Help! Parking Tickets!

Just got a friendly note from the city. They say I was given two parking tickets, one on Jan 16th and one on the 17th for blocking a pedestrian ramp. I'm not aware of having done that but I guess it's possible I was inching over some line. For some reason I never actually saw any tickets and didn't know about them.

They're $175 each! Any advice?

First see if you can get copies of the tickets--if there's anything even as small as a smudge on the addy where you were ticketed, you can get the judge to throw it out. In the absence of that, just show up at court and contest. They'll at least lower the fines.

I read about a service that, for a fee, will fight the tickets for you. I don't remember the website but I'm sure you can find it with a search

Write and explain. If you are willing to pay for one, the judge should throw out the rest.

I came back to my car after vacation once and found $550 worth of tickets. OMFG! $110 a day (expired inspection and expired registration - both happened when I was out of town) and then they hit me 5 days in a row.

Went to court. Admitted that since I don't drive often, I didn't realize date had passed.

Judge agreed it was excessive and I paid $110.

Another time somebody knocked my plate off while parallel parking. I noticed at 6pm. I took the plate and put it on my dashboard. Got a ticket. Wrote a letter saying what happened and got it fixed the next day. Ticket dismissed.

I'd try to get copies first, and then write in an explanation.

Go here and enter your plate numbers - they should have scanned in a copy of the tickets, and they'll be available online... then follow the advice of the above posters.

Make a photo copy of you giving the finger and enclose it with your check. It may provide some solace.

You can fight them online via nyc.gov.

I used to do this and every single time got it reduced or dismissed. Just have a really good excuse for why you got the ticket. I also mentioned ticket quotas along with some of my excuses and that seemed to help.

don't use a ticket fighting service. They will just do the same thing and charge you half the price of the ticket.

every time i've fought it online i've lost and been penalized. every time i've done it in person i've won.