{"id":925,"date":"2006-04-04T13:14:13","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T21:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/04\/in_brooklyn_courtesy_means_leaving_your_name_and_number.html"},"modified":"2006-04-04T13:14:13","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T21:14:13","slug":"in_brooklyn_cou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/in_brooklyn_cou.html","title":{"rendered":"In Brooklyn, Courtesy Means Leaving Your Name And Number"},"content":{"rendered":"

Only in New York, kids, only in New York (.pdf<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Courtesy is coursing through the streets of Brooklyn like Brangelina gossip through a high school cafeteria.<\/p>\n

The Boerum Hill Association, in conjunction with Assemblywoman Joan Millman (D-Brooklyn Heights), has started distributing plastic placards to double-parking Brooklynites in hopes that they’ll leave their phone numbers on their windshields, in case the cars they are blocking need to be moved.<\/p>\n

“Sorry for blocking your car, neighbor!” the placards read. “If you need to get out, please call and I’ll move my car at once.”<\/p>\n

There’s space below for the driver to write his name and phone number.<\/p>\n

The association started distribution on Wednesday, March 30. The placard is also downloadable from the association website.<\/p>\n

“Courtesy is contagious, and that’s what this is all about,” said Sue Wolfe, president of the Boerum Hill Association.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

The Park Slope Civic Council is considering a similar program although some Slopers think it’s unnecessary.<\/p>\n

They are solving a problem that doesn’t exist,” said George Shea, a resident of 10th Street. “Most people put their number on the dashboard. And those who do, will get their placard while those who don’t, won’t.<\/p>\n

“If the civic groups want to do something useful for me, they can clean up the trash on Seventh Avenue. It’s a mess!<\/p>\n

But another Park Slope resident wished someone had given him a placard when he moved to Brooklyn years ago.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t know you’re supposed to put your phone number in the window,” said David Shenk, a writer who lives on St. James Place.<\/p>\n

“Then, one day, I got a note on my car, saying, ‘If you EVER double-park without leaving your name and number, I’m going to hunt you down.’ As you can imagine, I have a very detailed note now.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Only in New York, kids, only in New York (.pdf): Courtesy is coursing through the streets of Brooklyn like Brangelina gossip through a high school cafeteria. The Boerum Hill Association, in conjunction with Assemblywoman Joan Millman (D-Brooklyn Heights), has started distributing plastic placards to double-parking Brooklynites in hopes that they’ll leave their phone numbers on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}