Brooklyn, NY – Williamsburg residents woke up on Saturday morning in shock and disbelief that the Department of Transportation has changed the signs on Kent Ave. from Broadway-Williamsburg West from “Alternate Side” to “No Standing any Time” without any notice to the area residents.
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“Not only did DOT change these signs without any notification to the area residents in advance, they had the Cutzpah to change on a weekend (Friday Night) when the Jewish residents could not move the cars and the all residents parked the cars legally on Friday, not to move the car for the weekend.” Said Isaac Abraham, Williamsburg Community Leader. “Even more insulting was that early Saturday Morning, traffic enforcement agents already gave summonses to more then 25 cars parked on Kent Ave.” Mr. Abraham continued.
Again DOT stands for Department Of Troubles
A demonstration is called by all Kent Ave. residents in front off Schaefer Landing 440 Kent Ave. Brooklyn, Sunday (today) at 2:30 PM, all local elected officials are invited.
U/D 6:00 PM
After a demonstration this afternoon with many media outlets that have shown up, VIN News has learned that all summons given will be dismissed. stay tuned for future updates.
Just be sure to vote bloomberg in again not 1 good thing yet was done for us the only thing I know when I bought my house 6yrs ago my taxes were $2500 now it is bh $4800 thank you for mayer bloomberg add the ticket you got to ur bloomberg expense list. Don’t forget to vote him again
here he goes again be glad that they didnt tow the vehicles for no standing .. what bums
The real problem is that all residents who live on Kent Ave will literally have no place to park now,they put up “NO Stopping” signs on Kent ave,which includes drop off & pick up.
This is OUTRAGEOUS!!
It should be noted that some of the signs were changed to ‘No Stopping Anytime” from “No Standing”. There’s a big difference between No Standing and No Stopping. I believe with No Stopping one can receive a summons even for stopping to pick up or drop off a pasanger.
Bloomberg has to make sure that the city does not go ‘belly up’. What easier target than the residents.
That’s disgusting! Remember how there was so much publicity recently about changing the parking rules for the yuppies in Park Slope & it took 6 weeks to change all the signs?
Don’t pay these tickets. Instead, go to the press (not the JEWISH Press, the Post etc.)
again i will say out loud: BLOOMBERG GO HOME – HE MUST GO HOME NOW – he has ruined nyc and will continue to do so – HE DOES GOOD FOR HIMSELF AND HIS RICH WALL STREET FRIENDS AND THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE HE WANTS TO HELP AND SAVE BY BEING IN OFFICE 4 MORE YEARS – VOTE NO TO BLOOMBER AND VOTE NO TO ALL WHO SUPPORT HIM – he is a danger for the entire NYC – DONT BE FOOLED BY PEOPLE TELLING YOU HE IS GOOD – PEOPLE TELLING YOU THIS ARE HIS CLOSE ALLIES – again and again we must unite and save our great city from this evil man – BLOOMBERG GO HOME –
you need to cough up more money because this city needs money. I don’t know how Mayor Giuliani was able to come up with ideas to make money without raising taxes and until I figure it out, we will all pay a little more. I will pay and you will pay. If you don’t think NY is worth paying for then maybe you should think about leaving, because I plan on being here for 4 more years and this city seems to be needing more money than ever. You should be proud to contribute 15000.00 to the city each year, between property and income tax. I am thinking of raising sales tax next, so hurry up and shop. If I cant get that raise then maybe I can bring back taxes on clothing. I was going to the people for the quality NY air that we breath but I have not found a way to measure just how much of it is consumed.
If you have any other ideas that you think I can tax to raise money for this wonderful city I plan to control for the next 4 years please send me an email to [email protected]
Soon you’ll be getting tickets just for living in Williamsburgh.
I heard that Traffic Cops were waiting there early Shabbos morning for the signs to be put up, and started to issue tickets immediatly once the DOT trucks finished their work!
My feeling is that they were sent there by Order!
And we all know how many people will never fight these tickets and will end up paying for towing etc.
These games must end!!
Thanks to Danny Squedran…….everything is ok
Yes there is NO STOPPING all over, and as far as i know, stopping just to pickup someone is a summons PLUS POINTS since this is a moving violation.
This is disgusting!!!!!!!!
I’m sure the judge will throwout such tickets!
Now Lets see who is gonna do the job
UJO or UJ Care!!
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im sure he wont, u havent fought parking tickets lately…
Wait, so you ignored the community board notices, and then artificially restricted yourselves from operating any machinery on Saturdays, and you have the nerve to criticize the City? Tough. Pay up and deal with it.
The DOT got this from Community Board 1, who approved this So called “Green Path Way” with most heimishe members voted for.
According to the pathway, no parking/standing is alowed on kent.
Now, they will cry in the yiddishe paper as they do allways double language, but the facts remain.
Activist
I understand this happened on Kent Ave. Could some one please tell me where the signs where changed between? The article mentions Broadway, but does not give another cross street could some one please inform me, thank you.
Sorry friends,
I reread the article and looked at a map I understand the change was made on Kent Ave between Broadway and Williamsburg St. West. Maybe the “Green Path Way” will reroute people on bicycles away from the areas major shopping streets.
the same happend to me i got the ticket off. but what about the towing. time to go get my car. it was a holiday weekend so i had to wait 2 days to get it. all this because the ticket guy was an idiot and did not read the sign right. but i got the ticket off. THANK YOU CITY OF NY
if all the people who post here can get more people to vote for someone OTHER than bloomers we might stand a chance.
is everyone here even a registered voter?
if you want to change you could change the signs, who remembers they changed next to the 13 hoopes shul the no standing sign to no parking at midnight
lets vote the billionare bloomberg the only genius in NY that knows how to run the city out of office with a landslide! I wrote this already in the past, wanna get things done tell rich bloomie that rides the subways, that if this and this cannot be done – all our issues in 24 hours – we will have the entire jewish community protest in front of city hall we should close all schools for a half day bus them into city hall 200,000 people men women and kids even kids in strollers – with one voice shouting out loud that we are tired of living under hell by the rich bloomie mayor and his chronies – you will see action right way – trust me. Enough of the bloomberg terror, there are thousands of smart people that know how to run a city.
