Too special for the law, apparently.

The placard's missing a license plate as well.

Here he is again. Same ole safety hazzard, parked in the crosswalk. Same old stunt.

Why this executive officer placed his business card in the window of his Mercedes and parked it in the crosswalk at Pinehurst Avenue and 183rd St. It even gives his email address.

This car regularly parks in the pedestrian crosswalk. I often encounter it here in the morning and over weekends.

I've filed several 311 complaints and have gotten no response.

This car shows up at least 3 times a week in the same place--in the crosswalk. This is a very busy crosswalk used by most of SI Ferry commuters on their way to the 4/5.

Appears that the placard is not legal (judging by the list of legal permits on this site). At a minimum, the car is illegally blocking the crosswalk.

This is within the Blue Zone at the corner of Bridge and Whitehall Streets.

When you work on the inside, sometimes everyone on the outside seems like a potential perp or menace. You wind up not giving a damn. This parking job by state prison guards sure defies logic: three vehicles are blocking the crosswalk, making this befuddled pedestrian wonder where to cross the street.

Come on, folks -- you need to park on the sidewalks AND the crosswalks too? Or it's just so cold that you want to be as close to the front door as possible? Bet it's even colder for that pedestrian, who probably wasn't the only one to try to cross the street today.

A woman stepped in front of the main shot, but this car was parked several feet into the crosswalk. To NYPD's credit, the guy got a ticket.

In a previous post - http://nyc.uncivilservants.org/post/index/2176 - I noted how this exact same car enjoys parking in the intersection. Other prison guards enjoy sidewalk and double parking around the Bayview correctional facility, and today we've ratcheted up the special privileges another step: parking official state vehicles right in the crosswalk, over the curb. What will these clever folks think of next? M14 and M23 buses stop right nearby, and these buses are apparently good enough for the executives at InterActiveCorp down the street. Those families coming to visit their loved ones in prison; those folks going to Chelsea Piers across West Street; and those employees of Bermuda limousine directly across West 20th street are constantly inconvenienced by these über-entitled prison guards and staff who daily park with impunity. If the guards were not entitled to violate City parking regulations, the State would have ample places to park its vehicles necessary for prisoner transport. Warden, you've got a mission to take corrective action. This isn't rural Hamilton County in the Adirondacks -- it's a densely-populated city whose residents ought to be able to walk on their sidewalks.

Ah, the crosswalk.

Parking in a crosswalk!

But wait, there's more!

You'll also receive, at no extra charge, parking on the sidewalk too!

Now what would you pay?!

$230? $115?

Nothing! Because you're above the law!

(Hurry, this is a limited time offer. Sorry, not available to "ordinary citizens".)

Red SUV with NYPD permit parking parked on pedesterian X-ing on 35th Str (corner with Dyer Ave), by the entrance to Lincoln Tunnel.

YEAH, HERE WE GO AGAIN... DOUBLE WAMMY... JUST NO CONSIDERATION...

Thursday, April 26, 2007, 1:32:36 PM

DRIVEWAYS? PARKWAYS? SAME THING... I'LL PUT IT WHERE EVER I FEEL LIKE.... HAHAHA... "YEAH, WE'LL SEE"THIS WAS TAKEN ON... Thursday, April 26, 2007, 1:33:32 PM

Sorry for the terrible picture quality.

Area is clogged on a daily basis with illegaly parked vehicles.

This driver blocks two sidewalks everytime he parks. Apparently his official state business is done at his home on the lower east side. He parks here every night when he is in town and every weekend.

This DOB vehicle was both illegally and dangerously parked at the corner of Reade and Hudson Streets in Tribeca

This one was so outrageous I had to take a picture with my phone. This person is parked on the cross walk on a Sunday afternoon when lots of other parking was available. I saw a disabled guy have to walk into the intersection to get back onto the sidewalk. Argh!

This is the third NYPD car I've found parked in the same crosswalk. Keep up the good work.

