Dysfunction Junxion

 

For over two months (maybe longer) this massive and hideous bus that was being used as a sanctuary for artists for events and was once parked by a restaurant shanty, was illegally parked on Starr St. until it finally got removed by the NYPD which led to a hilariously fitting end.

But now another bus is now illegally parked on Starr. While less massive but equally hideous, it also has a connection to the art scene as the last one. Meet Ridgewood's newest neighbors "the Junxion"

They think illegal parking and dumping is art and we should like it.

The platform on top of their bluebird bus illegally taking mundane and unused parking spaces is used for performances that can happen anytime according to their "mission" 

  

 

 

Which is why getting nearly 4 grand in parking violations is just a meager cost of doing business. 

 

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 This is what the bluebird bus looks like when it's being immersive.

This collective has 3 other "reimagined" buses in their fleet, so be on the lookout for the bluebyrd and the other trashy art buess when they try to "immerse" on your block. 207

Linky's illegal parking Angels

 

Bloomberg 

It’s a familiar experience for pedestrians and bicyclists — a car or truck parked in a bike lane or on the sidewalk forces a detour into the street — and into traffic. When vehicles block these travel paths, it's not just an annoyance and safety hazard. It’s illegal.

Now a New York City Council member is pushing a bill that would give civilians the power to report bike lane scofflaws, as well as vehicles that block entrances or exits of school buildings, sidewalks and crosswalks. New Yorkers who submit evidence of a parking violation can earn 25% of a proposed $175 ticket. The Department of Transportation would review the evidence to determine whether an infraction has occurred, according to the bill’s text.

Council Member Lincoln Restler said the bill is necessary because the New York City Police Department, which has traditionally been responsible for enforcing these traffic rules, isn’t giving out enough tickets. The number of traffic citations issued in the city increased from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2022, but remains nearly 50% below pre-pandemic levels, according to the Mayor’s Management Report.

“I feel the safety risks every day that are associated with illegal parking,” said Restler, who is a cyclist. “It’s even more problematic for the parent pushing a stroller or a person in a wheelchair who can’t get by on the sidewalk because of illegally parked cars. That’s why we are creating, in this legislation, a new structure to bring real accountability.”

If passed, the law would be the first time such civilian authority was extended to personal vehicles in New York. It’s modeled after the Citizens Air Complaint Program, which allows New Yorkers call in tickets for idling commercial vehicles for the same 25% reward.

Crappy Camper

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Been reporting this camper since November when it appeared on 130th place and north conduit ave in south ozone park. And still it sits in the exact same spot it’s been in for 4 months. it does not move nobody lives inside. This has marked for tow written on the window that says 10/26/21 105th pct however it now sits in the confines of the 106th pct and they don’t even bother to write it for being illegally parked on a residential street for the last 4 months. Or what about the parked in the same spot for more then 7 rule. No enforcement in this area by the 106 but yet they have cops sitting on north and south conduits giving tickets for going 40 in the 30. 

 

Southside Queens Trailer Hideaway

Crappy word on the street...

 If you drive on 134 street before south conduit by the Nassau express overpass or the Nassau expressway service roads you might notice these RVs tractor trailers. Box trucks and other commercial vehicles using this strip as a rest stop.

 

 

Problem is the trucks and RVs do not ever move they just sit here. Who is enforcing the law in this location?

 It’s absolutely ridiculous how they are getting away with this. But does this fall under the NYPD or port authority jurisdiction? Nobody seems to know. Maybe queens crap can help.

JQ: Maybe Rockaway Hideaway is expanding?

Ingenious parking

 

Last Saturday, Utopia Parkway, between 33rd Ave and 35th Ave. "I'll park anywhere I want." 

I would call it "re-imagining"-JQ

Argh! United Towing & Collision illegal parking

 

Illegal Parking  -  Commercial Overnight Parking

United Towing and Collision 23-34 42 STREET, QUEENS (ASTORIA), NY, 11105 QUEENS

This business parks their damaged cars and trucks all over the neighborhood, creating an eyesore and taking up parking for the residents. There are feral cats living under some of the cars in the streets too.

They must be in cahoots with the police because the police do nothing. We have bene complaining for years to no avail. Come and take a look around the area and you will see their crappy cars and trucks everywhere. This is a quiet tree lined, grassy neighborhood and these cars parked all over really bring down the look of the area.

 For Example:

Abandoned MTA plow on 23^rd Road near Sound Street.

Minivan with PA Dealer plates (J78 463J) on 23^rd Road, there almost a year.

Winnebago van with VT plates (see photo below), parked there for almost a year.

Cars parked on Astoria Blvd North and across 42^nd Street (see photo below).

 

Signed, Irritated in Astoria.

