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Alternate side parking suspended July 7-Sept 7 (Carroll Gardens)
Josh Guttman | July 1, 2008
As the Brooklyn Paper reported this morning, the suspension of alternate parking that Park Slope has been enjoying much of the summer is coming our way. Starting July 7th, alternate side parking rules will take a hiatus to allow the city to replace nearly 2,000 parking signs. Why do the signs need replaced? It turns out that the current 3-hour window for street cleaning (typically 8a-11a, during which time the cars shift into double-parked mode) is being reduced to a 90-minute window as the city has improved street cleaning scheduling and efficiency.
While The Brooklyn Paper reported that round two will affect most streets within Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, and Gowanus, it actually focuses primarily on Carroll Gardens and Boerum Hill (see map). The east and west borders are from Court Street east to Fourth Avenue and the northern border is Wyckoff Street and St. Marks Place south to the Gowanus Expressway and 15th Street. Cobble Hill, typically considered north of DeGraw and west of Smith, will only partially benefit. Of course, that means that we’ll enjoy the benefit during round 3 later which will begin later in August. Those living on the edges may even get to double dip!
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