In an earlier post, I posited that you could almost tell by the facts of the story which New York neighborhood it happened in.If the story involves Santa Claus getting a parking ticket, for example, it probably happened in Bay Ridge.
As anyone who lives in or visits this neighborhood knows, parking here is very, very tight. Yet cars are such a persistent feature of the Bay Ridge lifestyle that homeowners will sacrifice their front yards just to have a guaranteed parking space.
Bay Ridge drivers fear and loathe traffic agents the way young Black men do the police.
Are they out to get us?
The article from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle:
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=27&id=26106
More from Fox:
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/090127_Bay_Ridge_Tired_of_Parking_Tickets
Council Member Vincent Gentile wants you to know that he takes parking very seriously:
http://vincentgentile.blogspot.com/2009/01/mark-your-calendars-bay-ridge-parking.html
There is a solution, of course, but it will cost you about $250.00 a month -- assuming you can pass the credit check: http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/prk/1013846125.html
Want a free parking spot? Go work for the federal government, from the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/nyregion/24scofflaw.html
Santa Chip Cafiero takes the rap, from the Daily News:
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2009/02/22/2009-02-22_doubleparked_santa_chip_cafiero_cant_bea.html
More on Cafiero's conviction from MSNBC:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29331735/
More Cafiero coverage from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle:
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=27&id=26567
Cafiero story picked up by UPI's Odd News:
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/02/23/Santa_loses_ticket_appeal/UPI-68251235435165/
Outrage over parking tickets grows, from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle:
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=27&id=26810
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