There is a spot reserved in front of 23 Mercer Street for NYP plates. There are no time restrictions so it is effectively a permanent spot for this Volvo that is always parked there. I'm guessing the owner lives in the building. It has been there for 5 days straight now. Ridiculous. Pay for a parking lot like the rest of us!

Behold Mazie Mazda who drives in everyday from home to NYC where she has a wonderful free parking spot to park for free all day. She is not covering a news assignment at the location of said assignment in her reserved parking spot a privilege a local resident pays over $7000.00 a year for.

Mazie is joined by fellow FOX 5 employee Cretans enjoying their free all-day parking spot at resident expense. They are like cockroaches infesting you home. You spray them and they go to your neighbor. These un-enforced placard abusers are never ticketed and the signage is meaningless depriving local area residents curbside parking while they enjoy the free perk the taxpayers provide.

No amount of congestion pricing would discourage someone from driving in knowing they had a free reserved parking spot where they worked.

Mazie can be often seen on this block or in the general area in similar restricted parking areas with her fellow FOX 5 cretans parking all day and spending at most 30 seconds looking for a spot while residents are excluded in their own neighborhood from this curbside parking.

This is utter insanity. Press placards are only valid for three hours in a red signed press zone or at the scene of an assignment. They are not all day free parking permits to be used near the studio.

Running the motor, windows open, talking on phone. Obviously a major story is in the works from the driver of this oversized SUV, who probably wishes he were in Boulder CO where the action is at.

The media is always doing stories on how Cops park their personal cars…well look at this, a personal car of an employee of a TV station parking illegally. Not only is this car sticking out into traffic its in a NO PARKING area, The NYP parking is about 40 feet east.

This vehicle is is parked on a continuous basis in a No Parking/No Standing 7AM-7PM zone, typically in front of the entrance to 225 E 63 st, where it creates disturbances for deliveries, moving trucks, normal resident traffic, emergencies, etc.. This often creates excessive traffic and double parking in the middle of this busy street. As it does not move for days at a time and this happens repeatedly, the owner cannot possibly be on "Official Business" for the press in this residential area permanently therefore appears to be in violation of the spirit and privilege provided by this type of permit.

An egregious violation committed by an independent member of the media, using a press pass in your Audi to park in the No Standing zone during the morning rush hour in front of Bed, Bath & Beyond ought to be grounds to have your permit revoked. There's plenty of parking in the neighborhood, and assuredly your assignment as an independent journo is not so important as to merit breaking No Standing rules. Let the NYPD please clamp down on its permits.

.. doesn't mean freedom to park at a hydrant.

Installing a southbound bike lane between City Hall and the Brooklyn Bridge was a noble idea. Unfortunately, even on Sundays police and press vehicles clog this lane, making it dangerous for recreational bike riders to compete with traffic on this narrow roadway. Ironically, this photograph was taken at the same time a congestion pricing rally was underway on City Hall steps. Despite the Bike Lane and No Standing Anytime signs, it's an open secret that there's never any enforcement here.

WNYW Fox TV parked in the Centre Street bike lane

Another car from CBS, though perhaps not CBS radio. Permit on dash obscured by NY FOP card. Always good to leave multiple Fraternal Order of Police Active Supporter cards lying in view.

Nice to see the local cable news drives hybrid cars. Even if they park illegally.

One of 7 press cars parked for the day. Mr. Softee showed up later at 4:30 pm.

Press Vehicle in bike lane. Unknown news service since the permit was not displayed on dash. But a sponsor in good standing with the NYC PBA.

In the Bike Lane, No standing anytime. One of 7 press vehicles parked all day. No press permit displayed on dash.

Second Violation in the same week. Car still in the same spot 4 hours later. The only live news report going on in front of city hall, was a foreign news service that did not have a car parked nearby.

1 of 14 vehicles in the Centre Street bike lane. This vehicle was also observed in the same spot 5 hours later.

Here we have a FOX 5 employee parking in proximety of the studio with an expired placard in a NO PARKING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY zone for more that three hours. Three strikes and you're out.

Arnold Diaz, the famed FOX 5 shame on you reporter once again parking illegally in violation of his press placard, near the studio, not at the location of a news story and all day.

This is a NO PARKING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY zone. A press placard allows parking in a red signed NYP zone but only for three hours. It does not allow parking near the studio all day in a NO PARKING zone.

You can see him shame himself in an earlier post here:
http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/483

Metro Networks Press Vehicle parked in the Centre Street Bike lane on a friday afternoon. Hard to tell if the Permit is valid, hidden behind the inspection tag. Seems that the license plate in the front window may be expired.