Parking Placards
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Candidate Lincoln Restler: Let’s Abolish Placards Entirely
Want to fight placard abuse? Just get rid of the damn placards.
May 27, 2021
Of All the Places: Placard Perps Park Wherever they Want Near the Tow Pound
Who's towing the towers? Answer: no one.
May 3, 2021
Yang Unveils Placard Abuse Crackdown Plan as Adams Calls the Corruption a ‘New Paltz’ Issue
“Violent crime is skyrocketing in New York. Maybe parking is the big crime problem in New Paltz, but not in New York," said the campaign of the Brooklyn Borough President, one of the city's most notorious placard abusers.
April 15, 2021
Brooklyn Candidate One-Ups Boss, Proposes Plan to End Illegal and Placard Parking
City Council candidate Elizabeth Adams wants to finish the job that her boss, Council Member Steven Levin, did not come close to finishing.
March 19, 2021
A Round and a Roundy: Solving Crime on the Subway — And Solving Placard Abuse, Too!
Leave it to a cartoonist — who plays with crayons all day — to come up with the answer to two key problems in New York City right now: subway crime and placard abuse.
February 24, 2021
FOIL’ED AGAIN! DOT Does Not Want the Public to See its Placard Abuse Enforcement Guide
“We believe DOT is illegally withholding information from the public that would allow New Yorkers to help root out the corruption on our streets,” Placard Abuse said in a statement.
February 15, 2021
IDLE COMPLAINT: DOT Opposes Bill To Let Citizens Report Placard Abuse — Fearing Violence
DOT Commissioner Margaret Forgione said she's afraid of violence — even though Council Member Steve Levin's bill is based on an existing city anti-idling program.
January 12, 2021
A Round and a Roundy: Parking? Lots — If You’re a Cop
Just as everything looks like a nail to a hammer, everything looks like parking to a cop.
January 12, 2021
They Didn’t Get the Memo (Actually, They Did — They’re Just Ignoring It)
One day after top NYPD brass reminded rank-and-file cops that it is illegal and dangerous to park in bike lanes, bus lanes on curbs and in other places that normal people know are illegal and dangerous places to park, cops are still, well, you know.
January 8, 2021
NYPD to NYPD: Stop Breaking Parking Laws!
Reminder to NYPD officers: All that illegal and unsafe parking you're doing is illegal and unsafe.
January 6, 2021
