The NYPD is now writing tickets for anyone who uses the Department of Transportation's recently added Neighborhood Loading Zones around the East Village for anything other than quick pick-ups and drop-offs.
From 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, these spaces are reserved for activities such as:
• Package deliveries by commercial vehicles
• Taxi and car service pick-up and drop-off
• Active loading and unloading of personal vehicles
However, given the number of people parking long-term in these spots during the week, the 9th Precinct and the Manhattan Traffic Enforcement Unit recently started enforcing violations to noncommercial plate vehicles in these spaces.
"We'd rather educate and inform people than write summonses," Officer Eugene Adeleye at the 9th Precinct told EVG correspondent Stacie Joy. "We've been getting complaints from residents and we will be actively writing summons to violators."
Previously, the NYPD would issue tickets in these spots, but it was mainly at the discretion of the officer/traffic agents.
As for commercial vehicles that continue to double-park on the street and block a bike lane, Adeleye said: "The trucks loading and unloading are not supposed to interfere with bike lanes, and if they do that is a violation, and they may get tickets themselves."
Adeleye also said that he was sympathetic to residents upset at the loss of parking spots in recent years, from outdoor dining structures to Citi Bike docking stations.
"We are only doing this based on complaints we've received with no intention of giving anyone a hard time — that's why we are trying to educate people as much as we can," he said. "I feel like if people are aware, then they might be able to avoid getting an unnecessary summons."
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"Active loading and unloading of personal vehicles" give me a break! There's no way this is possible unless there are two people, one to stay with the car! Putting a sign on a your car saying that you're loading, unloading is meaningless. You'll be ticketed. Might as well just double park.
Good. 9th precinct need to also issue summons to people parking in "No Standing" areas in front of the school buildings. These areas are designated for school buses do drop off and pick up students and for First Responders to operate in case of an emergency. Instead they are completely blocked by vehicles displaying parking placards which are not valid in those areas. The school buses that have nowhere to pull to the curb end up double parking, blocking the street, and idling. Hundreds of people suffer from the air pollution and noise pollution just so that 4 or 5 individuals will be able to park their cars in front of their work instead of using public transportation, public garage like everybody else. Always remember that only 20% of our area residents own vehicles. Notice how many luxury vehicles are parked for free on the streets without moving: the Maserati SUV form Connecticut on Avenue B, the Porsche on Avenue C and 11th St which hasn't move for months. Last but not list: Neighborhood Loading Zones are not only for deliveries, they are for the oil tanker that comes to your building, the plumber, the electrician and the guy who fixes the roof. It's not about bike lanes, it's about every time you can't cross a street because the crosswalk is completely blocked by a USPS truck or the Beer distributor: all those trucks provide essential services to us and have nowhere to deliver the goods .
Meanwhile commercial trucks are pre down unloading on the new bike lane on C, creating a noise nuisance that never existed before.
Despite what you imagine, there are no “no standing” zones in front of schools. There is restricted parking for teachers. Buses universally load and unload while parked in the street.
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I wonder how this was negotiated with the city. Delivery companies like UPS consider traffic tickets a cost of doing business. I wonder if this is some sort of compromise.
In our 30 plus years in the neighborhood never once have we been "unable to cross a street because the crosswalk is completely blocked by a USPS truck or the Beer distributor
all those trucks provide essential services to us and have nowhere to deliver the goods" so the drama factor could be toned down a bit. Also since we don't drink beer or have things delivered via UPS we strongly believe that our portion of those sidewalks and parking spaces is just being given away for free to beer swilling, Home Shopping junkies and it ain't fair I tell ya. Have a good Tuesday. xo JG
The sign is very clear: “No Standing School Days 7am-4pm”. It’s in red, different than the white sign that says “Department of Education Authorized vehicles only “.
Amen brother! Not so ironically the only vehicle that I’ve encountered in a long time was a 9th pct squad car. Just cruising their phones instead of the hood.
