Blocked hydrant. By a dirty cop. Welcome to life in the Dirty Five-Two.

You couldn't get these guys to do their job if their life depended on it - in fact, in this case, it sort of does. Fire hydrants stand between life and death, and here they have gotten a lot of use!

This is right on the shopping strip where two devastating fires gutted the community within the past year!!!

Given the context, this goes way beyond stupid. It is outright criminal. These dirty cops, breaking the law like it's the wild west, putting us at risk need to be fired.

We need a few people willing to act like professionals. We need people willing to do the work to earn a paycheck.

We need a few people who actually want to make our community safer.

no dice!

Seems to be parked all day most days and never any money in the meter. Never see a ticket.

I couldn't find the NYC Sheriff's Department on the pulldown for "select agency," but apparently there is one. There's also a little medalion on the placard that says (near as I can make out) "DSA268." Anybody know what that indicates? Anyway, it's authorized by the NYC Deputy Sheriff's Association...

I live in Parckchester, the Bronx, which suffers from congested parking. There is an officer who lives in the surrounding neighborhood who constantly parks her personal vehicle (a 2003 Honda accord coupe) in the public parking space in the complex which is metered parking. Not only does she not park her car there all day long without paying the meter but she parks in tow away zones, she parks her vehicle nose out which is a no-no (nose in towards the curb is mandated by the posted traffic sign), and on several occassions while other residents sit and wait for a parking spot to open up, she has defiantly grabbed the parking before the other drivers who have (waited several minutes or even an hour) can move in to park. I asked a neighbor who works for the NYPD Traffic department Parking Enforcement division, why traffic agents constantly allow her to get away with this bypassing her vehicle everytime and issuing summonses to others who mght just be a few minutes too late in putting quarters in the meter. His answer was simple and to the point, "It's illegal but no traffic agent will issue a summons to an officer of the NYPD for such a violation for fear of reprisal. there's an unwritten rule to turn a blind eye because traffic agents rely on the support of the officers when performing their duty. If traffic agents begin to issue summonses to Officers of the NYPD, traffic agents may not get the critical assistance they need if they encounter trouble on the streets."

He also informed me that Court Officers, and Corrections Officers get issued summonses all the time, but that it is up to the discretion of the agent to bypass their vehicle and show leniency. Newer agents just assume its bad business to issue any summonses to any law enforcemnet personnel period. However, very often that same professional courtesy is not returned to the agents by members of the NYPD Police Officers.

Looks like that Uniformed Firefighters Permit is not a Get Out of Jail Free card after all. By the way, license plates are required on the front and rear of all vehicles in New York State, even if you are one of the Bravest and own a BMW. Sorry that even you have to pay the meter like normal folk. And by the way: this parking space is nowhere near a fire house.

Using school permit at expired meter no where's near any school.