Seasonal 'No Parking' Sign Near Prospect Park Removed After Claims Of Ticket Trap
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- A seasonal parking restriction sign near Prospect Park in Brooklyn has been removed, following complaints that it set up a ticket trap for four parking spaces.
Last month, 1010 WINS' Juliet Papa reported on the four spaces at Prospect Park West and 9th Street.
Two signs were mounted overhead, and the bottom sign allows motorists to park there after 1 p.m. But the top sign says, "No standing April 1 to Sept. 30."
The Department of Transportation said Tuesday that the sign referencing seasonal parking has now been removed, clearing the way for parking in the spots year-round.
Greg Smithsimon, a sociology professor at Brooklyn College, had earlier note of all the tickets in those four spots.
"For this whole stretch of this busy, crowded street a quarter of the tickets come from this little spot right here," he said. "In just six months the city makes about $72,000 in tickets, and it's probably the most valuable street real estate in New York right now.
Last week, before the sign was removed, someone tweeted 1010 WINS' Papa showing cars at the site had been outfitted with the Denver boot.
Martha Hyde tweeted that each motorist will have to pay $300 to get the boot removed.
Cars were also towed from the site before that, another tipster reported to Papa.
