By COLlive reporter
The NYPD will begin to enforce parking violations in the Crown Heights neighborhood starting on Friday afternoon, the NYPD has announced.
Due to two snowstorms within a week, the streets of the neighborhood remain piled high with snow, making it difficult for residents to find, or get their cars into, legal parking spaces, leading to cars being double and triple parked.
The NYPD has announced today that they will begin enforcing the rules starting this afternoon. A police car announcing this was seen driving on Empire Boulevard on Friday morning, with an officer announcing via loudspeaker that cars illegally parked in the center of the road “will get a ticket… you cannot be in the safety zone.”
Crown Heights resident Shimon Liberow was in the vicinity when the police car drove by on Empire Boulevard and was surprised by the seemingly hostile tone of the announcement.
Liberow says he tapped on the window to ask the officer to clarify the announcement, and she announced on the loudspeaker, “don’t touch the glass, I will call 911 and you will get arrested.”
NYPD 71 Precinct Officer Mike Baratta tells COLlive that due to safety issues and with schools coming back into session next week, they will have to begin enforcing traffic rules.
“The parking violations in the neighborhood are very out of control, in the emergency lane along Empire Boulevard, with the 90-degree angle parking,” Baratta told COLlive.
“With schools coming back into session next week, we are going to have to start taking enforcement action to correct the violations and keep the traffic flowing,” he said.
School is starting next week? Were they out of school for a year.
Really? Friday afternoon in brooklyn? Do they know their population??
That’s no excuse for breaking laws
PSA: The crazy parking on Empire is not just inconsiderate, but many times EXTREMELY dangerous, when our dear brothers and sisters of Hatzolah or the NYPD, have to respond, to an emergency and when seconds count.
They woke up and decided that this has to get done Friday afternoon in a Jewish neighborhood? Doesn’t get much dumber
It’s a chutzpa this Parking was allowed altogether.
Yes, they know it’s Shabbos, and past experience tells them there is potential danger coming. If we; gnite the rules created for our safety, then there should be consequences. Let’s avoid arrogance