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Cop Chooses Bike Lane Over Open Parking Spot
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John Del Signore
Published Nov 18, 2010
Modified Nov 18, 2010
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John Del Signore
Published Nov 18, 2010
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It's the little things. Like this photo of a cop parking in the bike lane on Driggs Avenue in Williamsburg, even though he could have pulled over to the curb and parked in such a way that cyclists didn't have to veer out into traffic and maybe get killed. Whatever, we're sure he was responding to an urgent life-or-death emergency and didn't have the luxury of parking his car to meet the approval of you bleeding heart bike-huggers. Of course, it's also possible the person who took this photo, Katie Sokoler, is telling the truth, in which case this cop is just an asshole. Which would shatter our whole world view, so we don't know what to make of Sokoler's account:
"I thought you would enjoy these pictures of a cop that was too freakin' lazy to park his car in the parking spot on the left and decided to park in the bike lane," Sokoler writes. "I watched the cop park it and stroll into the warehouse right next to Matchless bar. Then he just hung around talking to some of the construction guys. I was so shocked that he just left it right in the middle of that lane when there's all that free space to the left! You can see the bikers in the first pic having to ride around his car. This was at 3 p.m. on Driggs Avenue by Manhattan Avenue."
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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