The Twisted-up values of urbanite Americans
The city is replacing all the parking signs in Park Slope and will suspend alternate-side parking in order to facilitate the process. The NYT has a funny tongue-in-cheek, ever-so-slightly-caustic piece about it. My favorite bit:
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.