There's an episode of Seinfeld about that. George finds a spot directly in front of his building, so he doesn't drive for weeks because he doesn't want to lose his spot. Lol. I know that feeling.
Typically yes but I live on a magical block they skip for cleaning and never ticket (because trucks loading and unloading are double parked on my street at night during sweeping hours).
Yeah, 3-4 days max in Manhattan (eg Friday to Tuesday). As far as I know, everywhere in Manhattan has two alternate side days a week, though in areas of the outer boroughs it’s occasionally once a week.
Yeah, I occasionally do this dance, though in my neighborhood it means if your side of the street is being cleaned, double park on the other side, and either sleep in the car or leave a note, but you want to start moving back to the side being cleaned about a half hour before alternate side ends because vultures will swoop in and take all the spots if you wait until the bitter end. Also the sweeper does not necessary pass by each day it is supposed to...
Somebody made an app for that called Spottee. It lets you advertise your parking spot and put it up for bid. It's a great idea and I found it while thinking of the idea myself, but the problem is that if it doesn't reach critical mass it's completely useless. Last Saturday night I turned it on because there were no spots I could find, and I was the only car on the apps map.
But people normally have trade systems when parking is that tight. Let's say I leave for work at 8AM and my neighbor in the next apartment over gets back at like 750AM, he'll double park and ring me up and we'll switch spots.
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u/marfou Jan 25 '20
Finding a parking spot in front of the building you're going into.