New Utrecht Ave Residents Want Parking Restrictions Eased

New Utrecht Avenue residents living beneath the elevated D line are urging Community Board 11 to get behind a plan to ease parking restrictions along the bustling corridor.

The Brooklyn Eagle reports:

Gabriel Ingrassia said he and other residents want the city to ease up on alternate side of the street parking rules them and allow them to park on New Utrecht Avenue. “We want a reprieve from the very harsh parking restrictions,” Ingrassia, a nurse, told Community Board 11 members at the board’s meeting on Nov. 14.

Ingrassia said he attended the community board meeting to ask for the board’s help in convincing the Department of Transportation (DOT) to remove the restriction.

… Parking is prohibited six days a week from 6:30-7 a.m. on New Utrecht Avenue between 79th and 84th streets. The exception is Sunday, when parking is permitted.

“Six days a week is really tough on us. People here really don’t want it. It has been imposed on us,” Ingrassia said.

… The restriction was put in a few years ago by the DOT at the request of Community Board 11 so that the avenue, which is located beneath the elevated tracks of the D subway line, could be cleaned by the Department of Sanitation more often.

More than 200 people signed a petition that will be sent to the DOT. Community Board 11’s transportation committee will consider the proposal before the Board makes a decision.

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