By COLlive reporter
Yossi Hackner, member of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council, is calling on residents to attend a public hearing of Brooklyn’s Community District 8 about reduction of alternate side parking.
The hearing on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 is seeking public comments on the proposal to reduce street cleaning days throughout the district which spans from Eastern Parkway to Atlantic Avenue.
Currently, New York City’s Department of Sanitation cleans the street 4 times a week and the reduction will scale the cleaning to twice a week.
It will be held at Hope City Empowerment Center – 650 Washington Avenue near Bergen Street, from 6:30pm to 8:30pm.
Hackner told COLlive.com that he is drumming up supporters to attend the meeting because he hopes it will propel Community Board 9, which oversees south of Eastern Parkway past Lefferts and E New York Avenue, to make the change.
“People who have a life and who work don’t want to move a car every day,” said Hackner, who is in the real estate business.
“I would love for them to only clean 2 days a week. Borough Park and Park Slope have already accomplished it. There is no reason why Crown Heights needs to be the last on the food chain,” he said.
Rabbi Jacob Goldstein, Chairman of Community Board 9, says in response, that the dynamics of Crown Heights requires having the streets cleaned 4 and even 6 days a week.
“We have a big problem in this neighborhood, that we have too many apartment building and a lot of garbage is generated,” he told COLlive.com.
“You cannot compare us to Borough Park which is mostly private 2-story homes. We are more like Manhattan – and what do you think happens there? They’re cleaning all week long and people move their cars.”
But Hackner is not convinced.
“Did you ever follow cleaning truck? They just move the dirt from one block to the next.”
you won’t even be able to park your car if that happens. It will be a parking lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1) Sanitation doesn’t come around to clean the streets for weeks (remember last years snow storms), who tickets them for not cleaning the streets? 2) When they do come to clean the street, most times you couldn’t tell, the garbage is still there, so why can’t we park after the sweeper came & went and redistributed the waste? 3) Sanitation doesn’t have any garbage cans on any street except Kingston Ave., and even on Kingston there aren’t enough because the ones that are there are always overfull. 4) On the Avenues (Brooklyn, Troy, Albany, Schenectady and parts of Kingston), there… Read more »
1)Make each block a permit parking only, near kingston and utica.
2)Make one side of the street on the resident blocks such as montgomery,crown, carroll, president to park at an 45 degree angle, to gain about 5 or 6 spots per block
3)Place meters during business hours, within 40 feet of the shopping avenues such as kingston and utica, to create more turnover
4)Cleaning is only necesary once a week on each side of the road, they will make up the parking ticket income after creating permit parking
What’s your your on these ideas, share your thoughts
Stop punishing innocent people. The buildings don’t clean fine them! I don’t think BP has less buildings then CH.
Finally, after all these years, someone is standing up to the community board 9. The board has Crown Heights Jewish Community millions of dollars plus lack of peace of mind by always having to move cars daily on time or get tickets. Hackner is the only one in 40 years that has done any thing about it. Other places move their cars once a week in Brooklyn and everything is fine
Why cant the city clean Kingston ave? at least bring those Water truck sprayrs they have, I remmeber them using it as a kid. I think our elected officails can pass this on, btw, the rebbe once mentioned, that he got a letter from a women with concern of the cleanliness of the community as it is Shchunas hamelech, and the Rebbe wasn’t happy with it, and said shes right, and the community should take care of it. The police put out a report, and we in CH ware fined thousends of tickets, with a HUGE increase then other police… Read more »
I certainly agree with Hackner on this one. The inconvenience of moving one’s car 4 times a week or more absolutely outweighs the twice a week cleaning vs 4 times weekly.
Sorry Goldstein, I love you dearly but most in the community don’t express your view.
In other contries they dont have such a crazy thing, lets just educate people to put their garbage in the garbage cans. Maybe once a week give a sweep listen to what we have come to. I work in a school and we train the boys to put things in the garabge.
People walk around throwing garbage on the sidewalks. That’s what causes the garbage. If I sweep in front of my house in the morning, there will be more trash later because people don’t know how to use garbage cans. I teach my children to wait to throw their garbage in a can but some people don’t care to wait and use the sidewalks or streets.
