What an interesting–and revealing–comment. I’m really curious to know who said that.

PS. I’m a bit baffled by The Post’s campaign against pedicabs too.

You can’t park a car on the street in NYC and expect that this kind of nudging is not going to happen. It’s like taking the subway during rush hour and expecting not to have physical contact with any of the other passengers. The motorists who think otherwise have unrealistic expectations about the extent to which property rights can be protected in a crowded urban environment that fails to adequately limit private auto traffic.

It’s probably a neighbor coming back home early for Thanksgiving.

Thanks for opening up a parking thread. On the same tangent, one morning last week I spied out of my window a guy whose car, although legally parked, had been squeezed between two other cars so tightly he couldn’t pull it out. After five minutes on scene, his girlfriend left to take the subway (a short block away). He stuck around all morning waiting for…something. I left while he was commiserating with a cop in a scooter. His car was still there that evening, although one of the other cars had departed, freeing up his ride.

Just another thing Mark Walker never has to worry about.

Last night Windsor Terrace reached a milestone — for the first time all the spots in the fallback location, on the curve adjacent to the park, and all the other locations I saw, were filled. I ended up parking a half-mile away, in a spot I was lucky to get. I guess two more locals now have cars. Next option — Parkside Avenue between the park and the Parade Grounds, a mile-plus away.

Ahhh, but the spot was “free.”

And in any event, someone smashed in the rear window of the SUV that was parked directly in front of my house some time last night, throwing a lug nut through it, the first car break in on the block in several years. Nothing taken, the owner told me. He figures it was juvenile vandals acting out and throwing things. Alternately, it might have been a driver who got back after I did, had no spot at all, and was filled with road rage.

Great job on the Gotham Gazette piece, Charles, Wiley and Paul.

“A lot of elected officials do not like her—Democrats and Republicans—and they have made that known to the mayor,” said one Council member who is close to the administration, adding that it would cost nothing, politically, to cut Sadik-Khan loose. “She doesn’t represent any sort of ethnic group or constituency that the mayor’s trying to pander to.”

Apparently non-drivers, the majority of the population, are not a constituency. At least not one to be pandered to.