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# Lots Of Action Around "Derelict" Van On Avenue X
- URL: https://bklyner.com/lots-of-action-around-derelict-van-on-avenue-x-sheepshead-bay/
- Published: 2010-12-16T18:59:54.000Z
- Updated: 2010-12-16T18:59:54.000Z
- Author: Ned Berke
- Tags: #API-Imported

![](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/van.jpg "van")

The presumed owner, removing the battery from the derelict van.

It’s been a busy day for that van we told you about on Monday that has [occupied a parking spot for six months despite complaints to the city](/van-sits-for-6-months-despite-complaints/). As we mentioned, the van is packed with what we’d say is a suspicious number of bicycles.

The reader who first told us about it wrote to us this morning with the following message:

> The “Derelict Vehicle” with “License Plate” that I complained to you about received its first ticket about 7:30 this morning. It looks like it’s on the road to departure.

> Thank you, Sheepshead Bites! You get things done.

We assume the ticket was for an expired

registration

inspection sticker, which gives the city authority to tow it.

Since that e-mail, he’s sent us several others. Apparently the van was being watched by a police officer in a scooter for several hours this morning. Another man, all dressed in black and presumably the owner, came by on a bicycle, saw the ticket, put it back where he found it and wrote a note. It was the first time our reader ever saw anyone interact with the van in the six months it has been there.

The man we think is the owner came back a little later, opened the hood of the car, and pulled out the battery before riding off again. We’re guessing the car was dead and he’s on his way to get a new battery and remove it from the street.

It looks like we’ve now got a race on our hands: will the owner replace the battery and remove the vehicle from its spot on Avenue W near East 21st, or will the city tow it?

Either way, the reader is looking forward to a freed up parking spot.

Looks like we’re going to need a name for this service we provide, just like WPIX has “Help Me Howard.” How ’bout “Back Me Up, Bites”?

Yeah, I know. Lame.