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Anyone park their car on Prospect between Carlton and Vandy? — Brooklynian

Anyone park their car on Prospect between Carlton and Vandy?

innocent x
innocent x
edited November -1 in Prospect Heights
Just curious. I'm considering starting a crusade against parking hogs so want to get some insight into why people park selfishly when we have such a parking shortage up here.

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  • fjord
    fjord
    I'm considering starting a crusade against parking hogs so want to get some insight into why people park selfishly when we have such a parking shortage up here.
    How does one park selfishly? I am guessing you mean those folks who'll park their vehicles and not move them until they have to? Or people who don't live in the nabe and either take the Q or B train home/to their cars, or those who simply cross Flatbush from Park Slope to park?
  • innocent x
    innocent x
    Bad guesses.
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    Innocent X wrote: Bad guesses.
    maybe you should clear it up. the question is valid.
  • innocent x
    innocent x
    I'll clear up what I'm talking about if and when I get some people who park on that block. Not that it's a problem that's exclusive to that block but I don't really care about any other one.
  • whyfi
    whyfi
    Innocent X wrote: I'll clear up what I'm talking about if and when I get some people who park on that block. Not that it's a problem that's exclusive to that block but I don't really care about any other one.
    No, the problem isn't exclusive to that block and neither are the reasons for the behavior, I'd wager. If you have some repeatable solution and others can provide some insight, I don't see where the hang-up is... unless you're fishing for someone specific on the boards...
  • joseph11
    joseph11
    I park there every week, only moving when I have to and yes I do not live on that block. I just you got a problem with me
  • fjord
    fjord
    Bad guesses.

    Hmmm....is that right?
    Okay then....One more. I'd wager that people who are poor parallel parkers to be the culprits—where there's five feet on either side of their car, therefore negating a space that a compact could squeeze in if they parked right on someone's bumper. It then becomes pandemic! And there's several spots negated by a slew of bad or lazy parkers.
  • innocent x
    innocent x
    Close I suppose. It's not parallel parking really. It's on the days of alternate side when people re-park their cars on the empty side of the street. So many spots are lost because of the way people park. And it's either not going to the end of the block, not going close to the car in front of you, whateverr. I guess people want to park in front of their house or something and start the re-parking in the middle of the block which fucks everything up. It's asinine. And like I said, selfish. It's been driving me crazy and then some woman gave me shit today for parking too close to her trunk in case "I need to get something out of there." And this is a person who left 10 feet from her front bumper to the next car. I just don't get it. If we all park up here we understand the shortage of parking spots. So why --- knowing that information --- would you park like a selfish moron?
  • king without a crown
    king without a crown
    Maybe if people didn't need to "feel" their way into a parking spot by ramming into the bumpers of the cars in front and the rear of them, people wouldn't have to leave such large spaces inbetween them. On the flip side, I saw a car wedged between 2 cars in front of 186 prospect place the other day with not even a C**T Hair of space between the other parked vehicles.
  • fjord
    fjord
    so let's determine the *proper* amount of space one should give another vehicle when parallel parking. for the hell of it.

    One should be able to circumambulate their vehicle: Not shimmy sideways through, but walk completely around the front and back. 14'' to 2' (to allow for max use of street). If you cannot get your car out with this much room without scratching up your neighbor's ride, you need to take a look at your technique....
  • gypsy
    gypsy
    Discussing this is a complete waste of time. There is no way that extra spaces between parked cars is due to people being "hogs" or not knowing how to park. This happens naturally because cars come and go on a block throughout the day and night and there is no way to regulate this. One morning I received a very condescending note from a "neighbor" asking me next time to move my car up a bit in order for another car to park. Huh? there was a car directly in front of me when I parked I can only imagine how the make up of cars on that block had changed in the time I was parked there. I think this note and this post is simply a way to express anger because of lack of parking.
  • boogieknight
    boogieknight
    Things happening are:

    1- People who expressly take up 2 spaces to protect their cars (Chico Escuela's gripe about Tom Seaver)

    2- Parking too far removed from car in front or back of you. Done either through thoughtlessness or as a precaution from having another driver try to cram their car in a space that's too small for them.

    3- You park well but then the surrounding cars leave and are replaced with other parkers, so now it looks like you parked like an ass.

    I've done or have happened to me all of the above except no. 1. I apologize.

    Did I leave anything out?
  • jimbo79
    jimbo79
    1. Careless parking *does* waste spaces your neighbors could use.

    2. Unless you see someone park in a way that wastes spaces, you can't really know if they are at fault, as gypsy points out, just because there are big spaces in front and behind. After they park, others come and go.

    3. IMHO, the best we can do is always park close (2') to somebody, either in front or in back so as to maximize the space you leave available on the other end.

    4. Another solution is paint the curbs on either side of fire hydrants, so people can park confidently 15' from the hydrant instead of 25'.
  • innocent x
    innocent x
    gypsy wrote: Discussing this is a complete waste of time. There is no way that extra spaces between parked cars is due to people being "hogs" or not knowing how to park. This happens naturally because cars come and go on a block throughout the day and night and there is no way to regulate this. .
    You're a waste of time!

    Anyway...of course over the natural course of parking and leaving a parking spot this happens. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the re-parking on an empty street. If you read carefully, you'll see that's what I said. To me, that's what's idiotic and wrong. The other thing there's no way to control.

    If people are trying to protect their cars by leaving all that space, they're stupid and shouldn't have their nice ride in the city. Or they should put their car in a garage.
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