Last year, an April northeaster left a crater six feet deep in front of four driveways.
A monthly parker pulls into one of four driveways at the red-brick building on Garden Street, which on the outside looks pretty much like a group of Hoboken row houses.
The house has three driveway parking spaces.
On a recent evening, parents pushed strollers and lawn mowers droned, children played on a tire swing and in one driveway, a longtime resident and his grandson tinkered with the fat tire of a slick red drag racer.
That so much havoc was caused by one driveway should not be surprising in a city where, according to Donald Albrecht, a curator of "Cars, Culture and the City," an exhibition this summer at the Museum of the City of New York, more than 1.5 million cars compete for scarce street parking and a tiny number of private garages.
But most books were coming along for the move, which means we stacked them, tried not to make the boxes too heavy (and failed, in at least one noisy and destructive-to-box-and-toes incident) and drove them down one driveway and up another, where we sorted and reshelved.
I am slightly concerned about the two driveway openings off Oakwood south of the T.J. Maxx building.
"Managing traffic is critical and a big issue because everyone wants two driveways -- for entrance and exit".
A developer wants to carve two driveways into the sidewalk for a 180-car garage, as part of a new residential high-rise.
"So we bought another house nearby in Oyster Bay Cove that was twice as large, with two driveways, four entrances, a foyer that could seat 50 for dinner parties and bedrooms dispersed throughout the house.
