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$199 Great West Side Parking at 57th Street between 11th & 12 Avenue!

Indoor parking, open 24/7.

Put in a request for this incredible offer here, and be sure to put in 622 W 57th St as the location you want.

OK, we couldn’t believe this deal. $315 for NYC monthly parking at 12 West 48th Street, which is between 5th & 6th Avenues! With tax, it’s just $375.

Put in a request for this incredible offer here, and be sure to put in 12 W 48th St as the location you want.

Don’t you hate when you run back to your meter and find a ticket issued just 2 minutes after the meter expired?

Last week, the NY City Council approved legislation (which was introduced way back in March 2009) that gives you an extra five minutes ‘grace period’ before Muni-Meter parking regulations and Alternate Side of the Street parking rules are enforced. Mayor Bloomberg says that this will lead to ‘chaos’ and says he will veto this measure, but the Council can over-ride his veto with a two-thirds majority.

The City Council, which passed the law at an overwhelming 47-2 majority, made its decision on the premise that everyone’s watch cannot possibly be set to the exact same time. So if you believe your meter runs out at 2:17pm and your watch is a few minutes slow, then you don’t really deserve a ticket if you get to your car when your watch says 2:17.
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Our friend, Larry Berezin at New York Parking Ticket just told us about a new parking ticket scam.

Until December 2008, you could get a parking ticket if you parked in front of a pedestrian ramp located in the middle of the long street of a ‘T’ intersection, even if the ramp didn’t have an painted crosswalk or lights. The ticket was $165, which is a pretty expensive ticket.

Well, in December 2008 the Department of Transportation (DOT) realized that this ticket didn’t make any sense and changed the law. Now, you can park on the ‘major street’ of a ‘T’ intersection as long as there aren’t any traffic signals, painted crosswalks, or all-way stop signs.

But it seems traffic enforcement is still giving out those $165 tickets and people are paying them!

Check out Larry’s blog for more tips on avoiding and defending parking tickets.

Two of our readers wrote in to ask where they can park a commercial vehicle, like a U-Haul van or truck. Turns out it’s not so easy.

Let’s say you’ve rented a U-Haul to move and need to double park on the street. In most situations, you can double-park to ‘expeditiously’ make pickups and deliveries – as long as stopping, standing, or parking is not prohibited, and as long as there isn’t a free parking space or loading zone within 100 fee that that you could be using. But we all know that loading and unloading a U-Haul isn’t expeditious, so be careful where you double park.

If you’re looking to park your van during the day or overnight, the New York Department of Transportation (DOT) simply doesn’t allow commercial vehicles to park for more than three hours and doesn’t allow overnight parking on a residential street from 9pm – 5am on any street. If you do get a ticket for overnight parking, you have to prove that you were ‘actively engaged in business’ at a location within three blocks of where you got the summons.

So find a garage that doesn’t charge you an arm and a leg to park overnight, and you’ll save yourself a bundle in parking tickets. We’re asking our garage partners to let us know if they’ll take a large van or commercial truck, and then we’ll post the list of garages on our site and on this blog.

Here are some locations where you can park a van, trailer, or truck:

QuikPark — 223 W 46th between 8th & Broadway, open lot on the North side of the street. The average box-car truck rate is $50.00 for 24 hours. Call ahead at 917-837-0193 to reserve your spot.

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Last week Mayor Bloomberg announced new initiatives to make street parking in NYC easier. His proposals include:

Installing Smart Parking Meters
Nicer Parking Enforcement Agents
Online Payments for Parking Fines
Reduced Alternate-Side-of-the-Street Parking Rgulations
Lower Penalties for Overdue Parking Fines

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There is an article in today’s NYT talking about the increase in number of NYC parking tickets, ticket revenue, and overtime paid to NYC parking-ticket-writing staff since 2002. The number of ticket-writers has increased from 1,559 to 2,332 and ticket revenue went from $366.6mm to $587.6mm.

So I took out my handy calculator. Turns out that’s a 50% increase in staff and 58% in parking ticket revenue. I”m sure once you account for CPI or inflation that the numbers even out. The biggest jump to get your head around is the staff increase in 6 years.

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Think you know the difference between No Standing, No Stopping, and No Parking? Every week, someone writes us to ask what all these signs mean, and you want to get it right so you don’t get a ticket.

Here is a quick explanation of some of the bizarre street parking rules of NYC.

No Parking means no parking or waiting for someone, but you can stop to load & unload and to let people out of the car. Think of it as the ‘drop-off’ or ‘keep it moving’ rule, where you essentially have to keep the car moving.

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