To close or not to close Carroll Street?
A proposal to close Carroll Street during snowy school days is interesting. The school claims that the surface of its playground is too sensitive, and would rather use Carroll Street as a play area, so as not to incur further costs. A somewhat innovative idea. But leave it to the New York Post to find the lowest common denominator.
“There’s no parking as it is here — this would be a disruption. This is not the right thing to do,” fumed Beverly DiCovello, who blasted the proposal to block Carroll Street between Court and Smith streets in Carroll Gardens so that PS 58 students can frolic on days when it’s too snowy to play on school property.
Now, this proposal may be a little batty, and a sign of the perverse funding times that we live in, but, really, parking? Parking is why not to close a street for a day or two?
One would presume that the street closure would be for a few hours during especially snowy days, and that the half of Carroll Street where you can park (Did the Post neglect to mention that half of Carroll is no parking anyway? Oh, that’s right, they did.) would not be closed to parking, but rather to through traffic? And that, realistically, if it is that much snow, how many people are going to move their cars during school hours? And that the number of people who need their cars to commute daily is a miniscule minority of Carroll Gardens residents? But it’s the Post, so parking, grrr, old lady, grrrr, bureaucrats, grrrr.
