HUDseen hopes to do a big dive into the unwelcome parking situations surrounding the Pocketbook Hudson Hotel and Baths -- on Prospect, on Washington, on 6th, and on all the other nearby streets that are also feeling the push-out effects. For now, though, take a look at these pictures I took yesterday around noon of a delivery being made to the business complex.
The large and wide delivery truck was parked completely in the southbound lane of busy 6th Street for at least fifteen minutes, and I can tell you that the delivery driver was not at all happy about where he was told to park his delivery truck and make his delivery to the Pocketbook's only delivery area, found on the 6th Street side of the building. He told me he was not happy about the situation, as any reasonable delivery driver would feel.
Anyone can plainly see that, regardless of snow, this is WRONG AND HORRIBLE FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD, RESIDENTS AND ALL DRIVERS IN THE AREA and that it should be COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE to Hudson City Hall just as much as it should have been unacceptable to the Hudson Planning Board. But here we are, dealing with a wealthy developer doing things their way while ignoring the neighborhood and traffic safety.
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| 6th & Washington, busy and getting a lot busier. |
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| Delivery truck on right, truck on left parked for at least three days and nights unticketed. Overnight parking rules exist on Washington but not on 6th. Park there for as long as you like, even months! |
A few minutes before the delivery truck on 6th moved on, a smaller but none the less large delivery truck arrived at the nearby busy intersection. There was just enough space on Washington at the southwest corner for the driver to park his truck, otherwise I don't know where he would have parked it. The driver got a case or two of wine out of the back of the truck (with New Jersey plates) and wheeled them down the new 4-foot wide sidewalk along 6th Street to the delivery entrance. I wasn't around to see the driver and his truck leave, but the truck was either backed up to get back on 6th Street or it was driven down one way, narrow, lined-with-houses Washington Street and proceeded to make its way back to the truck route (hopefully). Or maybe the driver go lost and wandered around looking for the way out of town to get to his next wine delivery or back to New Jersey.
Notice that the new 2- or 3-month old curb ramp at the corner still has not been painted yellow. HPD cannot issue $25 NO PARKING ZONE tickets to vehicles parked too close to intersections if there is no yellow curb for them to take pictures of. Had the curb been properly painted yellow days after the ramp and concrete curbs were created, this truck would have been parked partially in an official NO PARKING ZONE and able to be ticket by HPD. The question is, who didn't paint the curb ramps yellow (including at Prospect!), DPW or the Pocketbook's sidewalk paving contractor? And when the hell will someone get to it NEXT YEAR when warmer, more suitable weather for painting concrete returns in May? And who will pay to get the two curb ramps painted yellow? Will it be city taxpayers or Sean Roland and Gabe Katz by way of their NYC-based real estate business called Surtsey Realty Company? They had the curbs installed, after all! And no one from Hudson City Hall made sure they painted the curb ramps yellow right away and properly.
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| That's the delivery driver in red far down the sidewalk. |
If the new, short and questionably useful perpendicular "curb" shown below was able to be painted yellow by Pocketbook's paving contractor, why the hell weren't the curb ramps on 6th at Prospect and 20 feet away at Washington also painted yellow at the same fucking time? Did someone "forget" to do it? Doesn't painting curb ramps yellow mainly keep pedestrians safe? Would Sean and Gabe (and Rob Perry) prefer that the two curb ramps along 6th Street never get yellow painted? Wouldn't doing so allow the Pocketbook more parking for their employees, delivery trucks and guests needing a bath of some sort? Yes, it would, just as long as the cars of local residents don't get in the way!
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| Does anyone know what the hell this is? Is there anything like it elsewhere in Hudson? A yellow curb only ever means NO PARKING! |
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