Car was parked on 5-11-07 at 5:20 PM inn a crosswalk and near a fire hydrant and in a No Parking Anytime zone with a parking permit for the 75 precinct. It was parked at Seventh Ave and 1st St which is in the 78 precinct. I guess the official business was which restaurant to go to without finding a legal spot.

Handicapped SUV with placard blocks a crosswalk. The car next to it is a town car waiting for someone at the Marriott.

The SUV was there for 3 hours.

A week after the last sighting, this fellow is again parked in the non-space he routinely occupies -- in a crosswalk, too close to a hydrant, and with an illegal permit -- and why shouldn't he? He can flout the law with impunity, thanks to traffic officers who won't ticket him and a precinct captain who won't make those in his command obey the law. It's ordinary cronyism, ordinary corruption -- quite conventient, and a real penny-saver: no costly garage bills.

This car efficiently violates three laws simultaneously -- parked in a crosswalk, parked too close to a hydrant, illegal use of permit -- at the north-east corner of 93rd St. & West End Avenue. It occupies this non-space scores of times a year, and has for the past few years, never receiving a ticket.

So, props to this guy (or gal) for carefully not blocking the sidewalk or the crosswalk (a frequent practice here near the house of detention). But I guess nobody reminded them that it's illegal to park in the middle of the intersection.

There's no violation code for "parked in intersection" (who could imagine doing this?) so it's coded "parked in crosswalk".

[Admin note: we absolutely do not condone provoking confrontations of this sort. This is a great way to be injured, arrested or worse. At the same time, the response by the illegal parkers described is unacceptable and shows that the use of this illegal parking has become institutionalized.]

Sometime ago a few of us who deplore the sidewalk parkers of the Conservatory Gardens took it upon ourselves to do something about it. What we did was decided to block the only crosswalk cut out being used to enter the sidewalk with our own personal cars. It would intail myself or a friend parking there in the a.m and refusing to move for any car that wanted to park on the sidewalk. On the first day we were ordered by a park ranger to move but he had no jurisdiction to move us. I implored him to call the real police and he just walked away. By the end of day one, we had won and denied them access to the sidewalk but on day two it was a loss for us. What the employees of the Parks and Recreation did was park a suburban truck in the crosswalk and left it there all day. I watched as when one of their own wanted access to the sidewalk they would go get the owner of the car from 1 E 104 street and move it. They were using this car as a gate.
To bad for them I was there to catch their illegal activities.(see above foto) These dastardly employees of the park will do anything to park on the sidewalk. Who the hell do they think they are?

We need some sort of intervention by the city Govt before matters reach an extreme boiling point at this spot.

Blocking the crosswalk and the sidewalk surely is an infraction in this city? Isn't it?

This firefighter parked his car on a Sunday morning on Pitt Street and Delancey blocking the pedestrian crossing.

Note the NYPD van across the street blocking that crosswalk too.

This guy continues to think that this crosswalk is his designated spot. He must figure that's why nobody else parks there.

Both private cars, both with self-enforcement zone permits for Brooklyn Court Section

The streets here are so narrow, and now some guy on "official" business is blocking the street further. The permit has a 3 hour limit, but judging by the windshield covered with snow, he has been here alot longer.

Once again, NYPD restricted placard holder parking a car with plates that do not match the plate designated on the placard, in the crosswalk and blocking the curb cut. Inconveniencing and endangering wheelchair users and other pedestrians. The cars parked on either side of this guy are partially in the crosswalk as well.

This curb cut in the southern leg of the crosswalk at CPW and 61st Street is often blocked by NYPD transit vehicles.

This permit entitles the holder to park a car with plates C**-***9. However the owner (or someone else) is using the permit to park a different vehicle, with plates A**-***9. Putting this mismatch aside, the more immediate problem (especially if you are a wheelchair user) is the parking in the crosswalk that completely blocks the curb cut.