Hey Bay Ridge! I don’t know if you noticed, but a rental car agency called Car2Go is using our neighborhood as their parking lot. You probably have seen the small white and blue cars parked on your street. Car2Go has placed 450 cars in Brooklyn during the Winter and is able to use our street parking spaces. Other rental companies, such as ZipCar and Enterprise have to rent space at Century’s for cars when their carss are not in use. This company doesn’t have to pay any special tax or permits to park here, while Bay Ridge residents pay high rents and property taxes. The borough of Queens just received 100 cars this month. It wouldn’t be a big deal if there were 10 or 20 cars of these in the neighborhood as I know some people like the service, but there are about 60-70 in our neighborhood on average. You can download the car2go app and see for yourself.
The cars aren’t being moved on alternate side day in the borough as well and the company has received 4,500 parking tickets, totaling $262,00 in fines.
If you are tired of not finding a parking space on the street, please call in a complaint to 311 this week. The operator there won’t know how to take the complaint, so ask for a supervisor. I spoke with a supervisor named Anthony who put it in as a transportation – agency complaint. Please share if parking is a problem for you in Bay Ridge.
