Bernadette Thomas has relied on her parking spot right outside of her NYCHA building in Castle Hill for years. It’s a spot she says she paid for and depends on because of her disability.<\/p>\n
She received an unexpected email from NYCHA last week, telling her she can no longer park there, and if she does, her car can get towed.<\/p>\n
Thomas says she reached out to NYCHA and the parking lot management, but neither have come back to her with any solution or explanation.<\/p>\n
She says parking her car in the lot is a risk she is willing to take.<\/p>\n
“I have to rely on street parking, but I’m not parking in the street based on the fact that I can’t get up every day and move my car, so I’m taking a chance actually,” says Thomas<\/p>\n
NYCHA issued a statement to News 12, saying, “One of the eight parking lots at Castle Hill Houses is now reserved for NYCHA employee parking. Since parking spaces at Castle Hill are non-reserved, residents are welcome to park at any of the seven other parking lots on the campus. Residents may also request to have their parking permit fee refunded.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bernadette Thomas has relied on her parking spot right outside of her NYCHA building in Castle Hill for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-31022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}