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Reports that the New York City Department of Transportation lifted its suspension of alternate-side parking rules several days after a snowstorm. Protest for the city's earlier plans to resume alternate-side rules; Challenges facing car owners.

The reports on grievances of drivers about New York City's decision to retain parking rules on an unusually slushy spring day, which experience snowfall, and mentions that people posted complaints about the decision on social media.

Focuses on New York City's alternate-side-of-the-street parking regulation, which prohibits parking on the side of the street scheduled for cleaning. Inconveniences that alternate-side parking causes for drivers; Opportunity that the bustle-free period required for the ritual of moving their cars from side to side offers for people to engage in activities that are meaningful to them.

Alternate-side parking regulations in New York City will be suspended on Monday in observance of Lincoln's Birthday. Other regulations will remain in effect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

APP Can I Park Here PLATFORMiPhone [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Following are the days on which alternate-side street-cleaning rules will be suspended in New York City. Boldface indicates major legal holidays, when stopping, standing and parking are permitted, except where bans are normally in effect seven days a week. Drivers should follow posted signs carefully to avoid tickets. Dr. King's Birthday (observed) Jan. 16 Mon.Asian Lunar New Year Jan. 23 Mon.Lincoln's Birthday Feb. 12 Sun.Lincoln's Birthday (observed) Feb. 13 Mon.Washington's Birthday (observed) Feb. 20 Mon.Ash Wednesday Feb. 22 Wed.Purim March 8 Thurs.Holy Thursday April 5 Thurs.Good Friday April 6 Fri.Passover (first/second day) April 7-8 Sat.-Sun.Holy Thursday (Orthodox) April 12 Thurs.Good Friday (Orthodox) April 13 Fri.Passover (seventh/eighth day) April 13-14 Fri.-Sat.Solemnity of the Ascension May 17 Thurs.Shavuot (2 days) May 27-28 Sun.-Mon.Memorial Day May 28 Mon.Independence Day (observed) July 4 Wed.Feast of the Assumption Aug. 15 Wed.Id al-Fitr (3 days) Aug. 19-21 Sun.-Tues.Labor Day Sept. 3 Mon.Rosh Hashana (2 days) Sept. 17-18 Mon.-Tues.Yom Kippur Sept. 26 Wed.Sukkot (2 days) Oct. 1-2 Mon.-Tues [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On Thursday, because of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, alternate-side street-cleaning regulations in New York City will be suspended. Other regulations will remain in effect. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Because of the Jewish holidays of Shemini Atzeret and Simhat Torah, alternate-side street-cleaning regulations will be suspended in New York City on Thursday and Friday. Other regulations will remain in effect. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Because of Yom Kippur, alternate-side street-cleaning regulations will be suspended in New York City on Saturday. Other regulations remain in effect. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Cars may be cocooned in ice, sidewalks still filled with frozen garbage. But according to New York City's parking gods, Monday was business as usual. For the first time in 17 days, alternate-side parking regulations were back in effect, unleashing the bizarre urban ritual of otherwise rational-seeming adults holing up in their automobiles in the middle of the day and circling neighborhoods for hours, waiting for the big bad street sweepers to make their pass. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Because of the Asian Lunar New Year, alternate-side street-cleaning regulations will be suspended on Thursday in New York City. Other regulations will remain in effect. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

City Council members say that granting a five-minute grace period for alternate-side-of-the-street parking and certain meter violations would simply give wiggle room to drivers who may have lost track of time. But many city traffic agents say that all it would do is delay the inevitable curbside argument by five minutes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Of all the tiny tortures that come with driving a car in New York City, perhaps none are more taxing than the ritual of alternate-side-of-the-street parking. It's the peaceful morning ruined by an early alarm, the tedium of circling for a space, the despair of spying a tuft of tickets growing from a windshield wiper. But starting on Wednesday, drivers in a portion of the Bronx will be granted a rare reprieve: The city is suspending the rules for six to eight weeks. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A PARKING PARDON Built on a Furor [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Because of Shavuot, alternate-side street-cleaning regulations will be suspended in New York City on Tuesday. Other regulations remain in effect. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It is a routine so ingrained in the New Yorker's life that it seems to have always existed: And on the sixth day, God created man. And on the seventh day, while God rested, man had to go move his car because of alternate-side parking rules. Plenty of New Yorkers spend more time each week parking than they do in a house of worship, or visiting aging parents, or reading to kids. And nowhere is this truer than in Park Slope, Brooklyn, named not for the ability to do just that -- park -- but for the kind with grass and trees, useless to drivers. Even on a good day, parking is scarce: No-Park Slope. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Because of Good Friday and Purim, alternate-side street-cleaning regulations will be suspended in New York City. Other regulations remain in effect. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents several questions and their answers, related to New York City. One person wants to know if it is illegal to feed pigeons in the city. Another reader questions whether there are exceptions for off duty officers to park their cars near stop signs. Another person asks, what occupied the land which now houses Co-op city.

The article reports on the decision by the New York City Department of Transportation on the alternate side of the street parking rules. The department has considered to keep up with its decision of not allowing alternate side of the street parking, which was suspended resulting to an outcry by drivers after a snowstorm, a few days before.

Reports on the suspension of alternate-side parking regulations in New York City in observance of the late U. S. President Abraham Lincoln birthday.

Reports that a state senator from Brooklyn, New York City, Kevin S. Parker, is accused of punching a traffic agent in the face as the agent writing summons for the senator's double parked cars. Involvement of the senator in a minor accident with another driver; Testimony of the witnesses of the incidents.

Presents a chart regarding the days of the suspension of the alternate-side street-cleaning rules in New York City.

Reports on the action taken by the administration of New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in July 2001 to address the problem of illegal parking by diplomats.

Reports that delivery truck drivers in New York City will be charged for parking when they are loading and unloading around Times Square. Statement that the plan is the beginning of an effort to impose order on the city's most chaotic streets; Utilization of congestion pricing, which attempts to control commercial parking by varying the rates depending on the time of day; Description of the pilot plan, which will use computerized parking meters.

Reports that Brooklyn Borough's President Howard Golden joined community activists to protest parking signs regulations in neighborhoods on the Downtown Brooklyn waterfront. Reason for protest; Information on City Councilmember Ken Fisher's involvement in protest; Comments from Golden.

Announces the visit of the Wienermobile to New York and cites the troubles faced by its owners in the city.

Provides tabular information about the suspension of parking regulations on certain days of 1995, in New York.

Reports on an announcement by New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, on April 19, 1997, that he would remove another 15 or 20 parking spaces for diplomats in New York City seeking to punish the State Department for withdrawing from an agreement. What the agreement entailed; Comments made by Stephanie Eicher, spokeswoman for the State Department.

Reports that United Nations diplomats in New York are opposing rules imposed by New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani which would take away their parking privileges. Arguments which were raised at a meeting of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country; Details on the rules; Belief that this is a political tactic by Giuliani.

Reports on the views of lawyers for the United Nations, who contend that New York City's plan to take tougher action against diplomats who violate city parking laws, was a breach of international law. Provisions made under the rules; Comments from New York Deputy Mayor Randy M. Mastro; Examples of parking laws broken by diplomats.

Comments on the order by New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani that there be a review of New York City's parking regulations, due to complaints by some motorists. Reasons for the complaints.

Informs that the New York City Council has unanimously passed a bill that would allow special parking privileges to clergy members. Allowing them to park next to their places of worship, and near hospitals or funeral parlors, in previously illegal spaces; The time-limit per use; Other groups with special parking permits, including doctors, dentists, journalists, and the disabled.