Local community boards are increasingly demanding that the Department of Transportation regain responsibility for enforcing illegal parking on the grounds that the NYPD has failed to prioritize .
On April 8, Manhattan Community Board 6 and Brooklyn Community Board 6 voted separately to return the authority to DOT, which handled parking tickets until 1996. The Brooklyn board started the push in March.
“We see that all the time that the city is trying to work around the fact that there’s a lack of parking enforcement and that there’s some abuses of power with parking enforcement that we hope would be resolved with it moving to another department,” Jason Froimowitz, the chair of the Manhattan board’s transportation committee, told Streetsblog…