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Parking change for Slope
City to give new neighborhood loading zones a shot
By Ben Verde
Brooklyn Paper
The Department of Transportation
is seeking to roll
out its “neighborhood loading
zones” program in Park
Slope after pushback from
motorists forced the agency
to yank the zones in Clinton
Hill last summer.
The plan involves axing
a dozen parking spots along
Second and Third Streets between
Fourth and Eighth Avenues,
giving trucks a spot
to pull into while also supplying
residential deliveries
and ride-share vehicles a place
to drop off safely, instead of
double parking or idling in
bike lanes.
The plan was passed
unanimously by Community
Board 6’s transportation
committee on March
6. The chair of the committee,
Eric McClure, says the
neighborhood is suffering under
the weight of increased
truck traffic, and that any-
Local outrage about ICE
By Ben Verde
Brooklyn Paper
Advocates and elected officials
are calling for the federal
government to release an
immigrant who was violently
arrested by Immigration and
Customs Enforcement officers
at her place of work on Flatbush
Avenue on March 1.
In a video captured by her
coworker, ICE agents can
be seen throwing Maria de
los Angeles Pimental to the
ground and handcuffing her
after entering the restaurant
she works in without a warrant
and pepper-spraying her
— a move community leaders
compared to the “Gestapo”
tactics of Nazi Germany.
“This is not about ‘bad
hombres’ this is about Nazism,
this is about white su-
thing that will reduce congestion
is welcome.
“Everyone has seen firsthand
the proliferation of deliveries
in the community,
whether it’s the uptick in people
shopping online or buying
groceries from Fresh Direct,
the number of delivery
trucks in Community Board
6 has grown seemingly exponentially
in the past two
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years,” McClure said.
The program is already in
effect in several neighborhoods
across the city including
Williamsburg, but the last
time the agency tried to bring
the program to nearby Clinton
Hill, they were met with
overwhelming pushback from
residents who claimed DOT
switched the use of the spots
overnight and towed cars that
had been parked legally before
the zones were implemented.
To prevent this, Community
Board 6 included in its approval
a condition that the department
coordinate a robust
outreach program in cooperation
with the board, which
will include distributing flyers
and postcards to the affected
residential blocks.
Despite the planned outreach,
McClure says he still
anticipates plenty of bellyaching
from Park Slope motorists
about the prospect of losing
free parking, even if the
number of spots lost is only
a drop in the bucket.
“I like to refer to it as the
third rail of Brooklyn politics,”
he said of parking.
“We’re talking about a fiveblock
stretch where you’re
probably looking at a total of
350 to 450 parking spaces in
total and they are going to take
fewer than a dozen on either
of those stretches.”
Photo by Kevin Duggan
No metadata in photo
Community leaders blast feds following violent arrest
Yeiny Sanz, the sister of Maria de los Angeles Pimental,
speaks at a rally on Monday.
Photo by Todd Maisel
premacy,” said Public Advocate
Juumane Williams at a
rally outside La Cabaña on
Flatbush Avenue, where Pimental
works and was arrested.
“I don’t want to mince
words on the Gestapo police
who are walking around on
our streets kidnapping our
neighbors.”
Community leaders further
blasted the agency for entering
the restaurant without a
judicial warrant and not explaining
what was happening
to Pimental in Spanish before
she was arrested.
The violent arrest comes in
the midst of growing outrage
over aggressive ICE tactics
in New York, which have recently
included agents shooting
a 26-year-old man in the
face while arresting another
man in Gravesend, and walking
the streets of the Bronx
with a large rifle.
ICE spokesperson Rachel
Yong Yow claims Pimental
had overstayed her work visa,
which ended Sept. 22. Yong
Yow said agents reverted to
using pepper spray after Pimental
resisted arrest.
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