Shame stickers for bad NYC parkers are back after years-long ban

They’re sticking it to bad parkers!Fluorescent “shame stickers” are set to make a comeback in the Big Apple for the first time in over a decade — to bully drivers who ignore alternate side parking rules.The City Council rubber-stamped Intro-92, which allows street sweepers to once again apply neon adhesive stickers to the drivers-side window of cars found skirting the law, following a 41-10 vote Tuesday.“This vehicle violates NYC parking regulations,” the obnoxious 8.5 x 11-inch signs say.“As a result, this street could not be properly cleaned.”The bill would repeal a 2011 ban on the practice, which stemmed from complaints that the adhesive used on the stickers was too difficult to take off and sometimes damaged windows.“Street cleaning only works when cars move,” said City Councilwoman Gale Brewer, an Upper West Side politician who sponsored the legislation, ahead of the vote.The city uses alternate side parking regulations for street cleaning, which bars motorists from parking on a particular side of a street — typically once or twice a week for roughly 90 minutes — while it’s being cleaned.Sanitation department figures from 2011 found that street cleanliness, on average, was rated 94 out of 100, compared to a prior average of 73 before the stickers were used for enforcement, according to a City Council committee report on the proposal.Brewer claims constituents have figured out that risking $65-a-pop parking tickets are cheaper than a monthly parking garage pass — leading to nearly 500,000 scofflaws cited and 3,000 miles of streets citywide that can’t be cleaned each week.Conditions have deteriorated so much in recent years that the councilwoman coordinates a monthly cleaning on West 83rd Street with sanitation crews and NYPD, she said.“People need to move their damn car,” Brewer huffed at the meeting.

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