"They park on corners, they double-park, they block driveways".
They can't park; there is no parking, so they block driveways".
The replacements are larger, with sandy-brick facades, tall arched entryways and Belgian block driveways in lieu of front lawns.
Everything is a violation, Schwartz says: the tour buses that exceed the 6,000lb vehicle weight limit for the neighbourhood, the smokers who ignore the no-smoking signs, the cars that park in front of fire hydrants or block driveways.
Don't nudge curves, block driveways or access areas.
Another paid a contractor to clear the entrance of a blocked driveway.
The snowplows were building ever-taller walls of snow, blocking driveways that had already been shoveled.
Noise is the still the No. 1 such complaint in New York, well ahead of complaints about landlords and blocked driveways; the city's 311 number receives roughly 1,000 calls about noise each day.
Mr. Farrell said that 97percentt of complaints were related to noise, blocked driveways and animals -- an indication that the most pressing sources of public discontent are not related to safety.
But now, he said, people worry that a home for teenage mothers will lead to double-parking, blocked driveways, loud music and frequent traffic in and out of the building.
But residents complain that hospital employees speed down the narrow one-way streets and that when the hospital parking lot is full, park their cars on the street, blocking driveways.