To Anon 11:40am; All you have to do is vote on Election Day. No crazy protests needed at City Hall. Want Blooperburg out? Vote him out!!!
oy gevald, I know we can vote him out, but its not guaranteed, secondly voting out is in 1 year from now, until then who knows what else the mayor has in mind, lastly why crazy protest, I guess if you show up oy gevald it would be a crazy protest nothing wrong with a peaceful protest to send a message to the honorable mayor that we are tired of him giving us hell for living in the city, oy gevald you are so meshuga, make sense when you write next time.
DOT normally hets the local community board to okay such changes or ir does them at their request. The complaint should be directed to the community board’s distict manager to have the city invalidate all the summonses issued in the last 48 hours. For all those who want me to fight their tickets you can reach me at my e-mail or at 347 582-1438 and I will be glad to assist you with all your parking tickets.
a simple point blank question, there are about 10-15% more cars in williamsburg than parking spots, that means that some 10% will be forced a ticket every day?!! this is highway rebbery in the first degree! and don’t tell me that they are not allowed to have a car, 98% have cars because they need it for business,
Move to Detroit and you can have all the free parking and parking spaces you want. Cheap houses too.
if you live on kent ave ther wher no parking befor can you tell me wher all the cars from 450 kent ave 100 cars will park
Why don’t people become smarter and MOVE!!!!! I did. Enough is enough!!!
Where have all of you been? They have been telling us about this change for weeks. Don’t be mad and start bashing the DOT, when you are the ignorant ones to not know what is happening is your own town. This sounds more like laziness then anything else. Maybe if people didn’t park so close to their destination, there wouldn’t be so much obesity in the community.
I said this once in the past. Bloomberg craps money. He has absolutely no idea what it means for those who have to work for a living.
Its a very good thing!! i drive down kent every day to work its a mess out there with the traffic by BC lumber hope now it will become better thanks Mayor Mikel vot Blomemberg!!!!!
Is it cheaper to stand in a no standing or on the sidewalk?
can someone please post the into of these people responsible for changing the parking regulartions? Btw is the cop who is usually pulling cars over on kent avenue be allowed to pull cars over on kent avenue with this no stopping signs?
stop whyning just vote him out of office.
all I hear is that chassidim in williamsburg vote for the guy that promises most money for their schools!
if I’m wrong proove me wrong.
harav avigdor miller z’l would always scream to vote for a conservative republican who has the same ideals as us torah yiddin.
want to change polotics around ny then help draft once and for all the person that has the moral and ethical values
Does anybody think that in a city of over 8 million people, the mayor is expected to know about some silly signs?
The Heimishe have it very good here, section 8 f.s.,Medicaid.Other people have to pay for them.They get a small ticket to their ‘lights&sirens’ leased car (shouldn’t be under their name)and the become meshiga.
Guys, get a job like the rest of us!
hey Dinkins, do you think everyone on Kent gets section 8. there are plenty of tax payers on kent avenue,. why don’t you understand the frustration of local residents who dont have any parking in their neighboorhood?
Lets all say together BLOOMBERG WE HATE YOU
can someone please post the email address of blumberg, 311, nyc or squadren etc and evryone should flood protests to them.
just think… you live on hewes st. you get up in the morning, you wana go to ur car, when suddenly you see a big orange envelope on your window, what happened??? THEY CHANGED THE ALTERNATE PARKING SIGNS TO NO STANDING…….
The excect same thing happened to those peolpe who live there…
what a joke!!
is it reall??
something really fishy going on here…………
Bye bye Bloomberg!
Even though he’s going to get those summonses thrown out, we can already see how he gets money for the city’s poor. He takes from the rich (to him, anyone who owns a car or a garbage can, is rich).
Hey Mike, teach some more obese welfare single moms with the big sunglasses how to take out their frustrations on the rich New Yorkers.
Once a no standing sign was put up in front of my office for no reason, we contacted the dot a number of times and we spoke to deaf ears. After contacting our local councilman’s office the dot finely showed up to take the sign down. Now here in the punch line! the dot crew told us there was never spouse to be a sign there according to there floor plan, it’s the city’s sub contractor that screw up (I guess they can collect for each sign they put up and remove with out any questions asked)
I past Kent avenue before and saw a nice amount of people who gathered to protest,media was there as well, listen, I feel the pain that our brothers who live there have as a result of this, and hope that with making some noise they will accomplish something.
I’m a Community Board member in a different area.
To all of you on Kent Avenue I understand how you guys feel, but this has nothing to do with Mayor Mike Bloomberg, this has to do with the local Community Board. Start going to board meetings every month and you will find out everything thats going on in your local area.
How many of you (Yiden) are Board Members? Councilmembers and the Borough President appoint people that Live, Work, or have an Intrest in the community to the Community Board.
I repeat this change has nothing to do with the Mayor.
You guys have a few loose ones upstairs if you think Bloomberg had a hand in this or that this is a reason to get rid of him.
Bring back noach dear. (just a joke.
i just calld 311,
they said they CAN NOT even take a complain, if i want i can write a nice letter to the depertment of transportation, and you know who reado these letters….
i guess its case lost, we have to many GETRIAH ASKUNIM here,
To contact the Mayor:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/mail/html/mayor.html
You can just paste a link to this post.
No such thing as 311
gmail.com
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