Nemesis,
Please stop posting comments with stuff like "Blame the police" We're trying to create an online space where that kind of rhetoric doesn't belong.

This type of violation would generally have to be enforced by a NYPD Traffic Agent... as the vehicle would have to be observed initially parked, a notation made as to the location and time, then as they walk their assigned enforcement zone, return to the offending vehicle after 1 hr time and write the summons.

An officer on patrol will see the permit and move on... their primary role to respond to crimes, past or present. They will not have the time to return to this vehicle later on as most days they are generally answering the radio neraly non stop.

All that aside, call 311. If 311 assigns this illegal parker to a patrol car it is now a radio run like any other. Most likely the summons will be issued, although it may take more then one call (on different days) to ensure it does.

Unless you are talking to a captain or above in a local precinct calling direct will do you little good. Those that will take the calls for something like this will not prioritize it... it is not a pressing issue when you are trying to ensure all radio runs are being answered as quickly as possible.

Bowery Residents Committee also has these one-hour parking permits; I saw one of them in use yesterday on Lafayette Street near Houston. The vehicle was still there when I walked by a few hours later. I used to admire Bowery Residents Committee until their director hounded out CBGB's in the interest of squeezing maximum revenue out of their hot Bowery real estate. Sigh.

Do these people count as civil servants?

the ridiculous posts are making this site laughable! this could not be construed under any stretch of imagination as being a civil servant.

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Except that the permits are given out by the NYC DOT, and we can follow up with the permit holder through the permit.

Remember the vans we checked after 9/11? What if this van were being used by a terrorist, simple law enforcement could thwart potential plots. Nothing should be overlooked. Don't ever get too complacent.

Project Renewal helps keep the streets of NYC clean, they use these vans to transport their clients and their equipment. Who cares of their vans are at a meter too long? as long as they are not otherwise illegally parked??

#8 Help keep the streets clean???? Not in my neighborhood. Did you ever see what 2nd Avenue looks like on a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday morning after the previous nights crowd is finished? These guys don't move their vans for street cleaning. That makes them bad neighbors in my book. Did you ever try cleaning under a car that doesn't move in order to avoid a sanitation ticket? I have. It isn't fun.

As for parking overtime at a meter, their permits allow them one hour. Anything more than that is illegal. Ask the store owner paying thousands of dollars of rent a month how they feel about Project Renewal's abuse of the metered spots.

There should be a crack down on these phony charities. If you ask the people on the street collecting coins in the water jugs, they'll tell you they keep the money.