"Someone at the Department of Transportation is clearly fed-up with the precinct's insistence on combat-parking on several blocks worth of neighborhood sidewalks, though. On one block of 35th Street over I-278, cops who previously merely illegally straddled the sidewalk are now also illegally parked in a green-painted bike lane. The city installed the "Fresh Kermit" sometime in recent weeks, according to locals."
"Astorians who stopped to chat expressed their displeasure - anonymously. "Sanitation cannot clean the street," said one older woman. ""The police don't have to pay parking tickets, but meanwhile we pay a lot of tax, and we don't get our streets cleaned. It's crazy." Remarked one cyclist: "I was going to go in to report the illegal parking, but I was worried they were gonna arrest me.""
City officials painted a new green bike lane called the "Fresh Kermit" on one block of 35th Street over I-278 in Astoria. Officers from the 114th Precinct who previously straddled the sidewalk have been observed illegally parking in that bike lane. The illegal parking blocks sanitation access and prevents street cleaning. Residents complain that police do not have to pay parking tickets while taxpayers bear the consequences. A cyclist said they feared arrest if they reported the illegal parking. On-site observation confirmed visible instances of vehicles occupying the painted bike lane.
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