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# From The Inbox: Alternate Side Parking, Double Parking, And Other Parking Nightmares
- URL: https://bklyner.com/alternate-side-parking-double-parking-and-other-parking-nightmares-sheepshead-bay/
- Published: 2013-08-22T17:00:26.000Z
- Updated: 2013-08-22T13:50:32.000Z
- Author: wsimpson
- Tags: alternate side of the street parking, alternate-side parking, cars, double park, parking, parking fines, parking tickets, raffi greenstein, traffic, #API-Imported

![Photo courtesy of Raffi Greenstein](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/parking-message-2-585x780.jpg)

Photo courtesy of Raffi Greenstein

Parking is one of the more horrible pastimes that New Yorkers have dealt with in the past century. There are a million rules, fines and, what is worse, so few precious spots to cram your car into. Sheepshead Bites reader Rafi Greenstein sent us this message along with the two photographs:

> Reason number #50058 to hate NYC. I spend up to 20 minutes on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday looking for a parking space on the correct side of the street sometimes I get lucky but sometimes I have no choice but to park on the side where I will have to move at 12 p.m. At 12 p.m. I have no choice like many other drivers to double park I leave a big note with my phone number in case somebody needs to move. Now alternate side ends at 1:30 p.m. If I do not move at exactly that moment or sit in my car for 5 minutes before I get $150 ticket. If I had decided to stay on the wrong side of the street I would have gotten a $65 ticket and 5 minutes leeway both before and after alternate side.

Now, this is something I’m on the fence about. While the standard is obviously screwed up – Rafi should not have been penalized more than if had more blatantly broken rules by refusing to move for street cleaning – I’m also continually irked by those that think it’s okay to double park on street cleaning days. What do you think?

![Photo courtesy of Raffi Greenstein](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/parking-message-585x438.jpg)

Photo courtesy of Raffi Greenstein