$115 ticket for double parking? Hell no!
Because of
#NYPDlaundry
on the dash, rules don’t apply. While taking this picture she came out and asked what our contributor was doing.
Told that she’s abusing her badge, she said “what are you going to do about it?” And laughed it off.
If the NYPD needs some tutoring I’d be happy to explain to them that the grey area they’re parked on is called the “sidewalk” and it’s for pedestrians, not parking.
The greenway from 21st St. to Vernon Blvd in Queens used to be one of my favorite bike paths in the city. Here's a photo I took riding it in 2018. Now it looks like this.
@CMJulieWon
,
@NYC_DOT
,
@NYCParks
and
@NYPD114Pct
- how did it get to this?
Congestion pricing isn't just going to reduce gridlock and ensure our children can breathe cleaner air.
It's going to help us invest in century-old public transit system so it's ready to serve New Yorkers for the next century to come.
Living in NYC is finding out that, even though we are the economic engine of the state, officials (even city officials!) will sell us out to benefit the suburbs every chance they get.
We can’t do congestion pricing because then rich people who drive into the city and don’t live there will stop commuting so instead let’s raise taxes on working-class NYC residents?
When people are incentivized to drive themselves everywhere, they drive themselves everywhere. And when everyone wants to get to the same zone at the same time, this happens.
Turn the sound on for maximum discomfort 👇
If you walk around New York for 10 minutes and still claim that e-bikes are more of a menace than cars, you are an unrepentant liar with an axe to grind.
Best thing spotted on our Open Street today: a 9 year old showing her younger friend how to ride a bike. I overheard her confidently proclaiming to her student that within one week she will be able to ride on her own.
#OpenStreets
#34AveOpenStreets
#citiesforpeople
How can cars like this stay on the road? This should be impounded on sight. It’s parked on the sidewalk in LIC but the NYPD refuse to enforce any rules on drivers.
Both sides of the street lined with unused cars. Time for the city to end this failed experiment and either charge for parking or open up the curb for other uses.
We’ve been screaming from the rooftops about defaced plates and unsafe drivers yet this city doesn’t care one bit even as people are being mowed down daily.
This is the tow truck in the crash that killed Merle Ratner earlier this week. The license plate is completely defaced — a common practice in the industry
Asked by
@bern_hogan
for her reaction to the MTA's announced pause on Second Avenue Subway construction, Gov. Hochul said today "the Second Avenue subway would not have started today. Okay, let's be realistic"
@NYC_DOT
this is a video from a bus taken at 5 PM on Saturday, December 2 of the crowds at The Rockefeller Tree. The crowd was pouring into the street to walk - so dangerous. Please consider making 5th Ave an Open Street all weekends in December.
#openstreet
Lots of us (including
@marcelemoran
and
@2AvSagas
) have noticed the new scourge of plateless cars on city streets. How is the Adams administration doing on this problem? Not so great, as
@Jesse_Coburn
and
@GershKuntzman
report:
This is exactly why the state needs to stop preventing NYC from having a citywide network of speed and red light cameras. The NYPD refuse to do their job
“In 2023, the NYPD wrote just 689,960 moving violation summonses, down 35 percent from the 1,062,504 summonses officers wrote in 2014, the first year of Vision Zero.”
We’ve got police harassing bus riders who paid the fare and parking enforcement that walks right by cars parked in a bus lane. I think I figured out why NYC bus service is in a death spiral
It's so cool how the NYPD steals public space and gives it out to Fox News. I don't remember any community input before letting them get away with this.
Lately,
@NYPDChiefPatrol
and
@NYPDDaughtry
have been openly talking about controlling the narrative.
Part of the way that the
@NYPDnews
tries to do that is by rewarding outlets that give them the coverage that they want.
Like the free, illegal parking in Midtown for
@FoxNews
.
Hey we found an extremely dangerous driver actively breaking the law in front of City Hall. I'm sure our giant police force will do something about this immediately.
3/20 @ around 8:40 am right in front of beautiful city hall. Who under
@nycmayor
Adams watch is putting bicyclists' lives at risk by parking this tank here?
@NYCBikeLanes
Sadly this continues to be a horrible problem on the
#bikenyc
/ped path near Queensbridge. Thankfully this was the first time in my last 10 trips no car was actually driving towards me on the path but LOOK at all these illegally parked cars! Six different states represented!!!
there’s pure gridlock in midtown Manhattan right now.
Congestion pricing would have fixed this! but
@GovKathyHochul
cares more about New Jersey diner patrons than millions of New Yorkers who take transit
@GovKathyHochul
: 518-474-8390
@SenSchumer
: 202-224-6542
Love to drive my car literally onto a playground. Definitely better than walking around and letting the community know you’re a person who gives a shit.
