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End of the Golden Age: Park Slope Alternate Side Park Resumes July 14

July 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Alternate Side Suspended Restored

Park Slopers can kiss the suspension of Alternate Side Park regulations goodbye on July 14. The Department of Transportation has announced that all the neighborhood’s alternate side parking signs will have been changed from 3 hours to 90 minutes that the Great park Slope Parking Experiment, which has led to great joy among the majority of residents and complaints from others, will be one for the history books. The suspension took effect on May 19. (And will probably be regarded with gauzy nostalgia by all in a few years.) The Slope’s loss, however, is Gowanus’s and Carroll Gardens’ gain as the same process will be repeated there starting on July 7. The new No Alternate Side Parking Zone will run from Fourth Avenue all the way to Court Street and from Wyckoff St. and St. Marks Place to 15th Street and the Gowanus Expressway. Both the Daily News and the Brooklyn Paper have stories with reactions. Will Park Slope residents now take their cars across the Fourth Avenue border into the Greater Gowanus Metroplex? Will Gowanus & Carroll Gardens residents accept it as a summer gift instead of complaining? Will some Park Slopers not figure out the change by July 14? Tune in again for updates.

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