Last Updated on July 8, 2021 by Lawrence Berezin
Everywhere you look you see a NYC parking ticket peeking out from under a wiper
Paul Simon wrote a song about 50 ways to leave your lover. But, the driving public knows all too well, there are more than 50 ways to get a NYC parking ticket. Here are just a few
50 (or 7) ways to get a NYC parking ticket
- Slip out the back Jack (of your friend’s car in a no stopping zone)
- Make a new plan, Stan (while sitting in your friend’s car in a no standing zone)
- You don’t need to be coy, Roy (stop temporarily in a bike lane right in front of a parking ticket warrior)
- Just listen to me (and the cop standing on the corner about whether it’s safe to park here)
- Hop on the bus Gus (after exiting your Uncle Sid’s car in the bus stop zone with two suitcases in hand)
- You don’t need to discuss much (while sitting with your friend in her car parked within 15 feet of a fire hydrant after sunset)
- Drop off the key Lee (by double parking just for 2 minutes to run into you ex-girlfriends apartment
There are so many more ways to get a parking ticket in NYC
Some of the ways to get a parking ticket are not so obvious, while other ways are just, plain dumb
- Stop temporarily to drop off a passenger in a bike lane
- Make the second right hand turn after entering an active bus lane
- Park in front of a pedestrian ramp located at a 4-corner intersection
- Park in a handicap parking space without displaying a handicap parking permit to run into the drug store
- Stop for a NY minute in your brand new pick up truck in a bus stop zone to drop off your passenger and block an incoming bus
- Double park in front of the cleaners with your motor running, a note for the warrior on the windshield, telling him where you went, and emergency blinkers on, to drop off your cleaning
- Park closest to a fire hydrant in a long line of cars at the end of the month
Commentary
Please help me out here. Can you think of any more ways to win a NYC parking ticket? While you’re thinking, in the unlikely event any of the above “ways” aren’t obvious…
- You can’t stop in a no stopping zone, even if you remain seated in your car with the motor running
- You are permitted to stop temporarily in a no standing zone while actively engaged in discharging a passenger, but you can’t stop to chat in a no standing zone (or any of the No zones)
- There are legal and illegal pedestrian ramps. A ramp located at a 4-corner intersection is one of those illegal type pedestrian ramps
- You can stop temporarily in a handicap parking space to drop off or pick up a passenger, but you can’t stop your car and leave it just sitting there unattended
- You can’t block a bus in a bus stop zone, just like the Giant’s offensive line can’t block on a football field
- There are no notes on the windshield in Parking Ticket Land
- C’mon man
- Never, ever ask a cop or warrior where it’s safe to park
But, if you get an unjust parking ticket, or one with a mistake on the front…Fight it!
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