BY JESSICA PARKS
The city’s most exclusive
parking spots are coming to
Marine Park!
The Parks Department announced
its plan to install three
handicap-parking spaces near
Marine Park’s Carmine Carro
Community Center — but only
issue 12 permits for the handicapped
spots — leaving disabled
locals to compete for the
highly coveted spaces.
“The senior center’s offi -
cial membership is in the excess
of 5,000,” said Carl Fischer,
a local senior advocate. “That’s
why the whole situation is
pretty amazing because that is
a really large community. And I
would say one in 10 people have
disabilities.”
As the green space’s only senior
facility, the Carmine Carro
Community Center attracts
thousands of elders with free
classes on fi tness and health,
art workshops, and other events
that enrich the lives of area oldtimers.
But the cherished community
space — which cost a whopping
$16 million and took a decade
to build — lacks any onsite
parking, and seniors are forced
to trudge upwards of 250-feet
through rain, sleet, and snow
from the nearest public parking
space on Fillmore Avenue to
reach the senior center, which
Fischer says can be rough on
some disabled patrons.
“To walk up that hill, especially
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in bad weather, became
very much of a problem,” said
Fischer.
Looking to shorten the
trip, Fischer authored a petition
that attracted around
100 signatures and persuaded
the city to pursue a yearlong
pilot program to test the feasibility
of three handicapped
spots, which Parks workers
will install at the Carro center’s
drop-off area on Feb. 1,
according to Parks Department
spokeswoman Anessa
Hodgson.
Anyone looking to apply for
the new spots must have a preexisiting
handicap-parking
pass issued through the Department
of Transportation, although
it remains unclear what
criteria the Parks Department
will use in judging incoming
applications.
What’s sure is that competition
for the limited-edition
parking permits will be fi erce,
with dozens of seniors angling
to nab the covered spots, Fischer
said.
“There will defi nitely be
seniors who will miss out, but
I think we will manage,” said
Fischer. “Better some than
A victorious Carl Fischer stands where the new parking spots will be developed
Photo by Derrick Watterson.
none.”
in front of the Carmine Carro Community Center.
Another local senior hailed
the new handicap spots as a
welcome if limited amenity for
park goers, saying he hopes it
will free up some parking on
Fillmore Avenue.
“I think its a great idea,” Joe
Devella said. “I think it will be
advantageous for many users of
the park. But three spaces will
help a little bit, not a whole lot.”
Marine Park Councilman
Alan Maisel said he’s skeptical
that three news spots would do
much to improve the circumstances
of disabled locals, but
is nonetheless pleased that the
move will not result in the loss
of any green space.
“I support a pilot program to
see if we could help with some
disabled parking but there is
not much there and I am not
sure if they would completely
fulfi ll the need,” Maisel said.
“But it is the best they can do
because they are not going to
take over parkland.”
The pilot program will go
on for a year, after which the
Parks Department will decide
whether to keep the new parking
spaces.
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