I bet they could fit one more car in there, if it just went up on the sidewalk a little. Love the giant scab rat in the background!

As I've stated previously, I admire what you folks are doing, but there is no need to post the plates of private vehicles when the permit will ID the offender to the agency in question.

Not everyone is law abiding and just trying to correct traffic and parking conditions. Some will use this information to ID the officers these vehicles belong to, and some may wish to do them harm.

That being said, keep up the good work. No one should be parked in a cross walk.

Aren’t all of these pictures that you have posted either adjacent to, or across the street from, the Brooklyn Criminal Court? Isn’t this where theses vehicles are supposed to park? Do you believe that these vehicles should not be parked outside the criminal court? Where should police vans transporting prisoners park? Should they look for parking ten blocks away from the criminal court, and escort shackled prisoners through “your precious” neighborhood? What kind of complaints would that generate to 311?

It is not lost on some of us that the Department of Education at 110 Livingston has been sold to private developers. Do you think there’re spending all that money on renovating it to make affordable housing for the types of blue collar people who work in this area? Do workers have any rights in your eyes? Or is it only the landed gentry such as j_on_state?

Here’s an idea for all you rich up and coming types who are clearly spearheading this drive against the civil SERVANTS, who do your business, why don’t you do like the developers who have purchased 110 Livingston from the city have done, and use your money to purchase all of the city-owned buildings in the area, and move out the government agencies all together (where they would go is anyone’s guess), that way everyone by the “former” criminal court could chase out the “down-trodden”, and make this area “more acceptable” to the new development model.

You people move into municipal civic centers that have been where they are for decades, and then you complain that there are a lot of municipal vehicles around? Does that make any sense?

Did you people consider that before your forced the previous residents (who didn’t complain) out, to buy or rent all of these lovely brownstones you so recently have discovered?

Its like moving next to the sanitation land fill, and then complaining about the smell and high volume of city owned garbage trucks, or moving next to a nuclear power plant, and then joining a protest to ban the very reactors that were there before you even moved in. Or, you could just not move near the “nuisance”. But no, you have to be close to work, so you could easily take your mass transit the 10 to 15 minutes that it takes you to commute from downtown Brooklyn to Manhattan.

I wonder what kind of complaining is going to happen when the Department of Corrections re-opens the Brooklyn House of detention. The complaints to 311 will be “there are some many criminals over here. Its not safe for me and little Jimmy”, “why are all these people standing on Atlantic avenue making noise? Oh, there waiting to see criminals, we have to put a stop to that! Call the Mayor.

There was an article years ago about J in one of the papers bitching and moaning how the NYSJ spots in front of her brownstone were taking up precious space that could be used by her personal vehicle and others on her block on State Street.
Now that the parking regs changed, she wants it all. Apparently when J moved into the area (in the mid 80's) the area was a depressed sh--hole. Drugs, homeless, abandoned buildings, etc. You couldnt give these crumbling buildings away. I am sure she appreciated the LE presence during those years but now, the court buildings have become an eyesore to her.
Her happy day is when the eyesore that is 120 Schermerhorn is closed and the Criminal court building moves to E. NY or Canarsie.

To "Legal Aid Mike" and "Anonymous commenter" on 3/20, you've got it all wrong.

I love the police. I really do. You guys do a great job, and if they want to give you a raise, or free parking passes in city lots, or exemption from city income taxes, I'm all for it.

But when anyone - police or civilian - parks in crosswalks, intersections, or at hydrants, that endangers me, my family, and my neighbors. When I see mothers navigating their strollers into traffic because the crosswalk is completely barricaded, while I still think NYPD is amazing, I don't feel so sympathetic to the jerk who parked there.

Cops are great. Cops keep us safe. No argument. I've been to the precinct community council meetings and told many of you that in person. I really think the NYPD is the best police department in the world, so don't try to make this about cops vs. cop-haters.

If I say cops shouldn't be allowed to drive drunk, does that mean I don't appreciate the job you do? This is about respecting your neighbors. I wouldn't do something selfish to endanger your kids, so please don't do something selfish to endanger mine. That's all I'm saying.

I've never complained about someone having the wrong kind of permit for that spot, for blocking the court or jail driveway, etc. That's too nit-picky for me. My *ONLY* concern is the permit violations that endanger public safety. Keep the crosswalks and hydrants clear and you'll never see another post from me.

Officers, please keep up the fantastic work. You are deeply appreciated by this city. But please think about where you park, and if you see one of your buddies parking in the crosswalk or at a hydrant, please ask him/her not to.

(FYI, I am very excited that much of the new construction on Schermerhorn will be "affordable housing for the types of blue collar people who work in this area", and really hope many cops can take advantage of it. And to correct the record, I'm not rich, not a developer, don't have a "personal vehicle", and am not a "she".)

Oh, and I just edited the post to remove the permit and plate numbers. I didn't consider that that info could potentially be used by bad guys.

I will be sure my future posts don't include info like that and I'll blur the license plates on the main photos before uploading them. Other posters, please do the same.

#3. Completely agree. The people at TA and their ilk are just a bunch of anarchist trust fund scummers with nothing to do and too much time to do it.

Everyone knows that cycling is not a viable transportation alternative in NYC's climate extremes except for the idle set to shoot from the cafes in williamburg to the cafes on the LES on their black tape covered custom made titanium Lightspeeds.

They rant about the enviornment but every tree on Clinton Street has a bicycle or two chained to it.

These people have absolutely nothing to contribute to society. Their attack on hard working civil servants is just a ruse to snatch up real estate for the capitalist pigs who raised them and drove them to elite boarding schools in Hummers and then dumped them to infest our neighborhoods like cockroaches with pocket change to keep them in lattes. .