By a CH car owner

After last week’s uproar, where it was reported that the Jewish and African American sections of Crown Heights are being bypassed for parking relief, another Alternate Side Parking (ASP) issue that has residents in the district furious is the NYC Introduction 0092-2026 (Int. No. 92-A) an enacted local law allowing the Department of Transportation, Department of Sanitation (DSNY), or designated agencies like NYPD Traffic, to place adhesive stickers on motor vehicle windows to enforce alternate side parking rules. It was enacted on July 30, 2026.

The neon green stickers printed on hard-to-remove sticky labels, which are already being placed on vehicles across New York City during Alternate Side Parking. They are placed in addition to a parking ticket and are known among anti-car liberals in Prospect Heights as the “parking stickers of shame,” which can potentially cause permanent damage to vehicle windows with city-approved vandalism by leaving everlasting traces on the car windows.

In 2011, former Councilman Askan R’ David Greenfield, who represented Boro Park and Flatbush, sponsored a bill to ban these malicious stickers, making them illegal for NYC agencies to target vehicles with them; for nearly 15 years, the stickers that were previously used by the DSNY were prohibited.

But a recent city ‘introduction bill’ sponsored by progressive Councilwoman Gale Arnot Brewer (who deliberately refused to help Crown Heights when given the opportunity) and was voted yes in favor by socialist leftists Crown Heights Councilwoman Crystal Hudson and Rita Joseph (both whom have an anti-Semitic history targeting the Jewish community are bringing back the nuisance hard-to-peel stickers of shame which will likely damage most vehicles of Shchunah residents.

While both Crown Heights Council Members voted yes to bring back the damaging vehicle window stickers, our community’s Remsen Village representative actually listened to her constituents and proudly voted No.

NYC Councilwoman Darlene Mealy was one of ten council members who voted against this ‘gotcha’ far-left initiative. Council Member Mealy used to be a left-leaning Democrat, often siding with the socialists, but after her seat was challenged in 2025 by a local Remsen Village Lubavitcher—which the Jewish candidate highlighted the community and neighborhood concerns. Although Mealy won, her views, votes, and policies shifted to moderate and centrist. Councilwoman Mealy even joined the ‘NYC Council Common Sense Caucus,’ which consists of moderate Democrats and Republicans, but most importantly, she now includes all constituents in her district when representing and has a great working and positive relationship with the entire Jewish community, leaders, and Askonim.

Members of Anash highlighted and pointed out that the heroic “No vote” from Council Member Mealy ‘Al pi seichel’ was possibly because a Yid ran against her, and if our community doesn’t feel properly represented by any elected official on any level it’s important for Lubavitcher challengers to step up and run, even if the chances of winning are extremely slim it shows that we as a Jewish community take note of what are elected officials are doing and demand to be represented.

Worst comes to worst, if a Lubavitcher loses, then the incumbent may take our community more seriously, as Councilwoman Mealy has positively done. If, after an incumbent’s candidacy, be it City Council, State Assembly, NY Senate, District Leader, or any other elected office, they don’t represent the neighborhood any better after an election, then what good are ‘friends’ in public office if they are anyway against the Crown Heights Jewish community from the get-go?

Furthermore, Crown Heights vehicle owners pointed out that they understand that the car stickers, after being voted on by local elected officials, are now a city-wide issue and there’s nothing that can be done about it. But yeshiva parents stressed that the weekly Friday Alternate Side Parking drama, where the streets anyways don’t get clean due to the amount of yeshiva-dismissal related traffic—never mind during Friday’s Yomei Dipagra weekends (Tishrei, Chanukah, Yud Shevat, Yud Aleph Nissan, Gimmel Taamuz, CTeen, Pegisha, Kinnus Shluchum/Shlichos etc) with the increase of vehicles in the neighborhood for those weekends, that there physically isn’t anywhere to move cars to during street cleaning.

Crown Heights common-sense activists explained that the issue with Alternate Side Parking in Crown Heights during eventful Fridays of Yomei Dipagra weekends isn’t out of laziness or carelessness by vehicle owners; it’s simply that with thousands more visitors for Shabbos and hundreds of more vehicles being driven into the neighborhood, there simply isn’t any parking space for anyone to move their car anywhere for Alternate Side Parking. That’s why street cleaning mid-week is more applicable for a city, state, national, and international Shabbos busy visitor destination hub like Crown Heights.

All this is common-sense avoidable, and the street cleaning day can easily be changed, which will avoid dozens of Crown Heights vehicle windows from getting damaged by the twice-weekly stickers.

Yeshiva parents are encouraging the community activists to do what they should have done four years ago under the friendlier previous Adams Mayoral administration, and use their relationships to put an end to the Crown Heights Friday Alternate Side Parking fiasco. Although the chances with Mamdani’s city hall are slim, Askonim (claim to) have had great connections for many years already with local elected officials and those city and state representatives who should have assisted years ago when they first got elected—can still help facilitate the needed Alternative Side Parking changes if they want to better their district.

A concerned Crown Heights resident pointed out that a lot of the clutter on the neighborhood streets is from formerly incarcerated dangerous gang hangouts that are loitering and from Homeless drug addicts that recently moved into Crown Heights and East Flatbush shelters, who are also allegedly responsible for numerous neighborhood trash fires over the past two years, including city garbage cans placed by intersections and loose trash bags.

While it’s always easiest to blame ourselves, and like any neighborhood, yes, some of the clutter is from the local lifelong residents. But unlike the rest of New York City, Crown Heights activists have continuously taken numerous initiatives to help clean our streets with privately hired workers because, as a community, we love our beautiful neighborhood and care deeply about the cleanliness of our streets.