New York, NY – NYC Employees with Expired Parking Permits Will be Ticketed

New York, NY – The 144,160 parking placards registered in the city inventory have been reduced by over 25,000, Deputy Mayor Edward Skyler announced.

The cutbacks are targeted at what many frustrated drivers see as an abuse of a system that lets police, teachers and civil servants park for free at meters and many off-limits areas.

The 32% slash beats Bloomberg’s initial pledge to cut them by 20%. NYPD employees saw their placards cut most severely, from 64,587 to 43,113.
Ironically, the Police Department will now be the ones issuing the placards, and the DOT will be the only other agency with that authority.

Skyler insists that vehicles with expired permits or those issued without authority will now be ticketed. “You might as well have Time magazine on your windshield. It’ll be just as effective.” Beware, Park East synagogue employees!