Can Construction Workers Park Where They Want?
This issue is more up the alley of our friends at Streets Blog but we’ll throw it out there anyway. What’s the legal status of construction workers parking their cars on the sidewalk while they perform work on the city’s streets? We’d be pretty surprised if it were okay, but the cop in this picture…
This issue is more up the alley of our friends at Streets Blog but we’ll throw it out there anyway. What’s the legal status of construction workers parking their cars on the sidewalk while they perform work on the city’s streets? We’d be pretty surprised if it were okay, but the cop in this picture of Flushing Avenue certainly doesn’t have a problem with it.
And yes, there are a handful of parking permits associated with permits for a film. But it’s not like it was about 10 years ago when anyone with a car on the crew could get one — the City changed that. Very few permits are given out — only to crew members who drive as part of their job (running to pick up supplies or actors during the shooting day).
The only times film crews get to park their cars on set is when the prop department has asked them to bring their particular car in to use as a prop for a scene. Sometimes actors, directors or producers are transported in rental cars, which then would be permitted to park on set as well — and would like like a crew person’s car because the driver is a crew person (teamster or a PA). So you really don’t know what you’re talking about.
No, they get permits to film their movies, NOT to park their cars, they may abuse it, and there is nothing I can do about it, but it doesn’t make it right, just like there is nothing you can do, when the police officer parks his car by a bus stop to get a sandwich, and the bus has to block the road to pick up passengers, got it?
parking on sidewalks is illegal, even when cops do it, unless they are responding to a call. it’s illegal to block a sidewalk such that a disabled person could not get by.
Make a better point- and as someone else said- the film companies pay a LOT to get their permits. money for the City coffers. So yeah- they paid for the “special” treatment. Did you pay extra for your parking on a PUBLIC street?
First of all, I SAW those workers just park their cars 2 blocks from the action, so I don’t know if they don’t GET to park there, I know they DO.
Next, I didn’t claim any piece of land to me, I just pointed out another aspect where special treatment is made when it comes to parking, that’s all, nobody here is interested in your cries how much taxes you pay, or when you have to get up, I just wanted to make a point, that’s all.
does anyone know the meaning of the word PUBLIC? Mentch???? You don’t own or have a right to claim a piece of a public street just because you work on it. jeesh.
Go back to Kansas or wherever you are from. Give Brooklyn back to Brooklynites!
The man in the photo is not a cop. He’s a Traffic Agent. Both Cops and Traffic Agents will issue tickets to illegally parked cars of construction workers, film crews or anybody else (exept themselves of course) if you call either the precinct or the traffic command. You can also call 311 and they will route the call. For the NYPD, ticket writing is not their major concern, crime is, so you’d be better off asking the 311 operator for the traffic command center.