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

1. Slip out the back Jack (of your friend’s car in a no stopping zone)
2. Make a new plan, Stan (while sitting in your friend’s car in a no standing zone)
3. You don’t need to be coy, Roy (stop temporarily in a bike lane right in front of a parking ticket warrior)
4. Just listen to me (and the cop  standing on the corner about whether it’s safe to park here)
5. Hop on the bus Gus (after exiting your Uncle Sid’s car in the bus stop zone with two suitcases in hand)
6. 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)
7. 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!