Tough one, but I am probably leaning towards relaxing in that area off season or curtailing the hours BUT if that's done and during a concert at the Pony there's no spaces on your block what will you say? This is my entire point about the compatibility/incompatibility of uses. Residences near or in the middle of uses that draw high visitor traffic have issues. You will not be able to solve them. I do not think anyone has.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Hinge" <hinge98@...> wrote: > > Thanks for posting this. I read it yesterday. > > Since we're talking about parking ( I know I'm annoying with this topic), > what do you or does anybody else feel about keeping year round until midnight > paid parking on the 200 blocks west of Kingsley? > > My answer is easy. Take a drive to my block, 1st Ave between Bergh and > Kingsley, on any day, at any time between now and Memorial Day. You will see > what looks like an abandoned street. Absolutely ZERO demand. > > Does this make sense to anybody? > > I have a friend coming to visit Friday night to play Scrabble. She has 2 > choices - pay $2 or $3 to park out front, or park in the dark around the > corner, or on the 300 block. > > Thoughts? > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dfsavgny" <dfsavgny@> wrote: > > > > From NYT > > > > Reflections on a Parking Meter By CLYDE HABERMAN > > <http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/author/clyde-haberman/> > > Not to make too much of a relatively minor event, but when > > Manhattan's last old-time parking meter was yanked down on Monday, > > it meant the end of a symbolic target for some rebellious spirits. > > [The Day] The Day <http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/category/the-day/> > > Clyde Haberman offers his take on the news. > > > > To them, parking meters represent an infringement of their freedom of > > movement. Did anyone in the Old West make a cowboy pay to tie up his > > horse outside the saloon? Nor is this solely an American notion. In > > Australia, the No Parking Meters Party > > <http://noparkingmetersparty.org/> came into being a few years ago, > > running candidates in state elections in New South Wales with a slogan > > that "the basis of democracy is non-dictated policy." > > > > Writing about the final curtain > > <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/nyregion/uprooting-the-old-familiar-p\ > > arking-meter.html> for the parking meter in Manhattan, 60 years to the > > day after the first one was installed, my colleague Michael M. Grynbaum > > alluded on Monday to the 1967 film "Cool Hand Luke > > <http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=EE05E7DF1738E260BC4A53DFB767\ > > 838C679EDE> ." In its opening scene, the title character, played by > > Paul Newman, is arrested and dispatched to a prison road gang for > > drunkenly lopping off the heads of meters with a pipe cutter. > > > > Back in 1967, some people in the New York theater where I saw it > > cheered as Luke went from meter to meter, methodically decapitating > > each one. To them, it wasn't an act of vandalism. It was a free > > spirit's rebellion against those in power, by attacking one of > > their more soulless creations. > > > > Perhaps those same people would have pumped their fists joyfully had > > they witnessed the uprooting of Manhattan's last single-space meter > > from its post on Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem. Not that > > meters have disappeared from the city. Hardly. Tens of thousands remain > > in other boroughs. But they are doomed, too. In a year or so, the > > city's Transportation Department expects multispace Muni-Meters to > > be the rule everywhere. > > > > The relationship between some New Yorkers and their parking spaces can > > run deep, even as the city becomes ever more bicycle conscious > > perhaps especially as the city becomes more bike conscious. You > > don't have to own a car to understand that. I haven't owned one > > in 33 years. Yet an available parking spot right in front of my > > apartment building is so alluring that it almost makes me want to rush > > off to buy something to fill the space. > > > > Throughout Manhattan and in parts of other boroughs, the hunt for a > > perfect spot, one where a driver may leave the car for days without > > fear of a summons, is no less an obsession than the pursuit of the > > white whale was for Ahab. > > > > Politicians certainly understand this. It helps explain why, over the > > years, they have steadily expanded the exemptions to the alternate-side > > parking rules, usually in the name of paying tribute to some religious > > or ethnic group. > > > > The Transportation Department now recognizes 32 holidays > > <http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/motorist/scrintro.shtml#calendar2011> > > , with a total of 42 days, when the rules are suspended and sanitation > > trucks are thus unable to sweep. It is one of New York's > > peculiarities that the chosen method for honoring various > > constituencies is to leave the streets dirty. > > > > With a run of Jewish, Roman Catholic, Muslim, Hindu and legal holidays > > upon us, there will be a 44-day stretch, from Sept. 29 to Nov. 11, > > during which alternate-side parking regulations will be lifted > > one-third of the time. > > > > For me, the rebel's romantic concept of parking meters as an enemy > > no longer holds, if it ever did. An opposite thought is more dominant: > > Why is public space, a most precious commodity in this city, allowed to > > be used as a private storage area? > > > > Years ago, I asked in a column if it would be all right for a New > > Yorker in a crowded apartment to put a chest of drawers on wheels and > > leave it at curbside > > <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/30/nyregion/nyc-alternate-side-of-realit\ > > y-parking-rules.html> observing all parking rules and taking a > > chance on theft. The very idea was, of course, absurd; you can't > > store personal property on the street. > > > > Why, then, is it O.K. to do that when the wheeled property is called a > > car? > > > > If public space is to be used for this private purpose, perhaps what > > the city needs to do is greatly expand the areas where people must pay > > for the privilege. > > > > Not that this could be done without fierce resistance from some on the > > City Council and in the State Legislature. Generally speaking, when it > > comes to the proper place of the automobile in this crowded city, what > > we have, as Cool Hand Luke found out in his own way, is a failure to > > communicate. > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: asburypark-dig...@yahoogroups.com asburypark-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: asburypark-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
