Brooklyn, NY – NYC Councilman David G. Greenfield is requesting that metered parking end earlier on Friday evenings, shortening metered-parking from 7 p.m. to 5 p.m. on 13th and 18th Avenues in Borough Park.
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Greenfield already ended the metered parking on 16th Avenue in Borough Park at 5 p.m. through a pilot program, which allowed the large Shabbos-observing community of the neighborhood to find parking spaces when making an early Shabbos or during the winter, when they normally could not park on those streets.
“I know firsthand that finding parking in Borough Park before Shabbos is difficult. That’s why I pushed the city to introduce a pilot program on 16th Avenue ending metered parking at 5 p.m. That pilot has proved successful and has literally open up over one hundred new parking spaces in the community. With so many stores closing early anyway, there is no need for meters to keep turning over parking spaces and for people to be driving around aimlessly looking for spots. That’s why we should expand this to 13th and 18th Avenues, as well,” said Councilman Greenfield.
Greenfield has a long list of successful legislature to assist city drivers. He passed a law that gives drivers a 5-minute grace period before being ticketed for Muni-Meter violations, he passed a law that ended the hard-to-remove window stickers for alternate-side parking violations and he also passed the law that will shut down broken Muni-Meters and allow residents to pre-pay the meters.
Greenfield’s work with the DOT has also removed out-of-date “No Parking” signs in Borough Park.
A crown heights resident the worst part of these meters in crown heights even on shabbos day you have metered parking and we have to park course there is no available parking
We need the meters canceled on shabbos to in crown heights
I think that meters should end at 3 pm on Fridays. I also think all meters should be a minimum of two hours. you cant finish a meal in a decent restaurant in less than two hours.
Its about time!
Not a good idea. If more yidden rode bikes to and from shopping, beis medrash, mikvah and schools there would be less traffic congestion and pollution, less noise and most importantly, no need for parking spaces. Making it easier to park will only encourage more car ownership.