The Brooklyn Sanitation Facility at 690 New York Avenue regularly has private vehicles of employees parked on the sidewalk on New York Avenue, Parkside Avenue and Winthrop Street. These vehicles bear an "off-street parking ID" but also says "not valid on New York City Streets" - Permit #03654 signed by Bernard Sullivan. This is an area where thousands are walking from Kings County Hospital and Downstate Medical Center to the Winthrop Street Station.

This one just has a union permit. Is that even a legal dash permit?
The employees of Fire Squad Co. 1 often park on the sidewalk near the fire house. This is ironic because a) there is a half block of reserved street parking for their private vehicles directly across from the fire house b) there is a public parking garage next door in case the free spots are taken and c) by parking (and driving!) on the sidewalk, they endanger the very citizens they are sworn to protect. Cars coming in and out of the garage can't see pedestrians because of personal FDNY cars on sidewalk. Ridiculous! 9/29/09 9:30 a.m.

The employees of Fire Squad Co. 1 often park on the sidewalk near the fire house. This is ironic because a) there is a half block of reserved street parking for their private vehicles directly across from the fire house b) there is a public parking garage next door in case the free spots are taken and c) by parking (and driving!) on the sidewalk, they endanger the very citizens they are sworn to protect. Cars coming in and out of the garage can't see pedestrians because of personal FDNY cars on sidewalk. Ridiculous! 9/29/09 9:30 a.m.

Illegal parking abounds around the 108th precinct. This is just one of the many examples.

Call Deputy Inspector Thomas J Kavanagh and tell him to clean up his mess: (718) 784-5411.

(the license plate on the permit doesn't even match the plate on the car here)

UFA members (supposedly) doing it again

UFA placards are not valid for use on City streets (or sidewalks for that matter!).

Police parked on the sidewalk at the 30th Precinct in Manhattan. Crudely typed permit. The parked vehicles occupy the entire north sidewalk forcing people to walk in the middle of the street.

The 30th Precinct has taken over the entire north sidewalk on 151st St., between Amsterdam Ave and Convent Ave.

This street under the Brooklyn Bridge is a city employee sidewalk parking paradise. Sad. of the more than 20 cars on the sidewalk permits range from NYPD, to DOT to Courts.

lame, lame, lame

13th precinct doing it again

Rules do not apply to the boss. As a state worker I hold a similar placard. I can not imagine any agency at this locataion worthy of a placard. For what its worth I was attending a training at Hanson place and took the train that day. Given the mentality of my agency I'd guess the owner of this vehicle is a leftover Pataki hack yet to be gotten to by Patterson. Pataki's people still run everything.

wait till see how many offenderes are really at his pct.
sidewalks
busstops
hydrant/sidewalk/crosswalks too

Not only does the USPS employee park on the sidewalk, but she is using somebody else's placard.

In general, the workers at this post office (Peter Stuyvesant Station) break the law daily with their cars -- parking on sidewalks, double parking, parking in No Parking Anytime zones, and, apparently, providing copies of USPS placards to local residents to enable more illegal parking.

Oh, and customer service at this post office is terrible.

Parked on the sidewalk and in the crosswalk.

Parked in the crosswalk and on the sidewalk.

mismatch in license plate. this is a chronic problem with this car in this location. since 311 calls are ineffective, the next step will be to call the USPS Office of Inspector General.

Car with invalid USPS placard (wrong license plate), parked on the sidewalk.

with invalid permit (different plate)

pretty typical in this spot. this car was parked here all day.

The police precinct across the street always takes advantage of whatever space they can. If it's not their private cars in front of the fire hydrant, it's their three wheeled carts on the sidewalk.

This entire block all the cop cars are parked on the side walk. I did not have time to walk down the entire block though taking pics.

A police handbook does not a parking placard make.

Six months ago I first posted photos of the daily parking violations of these state prison guards:
http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/2874
http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/2176
Six months later, they still park in the crosswalk, they still double and triple park, and now they even park on the sidewalk directly in front of signs that say: DANGER! DON'T PARK ON SIDEWALK AREA HOLLOW UNDERNEATH
Of course if their illegally-parked vehicles were to suddenly go crashing down into the abyss due to their illegal and negligent actions, they'd likely turn right around and sue the State of New York claiming they were required to drive their vehicles to work and were merely using [illegal] parking permits issued by their union!

