North Hempstead, NY – Lysa Dyber thought that because of the Jewish holiday she would be exempt from getting a ticket yesterday when she parked near a “No Parking Except Sundays and Holidays” sign while attending a synagogue in Little Neck.
But traffic officers in the Town of North Hempstead apparently answer to a higher power of their own — the Uniform Traffic Code of North Hempstead — and wrote her up anyway.
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Dyber, of Great Neck, found a $70 ticket on her windshield when she returned to her car after services for Yom Kippur, just over the city line in Queens. She said the cars of several others who were attending services also were ticketed — she feels improperly — along Sound View Drive. “It’s Yom Kippur,” said Dyber, who said she wants the town to tear up the tickets. “I’ve never gotten a ticket there, my parents have never gotten a ticket there. I think it was someone who didn’t know it is a holiday, or this was overzealous ticketing.”
Not so, say North Hempstead officials. To qualify as a parking holiday within the town, a holiday must be included in a list of “words and phrases used in this Traffic Code.” “Yom Kippur is not a town holiday,” said North Hempstead spokesman David Chauvin. He said the town issued six traffic tickets along Sound View Drive early yesterday, and all were to cars parked several blocks from the synagogue. He said the town had no plans to waive the tickets.
Maybe my shul should put in some section 8 apartments to get the occupants to come on time for the morning minyon. Once again I learned something from VOS IS NEIAS that is very thought provoking and helpful.
a Brooklyn Yid
anon 3:15
Gut Gezukt!
“my parents have never gotten a ticket there”
well your parents didn’t drive on Yom Kippur! as you said “It’s Yom Kippur”
IT was announced that only alternate side was suspended not meters.
Mir zehnen fort in Golus
I saw that as well – there was one lady just going from car to car and i think she ran out of paper at the end of the day – thats how many tickets she gave
what a CHUTZPAH
to send some ticket agent in to boropark on YOM KIPPUR – even the PD knew not to give tickets – but NO mr BLOOMBERG who our politicans kiss —— send brownies to give tickets
SHAME ON YOU MR. BLOOMBERG
Why should Dov and Simcha ‘do’?
In NYC we are privlaged to have Alt Side waived for YomTov, that isn’t the case in most places, as is evident in this story.
Parking meters on the other hand are not waived and people should’nt just assume they can park there for YomTov.
Oh, you should have seen all the cars on 13th avenue and at all other meters on yom kippur in the afternoon. Unless you were parked at a broken meter or you had some identifying permit in your window, you got a ticket. Some site to lood down 13th avenue and see a whole line of cars with yellow papers by the windshield. Dov and Simcha will have what to do over the next few days.