“This week, the city quietly announced a change in parking rules that, for thousands of people in Park Slope, will be nothing less than life-altering, a summer not to be forgotten, like the Summer of Love, the Summer of Sam. The alternate-side parking rules of half a century will be indefinitely suspended while workers replace 9,200 parking signs. Not suspended for a snowstorm. Not for a holiday. Indefinitely. As in, you park, you lock the door, and you walk away for as long as you want, a way of life in most of this country, but altogether breathtaking and revolutionary in New York City. Welcome to the Summer of the Spot…The news was met with dropped jaws, as if it had been announced that Park Slope was seceding from the United States, and this was the first act of a fledgling nation.”–NYT