DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN, NY (PIX11)—
The new Barclays center currently under construction in downtown Brooklyn is attracting illegal parking and bogus parking placards, complain long-time residents on Dean St."It's a double standard. Construction workers are getting away with illegal parking. They just put their orange vest on the dashboard and they don't get a ticket," said Peter Krashes, the President of the Dean St. Block Association.
PIX11 News found signs warning the illegal parking would be punished, but no sign of any tickets being distributed. PIX11 news found a parking placard on Atlantic Avenue for a funeral director.
"I think that is hilarious. Too bad the guy didn't take off his union sticker, that he is a construction worker," laughed Krashes.
The N.Y.P.D. spokesperson has said in the past, "Individuals found violating the parking restrictions in the area maybe subject to disciplinary action."
Calls to the Empire State Development Corporation, the state agency that oversees the project, were not returned.
