Politics & Government
Moving Out? Lander wants to Help.
Brad Lander introduces a bill to establish moving-day parking permits.
For all the disgruntled people out there getting suckered into helping your friends move and then getting stuck driving the moving van around the block a hundred times because your friend is too cheap to pay a parking ticket: Brad Lander feels your pain and he wants to help.
The Brooklyn Paper reported on Tuesday that the City Councilmember introduced a bill last week to establish a special system of moving day parking permits, which would allow you to reserve a parking spot in front of your nasty old place and another spot in front of your shiny new one. Then you can just have a nap in the car while your friend carries your piano up five flights of stairs.
As the Brooklyn Paper reports, Lander imagines the permits working similarly to the city-issued street fair permits, with online applications and a requirement to show evidence of the impending change of address. He expects the permits to cost between $50 and $100.
According to the Brooklyn Paper, the bill was inspired by an incident 20 years ago when Lander himself was that sucker, moving heavy furniture from a parking spot a block down the street from its destination.
