New York Woman Gets Car Towed After ‘No Parking’ Sign Is Installed Next to It Overnight

A woman who lives in Queens told local news outlets she came home one night last week and parked where she has for a decade, only to see her car hauled off by a New York City Police Department tow truck in the morning—along with a new “no parking” sign that had been installed about two hours before the tow. She also has $300 in fines to deal with, since her parking spot was legal when she left the car there and illegal a few hours later. Nicole Laveglia told CBS New York she parked in her usual spot when she got home from the gym at around 8:30 p.m. locally on Jan. 2, and that a neighbor was knocking on her door by 9 a.m. the next day. That’s when she saw her car going down the block behind a tow truck, and two new “No Standing Anytime” signs that had just been installed by the city’s Department of Transportation. “No Standing” signs in NYC means the only time you can really stop a car in the area is to load or unload passengers, and the passengers better be ready to go—there’s no waiting. There’s definitely no parking, either, like Laveglia’s car was. When Jalopnik’s NYC branch saw this story, which seems ridiculous to someone who doesn’t live in a large city with street parking that requires various “hacks” and “tips,” they were about as surprised as you’d expect. “Sounds pretty typical,” our deputy editor, Mike Ballaban, said. “Extremely… [Read full story]