A peeved Park Slope woman has blown the whistle on a peculiar parking conspiracy in the neighborhood. Area driver Maura Collins resides around the corner of 27 Prospect Park West, a posh condo whose doormen move tenants' cars on alternate side parking days. But she says the doormen also create "unparkable" spots as part of a devious scheme to save space for other tenants.
“I don’t want to sound petty — but I can’t take it anymore,” Collins tells the Brooklyn Paper. "It’s just so galling." Collins and another local allege that the doorman "leaves gaps of wasted curb space in front and behind each vehicle he parks — keeping other drivers from getting a spot on their block. When it comes time to park another car, the doorman simply moves the first car forward — creating a parking spot where none existed before." A doorman at the building denies the whole thing, but the Montgomery Place Block Association will take up the issue at their next meeting.
Nobody ever said life in Park Slope was easy! First The Gate bans strollers, then the Co-Op refuses to ban bottled water, and now this. The worst part is that this kind of space saving is technically legal! “It’s not criminal," Detective Cheryl Crispin tells BP. "But it’s certainly not very neighborly." It almost makes you nostalgic for that kinder, gentler time in Park Slope's past, when parking disputes were settled civilly, with elegantly hand-written correspondence.
