How NOT to Win Friends and Influence People!

It's 8:30 am Tuesday morning, August 30, 2011 and the 10 am 6.7' high tide is already rolling onto West 12th Road.  Most of the cars on the lower block have been relocated to the Cross Bay Boulevard median for the duration of the tide.

Unfortunately, RMP 2236 from the 100th Precinct was also busy ticketing the displaced vehicles.

This was just one of at least ten or more vehicles that were ticketed by our "friends" from the 100th Precinct.

One of our neighbors approached the Police Officers and explained that the vehicles were

only parked there temporarily because of the pending high tide.  The response from one of the Officers was simply..."It's not flooded now!" 

Of course, there was one vehicle also parked "illegally" on the median that escaped a summons.

So why did this white Ford Van escape a summons?  Let's take a closer look at the dashboard.

We understand the concept of "professional courtesy" but it does not sit well with residents of Broad Channel who are forced to "relocate" their private vehicles on a continual basis to avoid costly damage to their property.

The issue of resident vehicles being ticketed while temporarily parked on the Cross Bay Boulevard median during high tides is a long standing one, nevertheless, in light of this past weekend's storm surge from Hurricane "Irene", these officers from the 100th Precinct simply served to exacerbate

the misery our town residents are experiencing during the clean-up of this storm!

People are angry over this most incident of ticketing cars on the median during a high tide and we are notifying the Office of the Queens Borough President as well as the Office of Councilman Eric Ulrich (District 32) of this matter requesting that an effort be made to finally resolve this problem.