Brooklyn, NY – Believe it or not, fewer car windshields got slapped with parking tickets in Brooklyn last year.
Overall, cops wrote 59,589 less tickets in 2007, an 11% drop from 2006.
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The areas with the most parking tickets are Midwood, Flatbush, Brooklyn Heights. Midwood and Flatbush residents are still seeing orange from the 44,911 tickets issued in the police precinct covering those neighborhoods last year – more than in any other Brooklyn precinct, although it was a 9% decrease from 2006.
The areas with the least parking tickets in 2007.
1. 90th Precinct, Williamsburg. 9,479
2. 81st Precinct, Bedford-Dtuyvesant. 9,971
3. 94th Precinct, Greenpoint. 10,499
4. 77th Precinct, Crown Heights. 12,530
What about people who park at a hydrant – you know it’s just for a minute. This should be the most expensive ticket!
Interesting that Flatbush has more tickets than Boro park!
Someone is getting paid off if 13th Ave did not win this contest!
Hmm. 200 tickets a day in Flatbush and then divide that by 8 hours (avg for violation hour period)and do the math.
WOW! 25 tickets an hour which is abnout every two minutes some idiot getting a ticket.
The city should keep this up and get evn tougher.
My only problem is with the phony tickets. The city needs an independant oversight of the administrative judges which are very corrupt. But for the 80% of tickets which are legit we should all be happy.
They (the PVB) are “Victims of their own Success”. They enforced the parking regulations vigorously and towed cars with a zeal. Now people are more careful [where they park teir cars] and issuing tickets is becoming more difficult.
If they would simply enforce the laws against double parking and blocking crosswalks in Flatbush and Boro Park the 66th and 70th precints could at least triple the number of tickets.
People complain about ticket blitz’s, but who doesn’t see flagrant violations of traffic law than endanger pedestrians and slow traffic. I’m for 100% enforcement with no execptions.
the question is why?
is bloomberg letting up?
are we better drivers?
are we more careful?
are the meter maids not as on the ball or slower then they used to be?
was the quota abolished due to public awareness or pressure?
are these too many questions?
When they say the the 77pct in Crown hieghts it is not the “crown Heights” where the Jews live< that would be the 71st PCT
I looked at this article, and I realized something that was not pointed out. Crown Heights has a smaller amount of tickets than midwood, but it is also about 10% in size of Midwood. I know that the Flatbush/Midwood section has ticketing blitzes like one would not believe, but I think the article is a bit misinforming.