Saturday, January 7, 2012

Website encourages homeowners to rent out parking spaces

From the Daily News:

Live near Kennedy Airport? Great. Is your property near Yankee Stadium? Even better.

You might be able to turn your empty parking space into some cold, hard cash courtesy of ParkatmyHouse, an online parking marketplace that’s rolling into the city.

Based in the U.K., the website is making a big push into the tri-state area, Boston, Washington D.C. and Philadelphia. ParkatmyHouse.com matches homeowners, business owners, churches and schools who have spare parking space with drivers looking for a place to park.


Except if you're going to rent out parking spaces in NYC, you need to be zoned for it, obtain a commercial garage/parking lot permit and pay tax to the City.

Whoops.

We're not talking about a homeowner renting a garage out to a neighbor, but residential properties becoming commercial.

So now we have websites openly advertising illegal conversions, renting apartments out as hotel rooms and now commercial parking spaces in residential districts. The DOB and DOF could rake in big bucks here, yet they continue to do nothing.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds like Flushing was a head of it's time. I have dealt with all of the above plus more right here in North Flushing for years now.

Anonymous said...

Sounds like Flushing was a head of it's time. I have dealt with all of the above plus more right here in North Flushing for years now.
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A problem? - make a public protest to your community board and city councilman. Share it with Crappy.

Or button up and suffer.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous #2
"A problem? - make a public protest to your community board and city councilman. Share it with Crappy.
Or button up and suffer."

That's why I here ! Sharing all the Queens Crap with you :-O
It's like putting my finger in a leaking dike. I've done my fair share dude so don't be so quick to judge. Is North Flushing above criticism ?

Anonymous said...

The government ought to stay out of my driveway. Enough regulation already.

Anonymous said...

anon #3

bitching here is better than nothing. it is necessary but not sufficient.

nothing will change unless you embarrass the pols. image is everything to them and the squeaky wheel gets the grease.