I’m guessing they were probably already on the payroll for other things, and he just added this to their list of duties?
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I think anyone who is able should request the city build a bike rack directly in front of his fake driveway through the NYC CityRacks Program.
https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/cityrack-suggest.shtml
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It seems like it would be easier and more direct to just pay your employee to park his own car there at all times that you were away, and scram whenever you returned.
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Only for being found out, otherwise this is just what billionaires do. Read about tricks used to prevent access to public beaches in California by billionaires figuring that if they bought a house close to the beach they ought to have exclusive access to the beach as well.
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Of course the problem with a fake hydrant is the chance that the Fire Department would attempt to use it in a real fire…so don’t forget to tag it “not in service”
edited to add: Although the FD would LOVE to break the windows on a Lambo to run a hose through to the hydrant.
More likely is the mayor showing up with a work crew and a gaggle of press to remove the curb cut. Sure, it would be a blatent political stunt, but a fun one to watch.
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But not nearly as douchey or entitled as essentially peeing on the spot to mark it as his own.
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wait, really? When did that happen?
I was living there until last year, and that was more than commonplace where I was living. I think more people used their garages in town as storage space + parking space out front than to put their cars inside of
It’s like car SWATing
The ocean comes with the house, right? It’s in my backyard!
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From HUFFPOST: The Department of Buildings told the Daily News it will send inspectors to re-investigate Gottesman’s controversial parking space.
Re-investigation? While schooling in NYC, informed by my time working a dry cleaning establishment cash register on weekends for ~4 years, I know what building investigators can do – and not do – based on what they find… and based on how much they’re palmed to look the other way. It sounds like the first investigator(s) on their own decided to look the other way, or perhaps some placate-the-rich higher-ups in the DOB helped them decide. An honest investigator would have come down hard on the violation. Period.
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That $500 fine is not going to stop this guy.
What I’m curious about is which cop is on his payroll that is writing the tickets (incorrectly). I wish the reporters had stayed back and kept an eye on their car and interviewed the cop. Did he really think those french doors constituted an “active driveway”? While it wouldn’t be totally impossible, a quick peek in the windows should make it abundantly clear if those signs are full of shit or not.
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According to the article a car can only be legally towed if it has been ticketed by a cop. That said, tow truck operators are among the most shady businesses in the country so I wouldn’t put it past them to tow vehicles illegally. The occasional small claims lawsuit is just the cost of doing business.
However, it seems that the hedge fund guy knows at least one cop who is willing to write out tickets and is on call. Either that or his firm is forging the tickets (and doing it badly, since the judge threw the ticket out for being incorrectly filled out).
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This is proof that our democracy has ended.
Using curb cuts to own the liberals.
We should all ask ourselves: Does society need biollionaires?
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That’s the law in the UK, too.
A further barrier to this scam is that one can’t just install a dropped kerb (which is what it’s called here 
) - formal planning permission is required.
Though that’s just pushing into a different variety of corruption…
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Considering how much I’ve read that it can cost to park in Manhattan, it might still be a bargain.
Christ, what an asshole
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seems like that parking spot could use an ample amount of smelly kitchen trash and nails
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Yeah, this wouldn’t cause embarrassment, they’d ask him who did his concrete work.
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You’d be surprised what you see randomly parked on the street in NYC.
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