{"id":1670,"date":"2006-10-17T10:08:10","date_gmt":"2006-10-17T18:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/10\/in_the_city_that_never_sleeps_a_corner_where_streets_are_never_sweeped.html"},"modified":"2006-10-17T10:08:10","modified_gmt":"2006-10-17T18:08:10","slug":"in_the_city_tha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/in_the_city_tha.html","title":{"rendered":"In The City That Never Sleeps, A Corner Where Streets Are Never Sweeped"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are many amazing details buried in this story<\/a>:<\/p>\n

City Island, the last bastion of alternate-side-free parking in the Bronx, has been spared for now.<\/p>\n

But the trade-off is another two years of road construction along its main thoroughfare.<\/p>\n

At a public hearing last week, Community Board 10 voted to table a motion to add parking regulations along City Island Ave., which runs along the entire island.<\/p>\n

The motion will probably not be brought before the board again until after a sewer project and the replacement of the bridge leading to the island are completed, according to those familiar with the issue.<\/p>\n

“It probably won’t be happening for quite some time,” said District Manager Kenneth Kearns. “I would guess it’d be a minimum of two years.”<\/p>\n

The Garden Club of City Island requested that alternate-side parking be enforced for 30 minutes twice a week to give street sweepers a chance to clean the road, which becomes traffic-congested, especially on weekends and during the summer, when hordes of visitors come to the island for its numerous seafood restaurants.<\/p>\n

Until recently, the club paid two workers to sweep the mile-long street on foot, even though city regulations hold property owners responsible for cleaning 18 inches into the street in front of their properties.<\/p>\n

One of those workers graduated college and no longer had time to clean. The other, a senior citizen, could not handle the whole road alone.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is the most amazing detail A) there’s a little corner of the city where alternate-side parking doesn’t exist (a veritable Big Rock Candy Mountain for car owners); B) a two-man crew consisting of an elderly person and a college student has been cleaning the entire road; or C) alternate-side parking actually exists for the purpose of sweeping the streets?<\/p>\n

Obviously the answer is C . . .<\/p>\n

Location Scout: City Island<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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