It always makes me laugh ( Darkly ) how quickly they will go after easy revenue but not fine people for quality of life offensives such as constant graffiti not cleaning up after your dog, it would be so nice to see a dog take a dump, the person leaves it and know that the law will STEP IN~ ...blah blah blah~
I stand corrected. So many changes.
Do you really THINK a fuel truck is going to park halfway down the block to deliver fuel to a building considering the hose is not unlimited in length? Or movers are going to carry furniture the length of a block? (The zone on 9th Street 1st and A is on the corner adjacent to the bus stop). It's a good rest stop for Uber drivers. The only thought put into this was to ticket more cars.
The city could make a mint of $$$ daily by having traffic agents stationed on Rutherford Place between 16th-17th Street between 2-3PM. Issue tickets to the dozen or so luxury SUVs illegally parked on the sidewalk, engines running & waiting to pick up the future million/billion-aire kids at Friends Seminary. The budget deficit will be solved within the year.
LOL, bike lanes are the SIDE OF THE ROAD. Sometimes, things need to pull to the side of the road like trucks and cars. I ride my bike all the time but these people that expect to have their own little bubble are obnoxious. Regarding the loading zones, I guess they're good but that makes even less parking that's been taken away by corporate citibike stations as well as private restaurants, which kind of causes MORE double parking, since vehicles need somewhere to go. I don't really think people are getting out of cabs or loading something in and out somewhere further than in front of their destination.
@choresh "Neighborhood Loading Zones are not only for deliveries, they are for the oil tanker that comes to your building, the plumber, the electrician and the guy who fixes the roof."
No, they're not. They too will get a ticket there. And me, who is an artist and has equipment and things I need to bring around, cannot park there either, even if I did want to carry things down the block to unload, I'd get a ticket.
They removed almost all the parking on a major Ave for the neighborhood (Ave C) for a bike lane that a couple of people use a day (which they could've also used as it was, or with a parking lane buffer). The cars and trucks obviously need to sue the side of the road. DOT does this shit to themself. And then they wonder why people complain that at the same time they remove more parking spaces at the end of the block as a "loading zone"yet a car has less places to actually park, and will get a ticket if they are loading into their building down the block and their car is in the loading area. Makes no sense, though it is good if Trucks actually use it. I'm also wondering why they have a random no parking sign on lower ave b on fri and sat nights... another sign that makes no sense that they added.
Law enforcement around here is willy nilly, done on a whim practically. Feelings over facts.
One was blocked today by a USPS truck corner 9th and first, would have taken a picture if able to post.
"They removed almost all the parking on a major Ave for the neighborhood (Ave C)"
Good.
@11:44am: I could not agree more with what you've said. Yes, the DOT does this to themselves AND to *us* completely randomly, it seems. There is no rhyme or reason to any of this. And DOT keeps saying "Oooh, look at the congestion!" as if it's a surprise. Don't they have any capable people at DOT who might have a clue that DOT keeps
doing things bass-ackwards in NYC?
The EVGrumps will find a reason to complain about everything! Removing one parking spot per block is not going to change anyone's life (if it does, your life relies too heavily on free street parking). If this helps with even a fraction of the double-parking (and the honking that comes with it), everyone's quality of life will be improved.
Give it a chance, at the very least...
Please just put a meter on all of the streets and charge for all parking between 9-5. There are way to many weekend warrior cars in this city
Seems strange that DOT wants NYPD to enforce this here....
yet there is zero interest in addressing the popcorn truck and ice cream (not Mr. Softee) and other food trucks that regularly block bus stops - make it impossible to see approaching buses and make it really hard for disabled, people with wheelchairs.
Re: 10:26 and food truck blockage of bus stops....I am very cynical about the City, DOT etc.
My impression is that the City mostly cares when the bicycle lobby is concerned.
Bus riders are not a priority.
Take back more free car storage for this and other uses please. Most of us don’t own cars anyway but we share the space.
"Free car storage" what an annoying, obnoxious activist line.
It's SHARED public parking, it's not "storage". Cars are a necessary tool and everyone who uses or borrows or rents or owns or has family or friends or workers or business visitors shares that space. Get real with this activist shit.
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