It says right on this guy's permit that it is valid for No Standing zones, No Parking Anytime, and meters. I can't seem to find anything indicating that it is ok to park on the sidewalk, blocking the ramp to the curb. Someone in a wheelchair would have found this most unfortunate. It is also interesting that this is right next to BAM around evening showtime- I bet he was seeing a show.

Right on the sidewalk under No Standing Anytime sign

Last night I went to Borough Hall to attend an open house for the Downtown Brooklyn Transportation Blueprint Study. A priority initiative of the blueprint is the “introduction of a package of new effective strategies to deal with permit parking abuse in Downtown Brooklyn.” (action #19)

As I left the event, I noticed another car parked on the sidewalk outside Borough Hall that wasn’t there earlier. It stuck out from the other permit abusers who illegally park on the sidewalk because it belongs to Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz (the vanity license plates make this clear). It’s completely irresponsible for Marty to publicly flaunt his illegal parking while the City is trying to stop permit parking abuse. I think it’s even more outrageous that he would do this while DOT is inside, presenting initiatives to stop parking scofflaws like himself.

This guy likes to park on the sidewalk:

http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/3511

and also probably commit insurance fraud.

I didn't check for permits, but at PS 161 in Harlem on Convent Ave., these school staff park on the sidewalk every day; as with anything free and unrestricted, there's more cars parked on the sidewalk now than last spring. Another school 2 blocks south on Convent has zero cars parked on the sidewalk; I never see it there.

Also note the black SUV ahead, parked on the sidewalk (another USPS placard).

Pretty common with this post office. They often park on the sidewalk and double-park.

I suspect that this guy is also committing insurance fraud because he's had the same South Carolina plates for over a year. His older Cadillac also had South Carolina plates for several years. Something tells me he's not commuting from the The Palmetto State every day.

I filed a 311 ticket.

Hey, that's funny, I could have sworn that "parking on sidewalks" was not part of the contract....

They just can't get enough of the sidewalk.

Pedestraisn have to navigate cars ont he sidewalk here, everyday. I'm not sure whether a wheelchair could get through. And, of course, there is a pay lot right there.

The firefighters ought to have first dibs on all the legal parking spaces on this small half-block, and should be prevented from parking on the sidewalk or in the bike lane opposite the scene pictured in the photo.

these people park on the sidewalk just like this for last 2 years . many many 311 complaints cant get them ticketed or stop them from blocking the whole sidewalk make elderly and wheelchair bound go into the street into direct oncoming traffic

I'm sure this has been going on a while, but neither time nor painted yellow lines excuse NYPD 28th Precinct police from abusing the sidewalks and bike lanes around the precinct house. The photos speak for themselves, I think.

These guys love parking on the sidewalk, double-parking and not paying for meters.

The 52nd Precinct has a parking lot for NYPD officer's private vehicles, that is reached from the Mosholu Parkway bridge over the Metro-North tracks. But cops routinely use the sidewalk on the bridge as well. This sidewalk is also part of the Mosholu-Pelham Greenway path, so the efficient cops have found a way to interefere with both pedestrians and cyclists at the same time!

The employees at the Peter Stuyvesant Station Post Office on 14th/13th St frequently park official and private vehicles on the sidewalk. They double-park their private cars a lot too, especially during street cleaning, and spend a lot of time moving or sitting in their private cars, instead of working.

I haven't bothered to take any pictures until now.

There's also a few local residents with stolen/copied USPS placards, who park illegally with impunity.

I wonder whether this approach works. By the way, it is illegal to leave a piece of paper on a car like this in NYC.

Each day, a new car. This driver managed to avoid the crosswalk.

They came out in force on South Elliott Place in Fort Greene on Tuesday. The Black Crown Vic in the middle is parked on the sidewalk almost every day, the Taurus was previously reported, and bringing up the rear is a van with some workers or contractors. The area has many reserved spots for state vehicles, and is adjacent to almost every subway line in the city across the street at Atlantic Ave. and around the corner on Fulton Street.