Keep on obstructin' again; Runway Towing returns and dumps damaged trailers on Conduit Blvd.

 Runway towing at in again in south ozone park. Back in January channel 2 news did a story on this problem about this towing company storing there damaged trailer on south conduit from 124th street to 126th streets.

  




































 About 5 months went by before this tow company started there nonsense again. DOT even put up no standing anytime signs and two new fire hydrants were put at 125th street and yet they still continue to conduct illegal parking problems here.
 

  




































 They also still have no regard for people’s safety putting these trailers on the corner of this busy intersection. you can not see oncoming traffic on south conduit ave.

 The local police pct which is the 106 will not say anything to them because they help them out with tow operations.

  




































So this is a ongoing fight that will never end until unfortunately a bad accident happens. 

So sad.

 

Keep on Obstructin' 2020, big rigs still being stored on the Conduit in South Ozone Park

South Ozone Park illegally parked trucks; it's happening again...

 

In 2017 and 2018 I wrote into queens crapper about the illegally parked tractor trailers parking in south ozone park on south conduit aves between 125th streets to 127th streets we are now heading into the year 2020 and as you can see the 106 pct is still doing nothing about the illegally parked tractor trailers obstructing drivers views of traffic on south conduit and tractor trailers parking next to residential homes. 

Happy new year. Here is to another year of dealing with this garbage in south ozone park.

South Brooklyn towns are being used for vehicle storage

Brooklyn Paper

 
Southern Brooklyn drivers are circling the block looking for parking because of unscrupulous car dealers, who are stashing the unsold inventory on side streets throughout the neighborhood, according to the local city councilman.

“When you see a car on your block that has been there for six months — it is upsetting,” said Alan Maisel (D—Canarsie). “While we are waiting for the cars to be taken off the streets, they are taking up parking spots.”

The car-dense neighborhoods of Marine Park, Mill Basin, and Flatlands have seen an influx of vehicles with out-of-state plates parking on residential blocks, which are sitting unmoved for months at a time, according to one civic leader.

“Last Tuesday morning... I counted 30 cars with out-of-state plates,” said Ed Jaworski, the president of the Madison-Marine-Homecrest Civic Association. “These cars had plates from Colorado and other far states.”

This reporter joined Councilman Alan Maisel on Fillmore Avenue between E. 49th Street and Utica Avenue on Tuesday, where we counted four cars with out-of-state plates.

The situation is made worse by the inflow of luxury apartment buildings into southern Brooklyn, which replace used-car lots and force dealers to find storage on city streets, said Maisel.

“Everything has an impact on something else,” he said. “Nothing is in a vacuum.”

Jamaica auto body shop using three streets for vehicle storage and are getting away with it

Auto Body has over 30 cars on 150th street, 97th ave, 149 street. Jamaica NY

No registration,  no inspection over 1 month.   

Cops come and give tickets to the local residents. 

Jimmy Van Bramer calls for more surveillance cameras to stop parking in bike lanes

Sunnyside Post
 
Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer joined forces with members of Transportation Alternatives in Long Island City this morning to condemn motorists who block sidewalks, bike lanes and crosswalks—and to call on the NYPD to ticket these drivers.

Van Bramer also announced his support for a pilot program that would bring 20 cameras to the streets of New York tasked with catching drivers who block bicycle lanes and pedestrian pathways. The program, which is likely to be introduced as a bill before the council, is part of Transportation Alternatives’ new #TechforSafety campaign.

 When cars turn our sidewalks into parking lots and block our bike lanes and crosswalks, they put pedestrians and cyclists in danger,” Van Bramer said. “The NYPD must step up its enforcement against illegal parking and ticket and tow cars that are blatantly breaking the law. We need a comprehensive, zero-tolerance policy and legislation to increase penalties.”

Sure we need more enforcement of habitual pig parking offenders, but more cameras on the streets is not the answer and any ideas from TransAlt are always bad.

It's a short post but the comment thread is long and interesting. Notably the one dink who describes drivers as "car people"

Q70 bus illegal idling, hydrant parking caught in the act in Woodside

 I've been making 311 complaints since January regarding illegally idling Q70 buses on 61st St in Woodside (multiple buses just put on their hazards and block the street). Yesterday at 5 pm I found one *parked in front of a hydrant* on 39th Ave (driver apparently napping in the back seat). The neighbors say it happens all the time.

 Around the corner on 61st were two more idling buses, outside the "drop off only" zone that *always* has two parked vehicles, and the actual bus stop on Roosevelt. Needless to say, buses more or less permanently occupying the southbound lane on 61st makes for a massive honking traffic disaster.

Another community fed up with illegally parked trucks

From NBC:

Scores of big rigs have been camped out on a Queens roadway, and residents are crying foul. Erica Byfield reports.

