It's kind of hard to say from the photo that he's within 15 feet of the hydrant. If he is, it's pretty close.

This looks like its outside of the 15 foot realm. Why is this suspicious angle being used in this photo. The poster is stretching the truth here(pun extremely intended).

The Greenmarkets are run by a private "non-profit" organization. The permit allows the vehicle to park in a greenmarket. The poster obviously knows this and that summons have been issued for illegal street parking. So why is this post here other than to somehow cast a shadow of guilt on civil servants.

You'll have to take my word for it that it's within 15 feet of the hydrant. Even if it was more than 15 from the hydrant, it's illegally parked based on signage. This is abuse of a placard issued by the Department of Parks and Recreation, probably by a person not employed by the city. The point of this site is to reform a system in which placard holders are permitted to park illegally in order. Hence this post.

#7. So in your own statement, which part of "$270 in tickets" didn't you understand? That doesn't sound like being permitted to "park illegally" to me. Perhaps only by the twisted logic of the posters here.

#8, I dug a bit deeper into this guy's tickets and found that $205 of the $270 in tickets were for a missing inspection sticker. So those tickets may well have been written when the guy wasn't using the placard because he was parked legally, with an expired inspection. Check it yourself if you want: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dof/html/home/home.shtml

But let's imagine for a moment that the guy was ticketed four times with his placard up in the one month preceding the photo here. Obviously, those tickets did not deter him from placard abuse--here he is parked illegally. And its not hard to figure out why. Four tickets amounts to $460 at most, while a monthly garage space in this neighborhood costs about twice that with tax. So not only is he being allowed to park illegally, he's being encouraged to do so with a financial incentive. (The validity of my analysis depends on the assumption that he's parking illegally with the placard more often than 4 times a month, but that's a pretty safe bet).

Steve, that is absolutely brillant. Now we just have to find a play to put it in.

But seriously, Steve, that is the very same logic employed by the double parked contractor vans that clog every side street on the upper east side to a crawl, and all the delivery trucks that clog every side street in midtown to a crawl. Do you really think it is civil servants that are parked in all those spots at the curbs while their contractor vans and delivery trucks double park. Is this the broken window, the corrossive effect on community relations that you refer to in your campaign? You think those people on the upper east side could move their private cars from the curbs to a garage and similiarly in midtown so that their contractors and delivery trucks can park legally? Do you really think it is a accident that the Congestion Zone Map issued by Partnership for New York City shows traffic on the Upper East Side at an equally slow 12 miles per hour as midtown but yet doesn't include this area in the so called "Congestion Zone" (defined as below 60th Street)? In midtown, parking tickets are just refered to as the cost of doing business and every Trucking Company has a ticket advocate to go to court with hundreds of tickets and settles for pennies on the dollar. But this you proport is not the borken window, the corrosive effect on community relations?

I'm not sure I follow you, but I think I can respond. The double parked trucks are a serous problem on the UES, I agree. Large amounts of free curbide parking on the UES should be converted to metered parking at market rates ($2-$8 per hour, depending on the hour of the day or night). then the "parking tax" will fall more equally, instead of carless residents having to pay the passed-along costs of their delivery guy's tickets, while those with cars get free parking by circuling for hours or abusing permits.

I also agree that the City's use of parking tickets primarily as a source of revenue is also wrong, and I particulalry disagree with the stipulated fine program they have which has largely replaced the ticket broker system. There are other websites where those topics are discussed. On this site, we are talking about guys like in this post who abuse a placard issued by a city agency in an attempt to get TEA not to do their job, to treat them as exempt from the law. To the extent such attempts are not punished (with more than the occasional parking ticket from the TEA who doesn't give the "courtesy"), that is a problem. To the the extent such attempts actually do work, that is an even more serious problem.

Every night I stop by the deli and pour some salt in a cup of water and pour it on a different piece of the great lawn.thats my salute to you steve.Take a look at the dead spots and remember its just for you!!!!!!!

I think anonymous is missing the point. The 'uncivil servants' don't necessarily have to be those parking the cars, they can also be those not giving tickets to people disregarding permit laws.