These signs went up on 3 blocks around Richmond Hill High School in Richmond Hill Queens without notice yesterday afternoon. Previously, you just couldn’t park in front of the school doors on school days. Yesterday, new parking restrictions were posted saying parking was permitted only with Dept of Ed permits during school days from 7 – 4 taking away a lot of the community’s parking. I already had been parking 1 block away from home due to competition for parking from multiple family homes and apartment buildings. Yesterday, disabled son in tow, I parked 2 blocks away (and I was probably the first to spot the signs). Who knows how far away I will have to park the next time? My neighbors and I take the train to work so we need places to park a car for 24 hour stretches and this takes 40-50 of those spots away. How can they do this without notice to the community? It’s a hardship to the community!
I sent this to Ruben Wills aide since the school is within his bounds as is an apartment building nearby. My side of the street across from the apartment was carved off into Karen Koslowitz’s district Eric Ulrich’s also has some of the impacted nearby community.
Did these signs go up elsewhere in Queens, too?
Helen
17 comments:
It's still the same regulation but just an updated sign. Only vehicles with DOE permits can park there 7 to 4. Anyone can still park there outside of those hours.
These aren't the same regulations if parking was only prohibited in front of the school doors and now it's prohibited on the entire block.
every school i've seen you can't park in front of the school building during school hours. not just the doors.
The teachers are immune to parking regulations. God forbid they take mass transit or have to fight for parking spots like the rest of us.
Have seen them in Manhattan reserved for US Postal Service Vehicles. It is inevitable-- the number of cars is going up up up, and The Almighty stopped creating new land several billions years ago. There is nowhere left to go in NYC.
As far as I know, these signs are at pretty much every public and private school I have ever seen. Not just the doors of the school but the entire block - sometimes both sides of the block.
I personally think it is fine if it encourages good teachers to stay in NYC. I do have a problem with all of the parking taken by the personal cars of NYPD who drive in from the suburbs every day. One of the problems of the NYPD is that so many of the officers don't even live here.
Count yourself lucky that you had the ability to park there until now.
I am told by my neighbors that the spots are largely empty during the day. Meanwhile, the residents need to park blocks away! Richmond Hill high school has a very large block and we are talking about 40-50 parking spots in addition to the old ones on both sides of the school by the doors. Meanwhile, they have a schoolyard full of unused trailers that they could remove to provide parking for teachers NOT at the expense of the poor beleaguered neighbors. Why are we such sheep? This is not a right and it's not inevitable!
The teachers are immune to parking regulations. God forbid they take mass transit or have to fight for parking spots like the rest of us.
Do you get some kind of perverted pleasure making this stuff up? That is completely false; teachers struggle with the same parking regulations as anyone else, unless the building would be so fortunate enough to have a parking lot on the premises, which is at few if any schools.
we're from the government and we're here to help
At least Randi Weingarten is doing something for her half million dollar salary.
Those union dues have to go somewhere...
google maps shows lots of private homes with driveways. why can't people park in their own driveway?
teachers struggle with the same parking regulations as anyone else...So who gets Dept. of Ed permits?
All over Whitestone & the Mitchell Linden Area of Flushing. Came out of nowhere.
The surrounding area consists of multiple family homes and apartment buildings. Across the street from the school are a church and a mosque where parking is not permitted. There are multiple fire hydrants.
The real problem is that this perk was granted taking away an awful lot (40 to 50 spaces) of community parking while the school has a school yard full of abandoned trailers that could be teachers parking with no impact to the community with no notice! Why do you think that is fair?
The J train is down the block and buses to the A, E and F are 2 short blocks away!
City needs money. Here come the brownies, I mean ticket agents
Get rid of all the illegal apts and that'll get rid of some cars.
"Get rid of all the illegal apts and that'll get rid of some cars."
Are you smoking something ? That would be discrimination. They need the money from the basement apartments to pay the mortgage on the old home that was bought for much more money than it was worth. Welcome to the "New" N.Y. !
While these sort of parking regulations seem to the be standard by all schools, to suddenly impose it on this community without warning is absurd.
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