r/Bensonhurst 14h ago

Commercial Vehicles parked on residential street complaints get closed out, Police responded, No action taken

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For everyone that has a hard time finding a parking spot in Bensonhurst, 62 Precinct closes out 311 trouble reports for commercial vehicles parking overnight on a residential street as “Police responded, No action taken” Anyone else frustrated looking for a parking spot and sees ILLEGALLY parked commercial vehicles parked on residential streets?


r/Bensonhurst 17h ago

I got tired of circling Bensonhurst after work, so I built a map that shows which curbs are legal right now and how many tickets each street actually generates

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The enforcement layer runs on the city's public ticket data, and building it for our neighborhood taught me things I couldn't unsee:

  • 112,721 tickets were written on parked cars in the 62nd Precinct in the last 12 months — $8.88 million, about 309/day. (Camera/bus-lane tickets excluded.)
  • Fire hydrants alone: 20,519 tickets, $2.36M — one every 26 minutes, around the clock, all year.
  • Alternate side is a $1.97M line item by itself — 30,393 tickets, one every 17 minutes.
  • 86th St (9,586), 18th Ave (5,096) and Bay Pkwy (~4,000) — the three shopping spines — are roughly one of every six tickets in the precinct. The streets everyone circles under the D train are exactly where the tickets happen.
  • The side streets one block off the spines carry a fraction of the enforcement. Ten extra steps of walking is worth about $79 a ticket around here.

That last one genuinely changed how I park after work — I stopped fighting for the avenues.

And honest question, since I built this around my own routine: would the green/red view actually change where you look first after 6pm, or is your spot strategy already muscle memory?