Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine has almost paid $2,000 in parking tickets and site visitors violations since August 2016.
Helayne Seidman
He’s gas of it.
Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine – an anti-car extremist peddling a pie-in-the-sky bike lane plan for the West Aspect Freeway – has racked up 41 vehicular violations in lower than a decade, together with dashing, blowing crimson lights, and even blocking a motorbike lane, a Submit evaluation of public knowledge reveals.
And now his newly assigned metropolis driver is seemingly following in his “lead-footsteps.”
The progressive Democrat has shelled out $1,895 – together with $110 in late charges – since August 2016 to repay 18 parking tickets and one other 4 citations issued to his privately owned 2012 Honda CR-V, after being caught on digicam operating crimson lights and dashing by means of college security zones, based on metropolis information.
Amongst them is a $115 ticket slapped on his windshield in March 2019 for parking alongside a bicycle lane close to Fort Washington Avenue in Washington Heights.
The web site HowsMyDriving.nyc – which tracks motor-vehicle knowledge additional again than accessible metropolis information reviewed by The Submit – reveals Levine’s SUV was hit with one other 19 parking tickets since August 2013, together with violations for blocking a bus cease, misusing a government-issued parking placard and blowing off meters.
Since taking workplace as borough president in January, Levine has loved the added perk of gaining access to a Toyota Highlander SUV that comes with its personal chauffeur.
Since Feb. 16, the city-issued experience has been ticketed eight instances totaling $790 in fines, together with thrice for being caught on digicam dashing at school zones and one other for driving by means of a crimson mild, based on information. The SUV was additionally nabbed thrice for varied “bus lane violations” and as soon as for parking in entrance of a fireplace hydrant.
“Mark Levine’s conflict on automobiles continues — however apparently it doesn’t apply to him,” quipped Councilman Robert Holden (D-Queens). “He’s the final one who needs to be advocating for extra bike lanes, having been caught blocking one.”
Holden alleged Levine is responsible of the identical “hypocrisy” as Comptroller Brad Lander and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams – two different “hard-left progressives who pander to the anti-car crowd whereas driving automobiles.” Each pols have been beforehand uncovered by The Submit for poor driving information.
As a former Higher West Aspect councilman from 2014 by means of 2021, lefty-Dem Levine devoted loads of power catering to longtime political supporters, together with highly effective street-safety and different special-interest teams like StreetsPAC and the New York League of Conservation Voters which are lobbying for town to considerably scale back the numbers of automobiles on its streets.
As borough president, Levine’s put the pedal to medal even tougher combating for the next anti-car causes:
- Hefty “congestion pricing” tolls to enter components of Manhattan.
- A revised utility course of to assist guarantee most appointments he makes as borough president to group boards aren’t automobile homeowners.
- A controversial new plan to transform a southbound part of the routinely gridlocked West Aspect Freeway right into a four-mile-long bike lane – though there’s already a motorbike lane that runs adjoining to it at Hudson River Park suffering from unlawful motorbikes.
Levine raised eyebrows final month when he touted his personal suggestions for the way congestion-pricing needs to be rolled out whereas addressing Manhattan Neighborhood Board 5 by way of a teleconference name he produced from — of all locations — a automobile.
Levine apologized to board members for the “bizarre setting,” insisting he was being chauffeured to get to scheduled occasions on time.
“The irony of getting @MarkLevineNYC advocate for congestion pricing in Manhattan from the posh of his taxpayer, chauffeured automobile is just not misplaced on us,” tweeted Save the Higher West Aspect, which referred to the borough president as a “Limousine liberal.”
A Levine spokesman informed The Submit the borough president “believes site visitors and parking enforcement is crucial, truthful, and a part of residing in a metropolis, and like some other accountable New Yorker, the tickets on his household automobile have been instantly paid.”
When requested in regards to the tickets amassed by the motive force of Levine’s new metropolis automobile, the spokesman stated the borough president’s “Human Assets workforce was made conscious of those infractions and has since labored to make sure that future infractions are minimized and security on the highway is prioritized.”
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