A Veritable Bouillabaisse of NYC Parking Ticket Tips

Last Updated on October 23, 2017 by Lawrence Berezin

Authentic bouillabaisse* has at least 3 kinds of NYC parking ticket tips?

And this recipe for beating or avoiding a parking ticket has at least three kinds of parking ticket tips. So, are you ready to do some serious cooking?:

Racasse

• When a parking meter is broken, call 311 and report it. The DOT field inspectors will make the necessary repairs and the information will be entered in the computerized system. If you are issued an NYC parking ticket, the DOF parking ticket judge will check the computerized system for a repair entry, and you win. Easy, right?
• Did you know that if a muni-meter is broken (it’s supposed to flash), the rules say you must seek out a working muni-meter in the same “parking field” or on the “same block?” Does anyone know what the same “parking field” means? Does that mean like if a muni-meter is broken at Yankee Stadium, you don’t have to drive to Citi Field to find a working muni-meter? By the way, ” the same block” means you must cross the street to find a working muni-meter

Whiting

• The definition of “standing” delivers the secret ingredient unlocking the reason you can stop temporarily, drop-off or pick-up people, and go in a “No standing” parking zone:
  • The term “standing” means, “The stopping of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers.
• Did you know that there are specially designated areas of Manhattan where only trucks can park; while station wagons or vans bearing commercial plates cannot park?
  • For example, for the purposes of parking, standing and stopping rules in the area bounded by 35th Street on the south, 41st Street on the north, Avenue of the Americas on the east, and 8th Avenue on the west, all-inclusive, in the Borough of Manhattan, between the hours of 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., a vehicle shall not be deemed a truck unless it complies with the provisions of §4-13(a)(1) of these rules.
    • 4-13(a)(1) says, ” For the purpose of these rules, a truck is any vehicle or combination of vehicles designed for the transportation of property, which has either of the following characteristics: two axles, six tires; or three or more axles
• You cannot park an oversized vehicle in a parking space limited to “head on” parking unless it totally fits between the lines

Spiny lobsters and crabs

• Midtown is, “from 14th to 60th Streets, 1st to 8th Avenues, all-inclusive in the Borough of Manhattan”
• You must stop, stand or park your vehicle used for the transportation of merchandise parallel and close to the curb, and occupy no more than 10 feet of roadway space from the nearest curb; and cannot be backed in at an angle to the curb between 7A-7P daily, except Sundays in “Midtown”
• Only commercial vehicles as defined in 4-01(b)(i) may stand a vehicle in Midtown during the hours listed above, and may only stand such vehicle in a space regulated by a parking meter (including muni-meter)
  • 4-01(b)(i) defines a commercial vehicle as bearing commercial plates; and
(B) it is permanently altered by having all seats and seat fittings, except the front seats, removed to facilitate the transportation of property, except that for vehicles designed with a passenger cab and a cargo area separated by a partition, the seating capacity within the cab shall not be considered in determining whether the vehicle is properly altered; and
(C) it displays the registrants’ name and address permanently affixed in characters at least three inches high on both sides of the vehicle, with such display being in a color contrasting with that of the vehicle and placed approximately midway vertically on doors or side panels.

Commentary

Delicious! But, if NYC parking tickets give you agita, take a Prevacid and call me in the morning.

* [Larry’s note: Bouillabaisse, complex fish soup originating on the Mediterranean coast of France, one of the glories of Provençal cuisine. Recipes for bouillabaisse abound, but the Marseilles formulation is generally acknowledged as the most authentic; it has, besides fish and shellfish, olive oil, onions, tomatoes, garlic, parsley, saffron, fennel, thyme, bay leaf, and orange peel. True bouillabaisse must be made with Mediterranean fish, including the essential racasse (a bony rockfish), plus whiting, conger eel, mullet, chapon, saint-pierre, and a number of others. Spiny lobsters and crabs are used, as are mussels in the Parisian version of the dish. All the ingredients must be quickly boiled together. Rouille, a paste of garlic, red pepper, breadcrumbs, and fish stock, is added to the table as a condiment to heighten the flavor. Bouillabaisse has inspired literary praise in verse and prose, notably a ballad by William Makepeace Thackeray on his enjoying a bouillabaisse in Paris].

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