Anti-car Brooklyn Beep Reynoso caught driving, parking with outdated placards
Park as I say, not as I park.
Brooklyn’s staunchly anti-car Borough President Antonio Reynoso copped to driving with an expired registration and parking with an expired city-issued parking allow — after Twitter sleuth @placardabuse posted photographs of his darkish gray Nissan Rogue parked in entrance of a sidewalk ramp outdoors Borough Corridor.
“Hello @BKBPReynoso. Is that this your automotive, with the expired @nysdmv registration, utilizing an expired @NYCCouncil placard?” @placardabuse posted on Twitter Friday evening, together with photographs of the parked car and its Metropolis Council-issued placard and plates.
“Sure, that’s my dangerous, genuinely,” Reynoso tweeted in response the following morning.
The newly-elected beep — who beforehand represented the thirty fourth Metropolis Council district — mentioned the automotive “is the bane of my existence.”
“Seldom used, I introduced it out to deal with all these points,” he tweeted. “Eliminated Gov’t plates and returning placard. Coping with DMV on registration. Will now not have plates or placard shifting ahead. No excuses.”
Use of an expired or fraudulent placard is prohibited, as is driving with expired registration.
Placard parking round Borough Corridor, particularly, was a key focus of Reynoso’s run for workplace final yr, together with a promise to ban parking in Borough Corridor Plaza, which his predecessors permitted.
Reynoso adopted by way of on that promise, and has used his bully pulpit as BP to advocate for much less parking and extra transit and bike lanes. In January, he dismissed constituent parking considerations as “not my duty.”
“The fact is you'll be able to’t discover a parking spot as a result of too many individuals in your block personal vehicles,” Reynoso advised attendees on the digital group discussion board. “I feel you have got the suitable to purchase as many vehicles as you need, however with it can come to the duty and the burden of looking for a parking spot. That's not my duty.”
He advised attendees the town is “doing individuals a favor” by offering free on-street parking in neighborhoods, in accordance with video of his feedback that went viral on Twitter.
However the liberal pol’s personal driving document reveals the bounds of the town’s three million free spots — the BP himself has a number of violations for unlawful parking. One picture posted on Twitter reveals his Nissan parked in a no-standing zone — together with his metropolis placard within the sprint.
Public data, in the meantime, present the car has 12 violations, together with seven for unlawful parking and 4 for expired registration or inspection stickers, in accordance with the “How’s My Driving NY” database.
In a press release Monday, Reynoso mentioned “there isn't any excuse” for what he did, and insisted he doesn't “depend on the automotive fairly often.”
“I'm within the technique of updating all placards and registration info,” the assertion mentioned.
“That is an instance of pure hypocrisy by Borough President Reynoso,” mentioned a supply near Metropolis Corridor. “He made a giant precedence to take care of parking abuses. For this reason individuals suppose politicians like him are phonies.”
On Friday cops arrested an MTA employee for fraudulent placard use within the neighborhood of Borough Corridor. The @placardabuse account documented the parking cheat’s unlawful habits for months earlier than cops acted.
The nameless placard watchdogs advised The Publish they're “glad to see that the brand new Brooklyn Borough President has carried by way of on his marketing campaign promise to revive the general public parkland round Borough Corridor to the individuals, as a substitute of continuous to make use of it as an unlawful parking zone for the workplace’s workers.”
“Alternatively, the issue together with his expired car registration and use of an expired Metropolis Council placard was disappointing,” the watchdog mentioned in a direct message to The Publish. “We recognize that he responded promptly and respectfully when requested about it, which many different politicians haven't accomplished once they had been caught. After all, there are divergent views amongst our contributors about whether or not his mea culpa was honest and ample to take duty, or if he's one other hypocrite who's attempting to avoid wasting face.
“We are going to see how laborious he works to scrub up the streets round his workplace, which stay smothered in unsafe placard corruption, and we'll maintain a watch out for any extra violations related to him or his workplace.”
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