Recently I had to deal with an abandoned car, and had another instance of NYC and the NYPD just ignoring the problems in front of them, since it was easier to make believe it didn’t exist. Someone parked an out-of-state car on my block, with its bumper thrown in the back seat, and left it …
NYC has gotten out of hand in recent years, with a visible increase in the homeless on the streets, and parking violations being ignored. Today I want to focus on those parking violations, and how the NYPD is either turning a blind eye or just flat out not patrolling and cracking down on the seemingly “minor …
I’m so tired of the NYC Department of Sanitation (DSNY) coming up with excuses for everything. Now I don’t really blame them for this, I think the garbage truly flows downhill, but let’s look at two pressing issues facing the city right now, snow removal and garbage backup. Let’s look first at that garbage removal, …
One of my favorite parts of driving in San Diego was the traffic patterns and the way their traffic lights flow. If NYC could implement some of these it would make driving just a tad easier in a city full of crazy TLC drivers. Traffic lights that change for traffic – Between sensors in the …
Remember those days when it would snow one to two feet, and the city would shut down for a day or two, yet when it reopened cars could drive around and people could cross streets. Yet this week it snowed a whopping 7.6″ in Central Park, and the city shut down the subways for a …
There is a former Fine Fare Supermarket near my house, that had allocated to it 4 parking spots just for “No Standing, Trucks Unloading 7AM-7PM”. But with the store closing 2+ years ago, these spaces, in a semi-commercial neighborhood, were going to waste. Other stores in the neighborhood were using it for their deliveries, even …
The NYPD has strict district lines. If something happens on a specific block, there is a precinct that is supposed to handle it. While this is well and good, and helps make sure there are enough cops to cover the city, the lines it creates are absolutely ridiculous. Here is a map of a recent …
NYC had an initiative recently to plant trees everywhere…and that they did. Any open concrete space has been planted in. The last time they did a mass-planting they by mistakenly planted the female version of the ginkgo biloba tree, instead of the males, leaving rotten vomit-smelling berries lining the streets and your shoes. Of course some …
All Taxi & Limousine (TLC) cars in NYC have a little orange light on the front and back of the car, to alert the police if the driver is in trouble. The driver can activate it using his leg, so that if he was being held hostage while driving, he can press it without the …
Starting a new series today, called #FixNYC, in which I talk about ideas on how to fix New York City. I am starting with a few simple DOT (Department of Transportation) issues that can help clear up multiple choke points in lower Manhattan. ISSUE #1 On the FDR Drive South, just after Exit 3 (South …
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