Truck parking legislation sounds nice, but there's no enforcement

From the Queens Chronicle:

The Queens delegation to the City Council wants to ratchet up the economic pressure on commercial truck drivers who illegally park their rigs on the borough’s streets.

Three large trucks, including a pair of 18-wheelers, served as an unwitting backdrop on Springfield Boulevard in Cambria Heights last Friday as Councilman Daneek Miller (D-St. Albans) announced a pair of bills that have been introduced in the Council to try and rein in the big rigs.

The press conference, held one day after the Council passed a bill that significantly increases fines for everything from illegal dumping to throwing trash from a car window, was billed as a quality-of-life statement by Miller, Councilwoman Adrienne Adams (D-Jamaica) and Councilman Costa Constantinides (D-Astoria), chairman of the Committee on the Environment.

Their location on Friday, at the intersection with 121st Avenue, was no accident.

“There are a few trucks here now, but come here after 4 p.m., especially on Friday and the weekend,” he said, “you could have 20 trucks parked along this road. And they keep the motors running because they’re in the cabs and then need air conditioning in the summer and heat in the winter.”

Not to mention the taking of on-street parking, and, Adams said, the danger of having to walk on sidewalks behind large trucks, largely obscured from view, giving cover to potential muggers and attackers.

Intro. 1011, the Commercial Truck Abuse Reduction Act, would cut the time that a tractor-trailer combination, truck or semi trailer can be parked in half, to 90 minutes from the existing limit of three hours.

Intro. 1011 would increase the fine for a first offense from $250 to $400; and subsequent violations in the next six months from $500 to $800.

Glendale RV extravaganza!

From CBS 2:

A busy street in Queens has been a little more crowded lately – not with cars, but with recreational vehicles.

Glendale residents say the RVs have been parked there for a while, creating an eyesore in the community.

A worker for the moving company, Brian and His Van, that owns the vehicles said not to worry, they will be moved out of there in the next few weeks. He said three of the RVs are used for travel and construction, and one is being transformed for the community.

Carrington said it will soon be called the Multimedia Dream Machine, a mobile art and music studio for local students.

So, is this "establishment":

a) a moving company
b) for travel and construction
c) an art and music studio

Familiar excuses from DSNY

From CBS 2:

A Brooklyn block has been turned into a junkyard where public parking spaces are filled with wrecked and damaged cars.

Calls to 311 went unanswered. So CBS2 demanded answers and got action.

A frustrated Sheepshead Bay resident took CBS2’s Political Reporter Marcia Kramer on a tour of his block. He said he and his neighbors have been unable to park in public spaces for years because they’re filled with junked cars, like one with no motor and no doors. He said more than 40 to 50 calls to the city for help have fallen on deaf ears.

“They say they’re going to send somebody out… but no one shows up,” he said.

The block was filled with damaged cars and apparent attempts to beat the system by leaving cars on the streets with no license plates or registrations scraped off.

Kramer demanded answers from the owners of the nearby auto body shops and called both the Department of Sanitation and the NYPD. There were a lot of excuses, she reported.

This happens in EVERY neighborhood where there is an auto body shop. It would seem that Sanitation would make a gold mine off this issue but they'd rather send out bogus tickets to homeowners for gum wrappers that blow onto residential property. What a shame.

You can't park here!

From Brooklyn Daily:

A group of Canarsie homeowners has secured a court order authorizing them to call in tow companies to haul away cars that illegally park on the narrow, private roadway that runs behind their houses, where scofflaws routinely block their rear driveways and can even deny access to emergency vehicles.

The private road runs behind houses on E. 78th and E. 79th streets between Flatlands Avenue and Paerdegat First Street. It’s a tight pathway, owned by the individual homeowners rather than the city, and the homes’ driveways are located there. Parking on the road rather than in the driveways can easily block the way for wider vehicles and sometimes prevent homeowners from being able to turn out of their driveways.

The 78–79 Street Block Association, which represents the homeowners forbids parking on the private street, but outsiders and even some residents often ignore the rule, which is why the association went to court to get permission to tow.

The association asked the Kings County Supreme Court for an injunction against cars parking along the road in March, being represented by the law firm Novick, Edelstein, Lubell, Reisman, Wasserman & Leventhal, P.C. On May 10, a justice ordered that cars, including those belonging to residents, cannot park there and thus blo ck the “right-of-way easement.” Members of the association are now authorized to call a private towing company to remove any delinquent cars parked there, according to court documents.

Because the road is private, it is not the city’s responsibility to arrange for towing, but rather that of the homeowners, but they wanted a court document stating their rights to have illegally parked cars towed at the owners’ expense because some of the towing companies have refused in the past.