Police Crack Down on Uptown Double Parking

Police Crack Down on Uptown Double Parking

December 28, 2011 2:36pm | By Carla Zanoni, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

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UPPER MANHATTAN — Police declared war on double parking this week — and the results are already showing. 

Police from the 34th Precinct officially began the double — and sometimes triple — parking blitz throughout Washington Heights and Inwood on Mon, Dec. 26, according to the commanding officer of the precinct, Deputy Inspector Barry Buzzetti. 

The crackdown area stretches the length of Broadway, from West 179th to West 220th streets, and will also include cars double parked outside of the precinct stationhouse on Broadway at 181st Street, Buzzetti said. 

Although police have a special permit to park at a right angle to the sidewalk on the street outside of the precinct, the stationhouse hasn't been spared from other drivers double parking near the premises, Buzzetti said. 

Increased enforcement throughout the precinct was already evident on Christmas Eve, as police ticketed and ushered out illegally parked cars near business corridors along 181st, Dyckman and 207th streets, which were jammed with last-minute holiday shoppers. 

“I’ve never seen anything like that,” said Elaine Horovitz, 42, who said she stood in awe Saturday at the lines of cars clogging Broadway outside PJ Wine, where a line of shoppers matched the queue of cars illegally blocking traffic along Broadway.

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