Street Cleaning Regulations to Change in Dumbo

October 8th, 2008


(Photo by Josh Derr)

Community Board 2, which serves Dumbo, (as well as Bridge Plaza, Brooklyn Heights, Clinton Hill, Fort Greene, Fulton Ferry, the Downtown Business District, Metrotech, Atlantic Center, Renaissance Plaza (the Marriott Hotel) and the Brooklyn Navy Yard), voted last night to change alternate side street parking in the entire CB2 area by a vote of 4-1 in favor. An attendee emailed us the general changes as follows:

  1. Where there is currently “No Parking 8am to 9am”and metered parking thereafter, the revision would have one-half hour window (instead of one hour) between 7am to 9am. This will reduce the time of no parking to one half hour and will begin the no parking at the earlier hour.
  2. On commercial streets (in the core of the business district) sweeping occurs three times a week on each side during the hours of midnight to 3am. The proposal is to break this into two sessions: midnight to 3am and 3am to 6am.
  3. A major change will be on residential streets where the frequency would be reduced from two days of sweeping (per side) to one of sweeping per side. Further, in Brooklyn Heights, the sweeping (per side) would take place on one day per week with No Parking in three different sessions: 8:30am to 10am, 9:30am to 11am and 11:30am to 1pm.

This looks like good news for residents who park on the streets. On the other hand, will the reduced number street cleanings be a problem? For residents who park their cars on the street, how do you feel about these proposed changes?

{Community Boards, NYC.gov}
{CB2 website}

Filed in Dumbo Residents, Dumbo Tidbits at 1:13 pm
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  • herefor decades
    parking lot?
  • Amy
    I agree with Peter. This is actually not a good change for those of us that work and can't sit in our car or move it during the day. If street cleaning is the same day on all streets than you have no option to move your car on another day or the evening before.
  • This actually kind of sucks. The way it works now works well:

    1. You can move the car before work and then come home a bit early and move it back at the end of the day.

    2. You can move it Tuesday at 5pm to a space that becomes legal on Tuesday at 6 and then Wednesday night to a space that becomes legal on Wednesday at 6. That way you avoid any early mornings.

    Then again, the way these 90 minute windows seem to work in Manhattan is that you sit in the car in the illegal space, wait for the street sweeper to come along, slide across to let him by, then slide back and go home. Maybe they don’t ticket after the sweeper passes? And maybe the 3 windows let you choose a time that works better for you? Though I suspect those 8:30 spaces will be VERY popular so people can get to work.

    Peter


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  • booya, it's an offshoot of Clinton Hill. haha. It's listed as Clinton Hills on the CB2 website.
  • booya
    Wonder where Clinton Hills is. Anywhere near Clinton Hill?
  • o'reilly
    terrible. the ay it is it allows for those who live in the neighborhood to actually find a spot. people will sit on them like park slope of the heights. good lord, it is all over man.

    what the hell are you talking about? unemployable people? you must mean all wall street folk. looks like the truth shall shine upon us soon. i for one can't wait.

    maybe you can find a spot down near wall street. looks to empty out soon. so smart those folks.
  • praetorius
    Very good idea. About time. "Street cleaning" does absolutely nothing, certainly doesn't clean- just another revenue source for the city via tickets, and employment for some probably otherwise unemployable people from the government tit. Miracle it went through.
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