Alternate Side Double Parking

I think that whole double parking thing is ridiculous! It's dangerous, uneccessary and one of those things thats selectively enforced. If you can't find a legal parking spot, than don't drive.

What about the firefighters double parked along St. Johns next to the firehouse? Is it less dangerous there?

And yes, I understand that this is something that the police have exactly ZERO control over, just saying.

i've heard it is selectively enforced but i don't think it's unnecessary. people 2x park b/c they have no other option .

This Topic has been discussed many times on here and I personally don't have the desire nor the stamina for a neverending discussion. Lets talk about Muggings or something.

bill c wrote: you have reason.

That line sounds like it was translated from French using babelfish.

I've been enraged by the double parking during alternate side issue before.

I will now relate a totally fictional account that is told in the first person, but is surely about someone who is not me:*

I don't own a car, but rented one last year and after much difficulty got a legal spot for the next day, when I had to return it. When I went to try to move the car, I was double parked in, and neither of the perpetrators had left a note. The car was due back before the alternate side hours were over, so I was totally pissed because this was going to cost me a late return penalty. After much honking, one of the people who parked me in came outside and moved her car and had the nerve to scold me for honking! I was able to get out around the other car, although not without totally crunching his headlight. Luckily, the rental was insured. If he'd left his number on the dashboard when he double parked me in, I might have been able to give him a call to let him know what happened.

*legal disclaimer

Old Time Brooklyn wrote: But I also think if you need to use your car during the sweeping hours ---> don't park on the side that's gonna get doubled in. Let someone else have that spot and park on the side that's gonna get swept and get up at 8:30 and go do your business.

utter horseshit

Old Time Brooklyn wrote: Why? Again, it's just courteous to all the other drivers. If you don't need to park on that side, why are you parked there?

It's called parking legally! Once again lets blame the victim for parking legally, not the idiots that are too lazy to find parking on another block.

daver wrote: What about the firefighters double parked along St. Johns next to the firehouse? Is it less dangerous there?

And yes, I understand that this is something that the police have exactly ZERO control over, just saying.

If you have a problem with the brave men and women that protect us knock on their door and tell them. Where should they park. I don't condone breaking the law. I just feel that they get a bad rap on this site and somebody needs to stick up for them. There must be a reason that they double park. Maybe they don't have enough spots for everyone. There's only one way to find out, give them a knock and ask. What's next, are we gonna complain about their loud sirens. I live on St. Johns Place, I have maid the effort to meet our local heroes and maybe some of you should too.

"Made." Just you never MADE a typo

joseph11 wrote: I don't condone breaking the law. I just feel that they get a bad rap on this site and somebody needs to stick up for them.

...So...you ARE condoning their breaking the law.

I DO respect "our brave men and women in uniform," by the way. I admire their efforts to hold themselves to a higher standard than the rest of us. And that is all the more reason why I am so disappointed when they ignore that standard.

King without a crown wrote: I hope you don't get too disappointed when the Firemen circle your block looking for parking while your house burns down.

....If this was directed at me, I assumed that it was understood we were talking about off-duty officers.

King without a crown wrote: I hope you don't get too disappointed when the Firemen circle your block looking for parking while your house burns down.

I didn't realize that the firemen didn't have a designated place for the fire engines. Or do they respond to a fire in their personal vehicles? :roll:

What enrages me is that most of the people on my block are too lazy to drive the five minutes it usually takes to find a parking spot on another block. They would rather prevent another person who parked lawfully from using his car for an hour and a half. It's contemptible. And nobody ever leaves a note with their phone number.

One time I came out of my building 10 minutes after the street was supposed to have been cleared out. My car had an $85 parking ticket, while the solid line of double-parked cars were untouched.

Parking is extremely tough in crown heights
I think the note is a good Idea. since I have lived on my block for several years I have gotten burned before by being blocked in when I had something to do, I knew the persons car I knocked on the door nobody answered so I left my car parked and took the bus pissed the entire day. And also like someone else said when I know I need my car I will not park it somewhere that I will get blocked in. Also I try not to double park cars that I don't know the owners. It is very inconsiderate to block someone in, I try not to, but sometimes I do when I go shopping or to the laundry and I know it will only be a second I run upstairs and come right back down.