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I have no solution for handicapped and doctors, but parking permits for teachers, police and employees should be limited to
the area around their primary place of work and issued only if there is no public transportation within, say, 350 feet.
The current broad permits allow someone else to drive the holder to/from work and then misuse the permit elsewhere all day long.

kokiri

Jill, so you used a prop outside of the job or was that a staging area for the shoot?

There have been arrests for forged parking permits especially when they are police related, I remember hearing about it a few years ago. Photoshop, good digital cameras and marginal skills can work wonders, and since the placards are not bar-coded the TOs are easily fooled. I hope that you are a bit smarter than the inferred actions of your post, possession of a forged instrument is a felony not to mention the theft of the element from the set.

I am a prop master on a TV show here in NYC. I created a fake parking permit to go on the dashboard of an undercover detective car for the show. One day I watched a traffic cop ticketing cars on a Chelsea street. Evidently, my permit was believable enough because my movie car did not get a ticket even with a fake license plate! It's that easy it seems.....

I worked for 15 years at various schools in District 25 in Queens. We were never issued parking permits.

I don't understand why judges need to have special parking permits. They don't work odd hours. I work nearby Brooklyn court houses, and see jaguars and bmws parked all the time.
I understand teachers, firefighters and such don need the permits, but there are lots of people who don't really need the parking priviliges.

Police park at their home block on fire plugs over night and are never ticketed, what is the logic of these this?

I would like to hear a discussion of that promise from a few years back that hydrants that are inoperable would be removed.

Also, for the teachers, there are only very limited areas where a teacher can use their parking permit. The signs that say "NO PARKING DURING SCHOOL HOURS" is the only place those permits are allowed. NOT at hydrants, NOT at meters, etc.

Thanks!

Sounds like sour gapes to me. At least in Manhattan these folks with the permits are parking in spots where the local residents wouldn't be allowed to park there during working hours in the first place. Its misplaced frustration by the public and classic overreaching and overreacting by the mayor.

Why does the city issue parking permits to clery (or churches)? I used to live on a block in the West 80s between Columbus and CPW--a completely residential block other than a small church housed in a brownstone. That church has a reserved spot out front--why? All other residents on the block have to circle round and round, passing by an empty spot reserved for the church. Why can't the clergy person for that church park in a garage nearby like many others have to?

Last week, someone with a placard parked their van across the driveway of our facility, a state operated residence for the mentally ill. This prevented staff from parking, in a neighborhood without pay parking lots, and really tight alternate side parking. The police were called but did not ticket the vehicle because of the placard.

Finally, after hours, the state police ticketed the vehicle, but the vehicle wasn't towed!!!

This was outrageous!

Out of state car registration is all about the cheaper insurance rates. The ones that Spitzer claimed would drop when illegals were issued driver's licenses.

This is a long needed measure. Vehicular traffic must be reduced in the metropolitan area and city government is a perfect place to continue pressure in this area. Reducing cars in the City will make the City more livable for all.