Friday, June 1, 2018

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.

13 comments:

JohnnyNutz said...

Good for them!

Anonymous said...

Great idea!! Rich folk On the Upper East Side call the cops when they see a person or vehicle that docent belong in their neighborhood.

Anonymous said...

Looks like a boring Fedders utopia to me.
Good for them taking action though.

Anonymous said...

Once they have that document they can contract with a private tow company to have the cars blocking towed at the owner's expense.

I wish them luck.

Anonymous said...

You don't have to go home but you can't park here!

Anonymous said...

I don't see any issue with this one. Am I missing some point of view here?

Anonymous said...

Speaking of ‘private streets’, how did these private streets (in Queens, still part of the city if I remember correctly) ever come to fruition in Forest Hills Gardens? My guess is decades (and I mean decades) of the Queens political machine at work ($$) , and / or a prominent member of t resided there - and the back room ‘parking for residents only’ scam was born into NYC law.

Rick D said...

"Speaking of private streets"

A 1981 ruling by NY State's Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, upheld the Forest Hills Gardens' deed to the streets and its right to tow cars.

Anonymous said...

It also blocks EMERGENCY VEHICLES from entering.

Anonymous said...

We have a couple of these in my neighborhood and it is out of control with the people parking behind their houses blocking have the road. Good for these people taking steps to stop this. I bet many people tried to be good neighbors and tell people to stop doing this and I bet most of the people came back with "Its not illegal".

Anonymous said...

People are getting more disrespectful. They find private property and park and it’s only when you leave a note that you’ll call the cops and have theypm charged with trespassing and have their car tolled by the cops then they stop doing it. I walked up to a woman after seeing her husband eat an orange and throw the uneaten parts on the ground like some animal. I told the wife and she rolls up her window and drives away. She was in a Lexus SUV.

Anonymous said...

> I walked up to a woman after seeing her husband eat an orange and throw the uneaten parts on the ground like some animal.

Oranges are 100% biodegradable. No big deal to toss them under a bush.

Anonymous said...

animal.

Oranges are 100% biodegradable. No big deal to toss them under a bush.

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You’re missing the point. It’s throwing garbage in front of someone’s house. They can get a $100 ticket for not cleaning certain feet out into the street from their curb and it’s going to attract rats. I saw what I thought to be a cat one night and realized it was a large rat. You also have these people who go threw city garbage cans looking for collectible cans and bottles and leave the bin door wide open or rummage through home garbage cans and the homeowner can get fined for whatever these sanitation inspector choose to write up.