{"id":316385,"date":"2026-08-07T22:36:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316385\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:36:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:36:26","slug":"city-tests-once-a-week-alternate-side-parking-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316385\/","title":{"rendered":"City tests once-a-week alternate side parking in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new pilot program in Brooklyn is testing a change to alternate side parking, reducing the rules to just one day a week.<\/p>\n

The program will take place in parts of Prospect Heights, testing to see whether drivers moving their cars once a week for street cleaning \u2014 versus the standard twice a week \u2014 will maintain the same level of cleanliness.<\/p>\n

The initiative comes days after the city Department of Sanitation once again started slapping neon green stickers on cars<\/a>\u00a0that don’t move for alternate side street parking.<\/p>\n

However, officials say this pilot program is geared towards helping the drivers.<\/p>\n

The department says for years, it’s heard from residents in Prospect Heights who feel twice-a-week alternate side parking is not needed to keep neighborhood streets clean.<\/p>\n

So in an effort for cleaner streets and compliance, the agency is testing out the program, a first-of-its-kind outside of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

As of Aug. 3, drivers within the zone only need to move their cars once a week for street cleaning \u2014 under the premise that more people will do it because it\u2019s only once a week, and the street sweepers will more effectively be able to do their jobs.<\/p>\n

Some New Yorkers with cars NY1 spoke to said they’re excited.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s great, honestly. I think parking has been really hard lately, especially with more cars on the road, and a lot more bike lanes, so it\u2019s been helping people that have a hard time to get out and then move their cars,\u201d said Daniel Sanchez Prada, a driver in the neighborhood.\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019ll see where it goes, I hope they make it permanent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like it would help with compliance, like adherence, if you know there\u2019s one day a week, at least for me, I\u2019ll leave a meeting early to make sure that it happens [moving of car], there\u2019s one day where we have to make sure that it happens, and we do it on that day,\u201d Kelly McComas added.<\/p>\n

However, some community members \u2014 including drivers \u2014 expressed concerns about quality-of-life issues like\u00a0more rats in the neighborhood if the streets are cleaned less frequently.<\/p>\n

City Council Member Crystal Hudson, who represents the neighborhood, introduced the initiative with the goal of making it permanent.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we see an increase in compliance and people are actually moving their cars on the designated days, whether it\u2019s Thursday or Friday, then hopefully this can become a more permanent program and it will expand into a larger catchment area,\u201d Hudson said.<\/p>\n

Hudson’s office said New Yorkers who wrongfully receive a ticket during the pilot program can email her at\u00a0District35@council.nyc.gov<\/a> with their name, plate number and ticket number. Her office also suggested sending a photograph of the ticket.<\/p>\n

The Department of Sanitation says any tickets wrongfully\u00a0issued at the start of the pilot program have all been voided for those drivers.<\/p>\n

The program will run until Sept. 25, at which point the agency will\u00a0determine if cleanliness can be maintained with once-a-week alternate side parking.<\/p>\n

The department says nearly half a million\u00a0car owners disregard street cleaning regulations every week, keeping the agency from cleaning more than 3,000 miles of streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new pilot program in Brooklyn is testing a change to alternate side parking, reducing the rules to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[387,25,1084,98,9,24,12,6019,63,308,122,124,123,27,142,200],"class_list":["post-316385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-app-traffic-transit","tag-brooklyn","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-noorulain-khawaja","tag-nyc","tag-public-safety","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-top-stories","tag-transit","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316385","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=316385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}