LIKE.... HAHAHA... "YEAH, WE'LL SEE"THIS WAS TAKEN ON... Thursday, April 26, 2007, 1:33:32 PM

Sorry for the terrible picture quality.

Area is clogged on a daily basis with illegaly parked vehicles.

This driver blocks two sidewalks everytime he parks. Apparently his official state business is done at his home on the lower east side. He parks here every night when he is in town and every weekend.

This DOB vehicle was both illegally and dangerously parked at the corner of Reade and Hudson Streets in Tribeca

This one was so outrageous I had to take a picture with my phone. This person is parked on the cross walk on a Sunday afternoon when lots of other parking was available. I saw a disabled guy have to walk into the intersection to get back onto the sidewalk. Argh!

This is the third NYPD car I've found parked in the same crosswalk. Keep up the good work.

Car was parked on 5-11-07 at 5:20 PM inn a crosswalk and near a fire hydrant and in a No Parking Anytime zone with a parking permit for the 75 precinct. It was parked at Seventh Ave and 1st St which is in the 78 precinct. I guess the official business was which restaurant to go to without finding a legal spot.

Handicapped SUV with placard blocks a crosswalk. The car next to it is a town car waiting for someone at the Marriott.

The SUV was there for 3 hours.

A week after the last sighting, this fellow is again parked in the non-space he routinely occupies -- in a crosswalk, too close to a hydrant, and with an illegal permit -- and why shouldn't he? He can flout the law with impunity, thanks to traffic officers who won't ticket him and a precinct captain who won't make those in his command obey the law. It's ordinary cronyism, ordinary corruption -- quite conventient, and a real penny-saver: no costly garage bills.

This car efficiently violates three laws simultaneously -- parked in a crosswalk, parked too close to a hydrant, illegal use of permit -- at the north-east corner of 93rd St. & West End Avenue. It occupies this non-space scores of times a year, and has for the past few years, never receiving a ticket.

So, props to this guy (or gal) for carefully not blocking the sidewalk or the crosswalk (a frequent practice here near the house of detention). But I guess nobody reminded them that it's illegal to park in the middle of the intersection.

There's no violation code for "parked in intersection" (who could imagine doing this?) so it's coded "parked in crosswalk".

[Admin note: we absolutely do not condone provoking confrontations of this sort. This is a great way to be injured, arrested or worse. At the same time, the response by the illegal parkers described is unacceptable and shows that the use of this illegal parking has become institutionalized.]

Sometime ago a few of us who deplore the sidewalk parkers of the Conservatory Gardens took it upon ourselves to do something about it. What we did was decided to block the only crosswalk cut out being used to enter the sidewalk with our own personal cars. It would intail myself or a friend parking there in the a.m and refusing to move for any car that wanted to park on the sidewalk. On the first day we were ordered by a park ranger to move but he had no jurisdiction to move us. I implored him to call the real police and he just walked away. By the end of day one, we had won and denied them access to the sidewalk but on day two it was a loss for us. What the employees of the Parks and Recreation did was park a suburban truck in the crosswalk and left it there all day. I watched as when one of their own wanted access to the sidewalk they would go get the owner of the car from 1 E 104 street and move it. They were using this car as a gate.
To bad for them I was there to catch their illegal activities.(see above foto) These dastardly employees of the park will do anything to park on the sidewalk. Who the hell do they think they are?

We need some sort of intervention by the city Govt before matters reach an extreme boiling point at this spot.

Blocking the crosswalk and the sidewalk surely is an infraction in this city? Isn't it?

This firefighter parked his car on a Sunday morning on Pitt Street and Delancey blocking the pedestrian crossing.

Note the NYPD van across the street blocking that crosswalk too.

This guy continues to think that this crosswalk is his designated spot. He must figure that's why nobody else parks there.

Both private cars, both with self-enforcement zone permits for Brooklyn Court Section

The streets here are so narrow, and now some guy on "official" business is blocking the street further. The permit has a 3 hour limit, but judging by the windshield covered with snow, he has been here alot longer.