Atlantic Avenue businesses fed up with bogus parking permits
‘They should get tickets!’
Businesses on Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill are losing customers because so many city workers are using phony permits and other city ID to park for free all day, says the organization that represents more 300 businesses along the avenue.
Parking spaces on block after block of Atlantic, especially near Smith and Hoyt streets, are almost totally taken up by cars belonging to correction officers, Department of Education workers and other city agency employees.
Those who lack official parking permits get a free ride anyway by sticking hats, vests or agency phone books on their dashboard, Josef Szende, executive director of the Atlantic Avenue BID, told the Brooklyn Eagle on Friday. Traffic agents honor whatever agency workers use – and the city loses tons of revenue.