He got a five-minute grace period for alternate side-of the street parking violations and made it illegal to drop advertising circulars on a homeowner's lawn without permission.
Joseph Bolanos, the president of the West Side block association, attached the signs to the poles for alternate-side parking signs on the block between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue.
The car must be moved for alternate-side parking.
But I recognize that I'm getting subsidized, too: if it weren't for alternate-side free parking, the rent at my garage would be a lot higher.
In fact, a full 10percentt of the tickets for alternate-side parking violations were issued within two minutes of the time that the rule went into effect.
I got the car serviced and inspected and, with one exception, remembered to park on the right side of the street for alternate-side parking.
The Police Department said it could not provide a preliminary count of how many summonses it had issued for alternate-side rules violations on Monday.
"If you see someone who hasn't moved their car for alternate-side-of-the-street parking, you generally know who it is and you ring their doorbell".
City Council members say that granting a five-minute grace period for alternate-side-of-the-street parking and certain meter violations would simply give wiggle room to drivers who may have lost track of time.
And at a Council meeting last year, as Ms. Quinn described a bill aimed at eliminating unsightly window stickers for alternate-side parking violations, spectators in the balcony lathered themselves into an ovation.
