The Mamdani administration wants to authorize campus police officers at a Brooklyn university hospital to issue parking tickets — reviving a short-lived proposal from the previous administration to bring in outside agents to supplement the flagging work of the NYPD.
The Department of Finance’s rule change aims to improve access and public safety at the SUNY Downstate Hospital campus in East Flatbush, where illegally parked cars block ambulances and clog up traffic in the area. The hospital’s campus police officers currently can’t issue parking tickets.
Under former Mayor Eric Adams, the Department of Finance proposed a rule change in November 2024 that would have extended parking enforcement authority to SUNY Downstate police officers, security personnel of the 34th Street Partnership and the public safety department of the Spring Creek Towers housing complex in southeastern Brooklyn…