Double parking in NYC is a risk worth taking…(sometimes)
Double parking in NYC is a gambler’s delight. Imagine, every time you double park, you risk a…
- Parking ticket
- Hearing
- Losing a hearing
- $115 parking fine
Double parking during street cleaning days
A wonderful member of the driving public (Joe) explained the logic behind double parking in NYC on the unrestricted side of the street on street cleaning days.
There are two days per week that alternate side parking rules are in effect in my neighborhood. Notwithstanding the major legal holidays, legal holidays, and unexpected suspensions, there are still a big number of days I have to move my car. It would make me crazy driving around looking for a vacant parking space during street cleaning hours. I prefer taking the risk of getting an alternate side parking ticket ($45 in Manhattan)…I got two of them last year.”
Does this logic make sense to you? It makes sense to me. Joe knows when to hold ’em.
Double parking to run into a store for “just a minute”
Please, please, triple please, resist double parking, activating your emergency blinkers, and running into the store to pick up a ____________(fill in the blank). It ain’t worth the risk.
There are about 2300 parking ticket warriors and a bunch of police officers who would love nothing better than to nail a double parker. It may not seem like a lot of warriors considering the miles and miles of roadways in NYC, but they are everywhere, watching us.
Solution: Know when to fold ’em.
Double parking while dropping off or picking up your Aunt Tilly
This is the essence of the double parking conversation. Some cognoscenti (The Evil Empire and DOT) claim that a passenger vehicle can never double park…end of story. While other powerful stakeholders (Adjudication Unit of the Parking Violation Bureau in its guide to parking tickets, page 10 and page 14, and me, Larry B) are resolute in their resolve that double parking is a no standing violation, and therefore, a driver is permitted to stop temporarily and drop off or pick up a passenger (no luggage) and leave immediately.
Do you hold ’em or fold ’em? Depends.
It depends on your propensity for risk taking. Risk takers will play the odds and stop, drop, and skedaddle. Risk adverse drivers will keep looking for a legal parking space.
The consideration here is a balancing act. How long have you been circling your daughter’s apartment building and what are the chances of finding curbside space to drop her off at 7P in Manhattan? What are the odds that one of the 2300 warriors has your chariot in her crosshairs?
If the likelihood of finding a vacant parking space before you run out of gas and patience, hold ’em and double park.
Double parking in Midtown on Monday-Saturday between 7A-7P
You’re kidding, right?
Fold ’em
Double parking outside Midtown
It is legal for a commercial vehicle to double park while making a delivery or service call. Here’s the rule…
Double Parking
(f) General no standing zones (standing and parking prohibited in specified places). No person shall stand or park a vehicle in any of the following places unless otherwise indicated by posted signs, markings or other traffic control devices, or at the direction of a law enforcement officer:
(1) Double parking. On the roadway side of a vehicle stopped, standing, or parked at the curb, except a person may stand a commercial vehicle alongside a vehicle parked at the curb at such locations and during such hours that stopping, standing, or parking is not prohibited, while quickly making pickups, deliveries or service calls, provided that there is no unoccupied parking space or designated loading zone on either side of the street within 100 feet that can be used for such standing, and provided further that such standing is in compliance with the provisions of §1102 of the State Vehicle and Traffic Law. A person may stand a commercial vehicle along the roadway side of a bicycle lane provided all other conditions of this paragraph are met. For the purposes of this paragraph (f)(1), “expeditiously making pickups, deliveries or service calls” shall mean that any period of inactivity at the pick-up, delivery or service call location does not exceed 30 minutes. However, such definition shall in no way limit the discretion of the Department of Finance Adjudication Tribunal to determine whether a violation of this paragraph has occurred
Aggregation of double parking posts
Learning is relentless repetition, and I’ve written 13 articles about double parking. Here’s a link to the category
Commentary
Which brings us back to do. Would you double park in NYC? Is it worth the risk?
Lawrence Berezin
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The anti- double parking camp says a passenger vehicle can never, ever double park. While the other side maintains that double parking is legal under certain circumstances.
I am trying to move out of NYC but I just got booted and they want 670 that I don’t have. Are you able to help me?
Hi, Stefan,
Good morning.
Sorry to hear about your parking pain.
I trust the $670 you’re referring to are tickets in judgment. I’m afraid that once they fall into judgment, there’s nothing I can do to help.
Here’s a Request for a Hearing After Judgment. It’s a tough challenge.
Hearing After Judgment
You may also want to consider a payment plan.
Payment Plan Request
Good luck.
Larry
Hi Larry, I wanted to know if there’s any way to fight 5 judgment tickets at once or try to reduce the amount to be paid on them? Also I was reading on the site and I got a reg sticker-expired:missing and it shows mostly N/S around the ticket even on the expiration on it, on the comment section says no driver no permit, and on the VC box says 70
Hi, Kevin,
Good afternoon.
Once a parking ticket falls into judgment, you are required to submit a Request for Hearing after judgment. It’s a tough challenge to persuade the Evil Empire to release you once that got you. The burden of proof to win is difficult. Here’s a link to the application.
Good luck.
Regards,
Larry
Anyway you can help me beat a ticket for being double parked and no standing anytime?
I have TLC plates if that helps.
Sincerely,
Arbel Medina
Hi, Arbel,
Good morning.
Sorry to hear about your parking pain.
Sure. I’m happy to help.
Please email me your plate number at larry@newyorkparkingticket.com
I’ll check ’em out and report back to you.
Regards,
Larry
I have two bus lane tickets standing. I challenged them by pleading not guilty since all what I re lived by mail is a print out notice of liability . My ground is there is no notarized certificate of authentication it signed by the team hnicoan available to legitimize the violation. I GOT TWO SEPERATE REPLIES FRO ALJ. One guilty and claiming the certificate is on file while the other ALJadjourned the case by giving me 30 days to contact 311/DOT to get . I contacted DOT and was referred to violationinfo.com . I checked the web site given and it refers me to the pictures and video of the notice of liability. Can you help to advise me what to do next. I have to reply by Jan 2, 2019 so they can get it by Jan.5
Hi, Do all the fields have to be completed for the no parking ticket to be valid? The ticket agent left out the tax ID number is it valid?
Hi, Trina,
Good afternoon.
I’m afraid the tax id number is not a required element. If omitted, you don’t win a dismissal of the evil ticket.
Regards,
Larry