@YudelkaTapia
What an absolutely ridiculous statement. “Now is not the time to improve our environment and transportation. We have to keep letting kids die on our streets until the time is right for business.”
@GovKathyHochul
You are an absolute coward who sold out the country’s most important city to appease the suburbs and New Jersey. You don’t get to utter the word courage
Sure, congestion pricing will help the millions of non drivers in the New York metro area but have you considered that a couple of rich people will be annoyed?
Nothing to see, just two rich people living in some of the densest transit-rich neighborhoods in the nation complaining they can't park their BMWs for free.
With the final touch of casual racism thrown in.
There is no reason to allow this. It is, in fact, fully illegal but
@CMJulieWon
and the
@NYPDnews
don’t care. Keep in mind that every single one of these cars has to drive in the greenway to get in and out of these spots. Incredibly dangerous
🫡 to the real heroes of municipal government: the
@NYC_DOT
contractors installing these boulders (and whomever approved this) to combat the most flagrant
@placardabuse
spot in the city.
Body shops using the ADA ramp as storage for their business is both ableist and “privatization of public space” but the people who claim to care about those things never say a word about it.
Hochul is such a bad politician that she’s got Philly (correctly) dunking on us. We cannot let this stand! NYC must rise up until she re-reverses course and implements congestion pricing on June 30th!
Kathy Hochul's not evil like Abbott, Landry or Noem, but NY governor could do so much in a big, progress-minded state - and she's blowing it
Her craven flip-flop on plan to fight climate change and curb traffic confirms she's worst US governor
My column🎁
If you want a modern transportation system that doesn't use signals from before WWII, please call Gov. Hochul and all your elected representatives and press for Congestion Pricing to be implemented on June 30th
New York City’s transit system may sideline key modernization projects after Governor Kathy Hochul delayed a congestion pricing program that would have financed $15 billion of upgrades via
@markets
Who is the NYPD accountable to at this point? They certainly seem to think the answer is ‘no one’. The details in this piece about their actions are disgusting.
I genuinely don’t understand how Gov Murphy can sue to stop congestion pricing but we can’t sue to stop this? Widening the turnpike is the thing that will actually increase pollution, but you hear nothing from the people who claim that’s why they don’t support congestion pricing.
What an awful experience courteousy of
@NYPD9Pct
. Submitted a
@nyc311
ticket for
@placardabuse
(blocking bike lane, no front plate, read plate cover).
I guess since I marked as having city placard, I got a call from an irate officer.
One of my least favorite NYC rituals is when cars inch closer and closer to you in a menacing way when you’re walking in a crosswalk, especially when I’m with my preschooler.
Are you really in that much of a rush? Are you mad that we’re walking at a normal kid pace?
@SamuelAAdams
@Amtrak
How do you expect the richest country on the planet to have frequent service between two of its major cities that are *checks notes* less than 100 miles apart from each other?
Love how the losers come here to claim that the cops are “responding to a call” and then as soon as it’s pointed out that it’s not the case they switch to attacking me personally.
@travis_robert
It’s so sad watching these outdoor dining setups get dismantled all over the city. For nothing! For two cars to sit unused for weeks on end. It’s so demoralizing
Going between Manhattan and Queens in a car:
Triboro Bridge: 6 lanes
Queensboro Bridge: 9 lanes
Midtown tunnel: 4 lanes
On foot or bike:
Triboro : 1/2 lane - no biking
Queensboro : 1 lane shared (walking, biking and currently construction workers)
Midtown tunnel : 0
No matter how far you kick it up the ladder, the NYPD will lie to protect illegal parking. Long past time to put someone else in charge of parking enforcement
IAB Log # 2023-31840
Detective Daughtry-Morales found "mos responded and acted accordingly"
So glad they checked if *I* have any outstanding warrants or am on parole. great work.
Terrible idea. I’ll be voting NO.
Congestion Pricing will not only fund necessary
@MTA
capital projects but also make NYC streets safer, air cleaner, and make our city more livable.
@wontmisshiam
If you or the DOT would like to propose narrowing this sidewalk for more parking spaces got totally can! Until then, parking on the sidewalk is always illegal
Makes sense that during a budgetary crisis the NYC government would attempt to shrink a program that brings in lots of tax revenue in favor of free car storage that brings in nothing.
.
@BilldeBlasio
’s former DOT commissioner, Hank Gutman, says making outdoor dining seasonal will be a hardship for restaurants and urges the city to push back the Nov. 2024 deadline. “Otherwise it won’t be a viable program for the longterm.”
Hmm lets see:
-Only April thru Oct
-no roof (so useless in the rain)
-no heating
Why would any small business invest in these structures at all? NYC has all but terminated this mostly successful program.
Midtown is an absolute nightmare of gridlock, angry honking and illegally parked cars. Congestion pricing will do wonders for the back to the office movement.