This driver think his/her car is a taxi.

Parked most every morning right out side restaurant.

In the area surrounding the Chelsea Market you'll see a fair number of expired NYPD permits. This Scooby Doo-style van has one from Technical Support Services. Irrespective of their expired status—and Mayor Bloomberg isn't going to renew a lot of them, ever—this van owner has Pennsylvania plates and parks daily in a No Standing US Mail zone. Which means—if you bother to regularly observe the mail trucks trying to unload at this post office—they have to block traffic and/or the bike lane as a result. On the other side of Ninth Avenue, the street can't even be cleaned in the morning because so many vehicles sporting a variety of NYPD/federal permits park semi-permanently in the No Standing 7am-10am zone. Solution: garage those cars or take public transportation. And register your vehicle in New York State, please; it's the law.

This guy does not work for the post office, yet he has a post office placard, and parks in a No Parking Anytime zone reserved only for Post Office employees.

In one block (St. Nick between 123rd and 122nd), there were seven NYPD cruisers and personal vehicles parked in the bike lane. See this and other posts for photos of scores of NYPD personal vehicles parked on the sidewalk on the same block. Where are pedestrians and cyclists supposed to go?

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.

On the east corner of ninth avenue just south of 30th street, both a postal worker and a traffic control officer, parked in the two spaces for taxi relief. The DMV is more than 4 blocks away from this corner.

Parks Department has notified all holders of "East Drive" placards that they are invalid as of August 15, but this person doesn't care since her permit has been invalid for the prior 18 months.

Now that that Parks department has told holders of "East Drive" placards to move on, there are actually some open spaces on East Drive. But not for long. Nature (and uncivil servants) abhor a vaccuum, so this guy has moved in with his Uniformed Firefighter's placard that does not entitle him to park here.

Recently Parks & Recreation Department told all holders of "East Drive" P&RD placards that their placards were invalid as of August 15, 2007, and that they would need to reapply for a new permit based on need. Apparently some, like this guy, did not get the message, probably because they are not using a valid permit in the first place. Permit expired in 2006 and is good for a Chrysler, not this Mercedes (didn't know operating a carousel could pay so well!).

He's been parked here illegally for at least 2 days.

This guy lives in the neighborhood, yet has Jersey plates. And he parks in a Post Office permit only zone on East 13th between 1st Ave and Ave A. This zone is also frequently abused by local residents with fraudulent or stolen Post Office permits.

And the permit does not have a plate number on it, so who knows if he really is a cop?

In case you want one of your own, they usually leave those underneath mailboxes.

This home-printed permit is almost as ridiculous as the one in the SUV in front of this car.

In my last three trips through the southern portion of the Central Park bridle path, I have yet to find a car without a current permit. Plus, there are many, many fewer cars parked there. There still seem to be a few remaining 24/7 parkers, but most have left and those who remain at least have valid permits (like the guy in the inset photo, lower right, who moved his car just before this photo was taken after leaving it in the same spot for weeks: http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/1042) .

The improvement is undeniable. Thanks Central Park Precinct--that wasn't so hard, was it? And to all who said it couldn't be done . . . eat your heart out! The Central Park bridle path is no longer a place for public employees to dump their unneeded cars!

As we know, some the apparent LE commenters on this site have serious maturity issues, and were so threatened by my posts that they felt the need to insult me personally, and taunt me by insisting that nothing would change and with vows that they would park more often and more illegally in this spot. My message to them is . . . let's have an "honorable peace." I'll limit my posts from this spot to cases of serious abuse (24/7 with invalid permit or no valid permit at all). I'd rather parking at this spot was limited to just to valid commuter uses, but life is too short (and there are too many other hotbeds of placard abuse requiring my attention).

For those still mired their puerile rut--who may insist that nothing has changed, that I am proclaiming a false victory, the photo in this post presents a distorted picture, etc. . .--well, the proof is in my prior photos of the bridle path, taken before uncivilservants started, linked at the bottom. Before March 16, the illegally cars were overflowing from the perpendicular parking area as far east as the pedestrian overpass to the reservoir track. Folks familiar with this part of the park will know exactly what I mean. Now the parallel parking east of the perpendicular parking area has DISAPPEARED.
http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/633

http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/484

http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/486

http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/543

In addition, before March 16, at least 50% of these cars over all, and the vast majority of the cars parallel parked away from the designated parking area, had empty dashes. Just check out the posts from Central park using this query: http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/?sign=13. Now there are NO cars witn an empty dash.

This appears to be one of two cars that remain parked 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on the southern portion of the Central Park bridle path without a valid permit. Here he is at 8 pm on Saturday night, parked in the exact same spot he has been in for weeks, if not months. He did come by to do some maintenance on a weekend once (see the linked video below), but the car has not moved:

http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/853

http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/640

http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/708

http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/644

The Central Park precinct has my thanks for shooing away most of the other parking abusers over the two weeks since this site went live. All the LE who like to crow that there will never be parking reform in this spot can just learn to deal with it. Or, if it makes you feel better, you can post untrue comments about how there has been (and will be) no parking reform in this spot.

Apparently this is used as parking for an FDNY dispatch facility located nearby. There should be signage and placards that indicate the facility and the use.