Please start with canceling alternate side on shabos
We must that mr. Goldstein for all his hard work! He works really hard to make the mayors office a richer place by giving more opportunities for crown heights to pay the taxes that we don’t pay by having food stamps. He arranges for us to have more chances to get tickets for street cleanings He arranges more tickets for parking in no parking zones thanks to his new empire blvd and kingston av. Which took away more than 20 parking places He arranges for us an easy way to get a new car by having us damage our cars… Read more »
Imagine no alternate parking dates on our streets, Every NEW YORKER WORKING OR SHOPPING in Manhattan will park their car on our blocks and take Subway to work .
Then you have NO PARKING at all
Who got paid, and allowed the zoning to build all the huge condominiums in Crown Heights??? Perhaps they should pay for the garbage cleanup!!!
It’s once a month in our neighborhood, more elsewhere in the city. However, our streets are nowhere near as dirty as New York. We also have garbage pickup once a week…
i remember hearing this in the news a while back. not sure who was working on this – to legislate that one can park after the trucks cleaned it already. (say you can’t park from 11-12:30. currently, even if the trucks came by at 11:10, u still can’t park till 12:30. ridiculous. for what reason?)
Anyone who owns a car and isn’t so rich to own a spot, would never support 4 times a week. In Chicago it’s once a month.
Is it not enough that community board 9 totally messed up Empire Blvd with they’re bike lanes which are so heavily used that you’d be lucky if you find a biker using those lanes even once a day (and doubled the travel time on Empire Blvd.), that they are already preempting to thwart a slight attempt to improve our quality of life by not having to move our cars every second day? Mr. Goldstein, where were you to stand up for us to fight those pesty bike-lanes? Who do you work for at Community Board 9, are you representing us… Read more »
im coming to the kinus hashulichim soon. i use to rent cars when i came, but i stopped renting cars, since the costs of parking tickets in crown hiegts was so high (due to the lack of parking space.)
I take it goldstien has a garage
good for hackner he has the last hit but i know a few people who were working very hard on this for a while behind the scenes
lets not forget that they clean eastern parkway on shabbos thousands of guests that park their car last minute on EP and dont notice until its too late that they will be getting a ticket
Enough is enough!!! Lets send a message, we have more to do with our time than sit around moving/parking our cars waiting for a noisy smelly truck to come by that doesn’t clean the garbage and just redistributes the trash around the street. Sgt. Goldstein, if you’d like we can order one of these trucks to try cleaning your dining room or maybe your kitchen, we’ll see then if you still think that these trucks really clean the streets 🙂 Bravo Mr. Hackner for finally taking the initiative and fighting this absurdity, iv’e gotten enough tickets, too much money down… Read more »
Cleaning the streets 4 times a week is a complete waste of tax dollars. Did anyone ever look at the streets on Monday morning and say “Wow these streets are dirtty because they haven’t been swept since Friday”?
Two days of street sweeping wil work just fine.
I live on eastern parkway. just give us wednesday. you will turn crown heights into a parking lot like park slope & borough park. i own a car and like it the way it is. people will leave their cars parked for days!
I agree with #1, who else does?
Today Thursday I arrived in Crown Heights at 11:30am. I was circling Empire Blvd, Brooklyn ave, Lefferts and Lamont at least 8 times. I had NO WHERE to park the car, not even double park till 12;30pm! Why do we have to move our cars for an hour and a half for a three minute clean up. Hlaf hour is more than enough, this meeting is very important to attend I hope allot of people go.
Let the Gang of Three do something about that. 3 months and we still don’t have blacktop and a smooth ride. It’s terrible. Wait till the snow falls. They’ll have to do it all over again.
Rabbi Jacob Goldstein with all due respect we need more garbage’s more pickup’s of public garbage’s. Walk on Utica and you will see garbage cans over flowing with trash and all around the can there is over flowing garbage cans.
Lets call street cleaning what is. It is a budget line for the city (2007 they got $554,400,818- but that includes red light and cameras).
Do away with cleaning all together (like some parts of Brooklyn, and all of Staten Island) and make the people that litter do some time cleaning.
someone needs to open a parking lot here. he’s make a killing
the streets are dirty and they have to be cleaned often and the car owners; well! this is part of life, maybe first teach people not to litter.
let j goldstine give us a free parking lot to park are cars ,
let j ,goldstine have the beat cops walk the beat 2 protect,
let j goldstine cut crime in our hood
you guys have it good, on eastern parkway it’s 6 times a week!
finally he is doing something since he became vaad hakohol