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I've seen uber/lyft cars crossing the park on 9th from B to A a couple of times this year...

Why aren't the candidates campaigning at Tompkins Square Park for the August 23, 2022 Primary Elections (Brian Kavanagh, Carlina Rivera, Jo Anne Simon, Vittoria Fariello, and others) addressing this issue? Every Sunday, these candidates campaign in Tompkins Square Park, near the Greenmarket. Don't you think that's intriguing?

Nearly every evening and night, 2nd Ave. sounds like a Monster Car Jam is going on. Should we alert our Council Member? - oh wait, she's busy running for something else. Oh well.....

The fact that it's a Ford Mustang also leads me to think it was speeding. How much do you wanna bet this car used to enjoy a "career" of drag racing on public streets?

They are supposed to lock the gates at nite , guess police are doing anymore ???

Time to put bollards at all the park entrances. Let is have the cool iron bell-shaped ones, not the ugly concrete ones.

Anyone know if there was a passenger? That looks like it could have been really bad on the passenger side of the car w.r.t. the iron fence.

Just what the heck do you need to do to get arrested in NYC?

This shouldn’t be able to happen in our parks. We’ve got strung out people not coordinated and toddlers, also not coordinated. It should not be possible for cars, fast motorized bikes or fast bikers to go through the park. This is a park for pedestrians. You can contact the new parks Dept commissioner and let them know about these two incidents in the park. https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/home/mail/html/maildpr.html

9:39 is right. I'm passing through the park alot but no means a regular and I've seen at least two cars cruise across the 9th Street road and one weaving past the temperance fountain in the past year. 2:55 we're gonna need the fancy euro bollards that lower so the cops can still cruise through, lol.

I am absolutely not surprised in the slightest that it's a douchemobile model of low-grade "muscle" car with illegally blacked out windows and probably fake plates and one of those stupid exhaust mods which make the car sound like a toddler on the potty. The guys who drive these things have the mental age of 6.

If you see them, snap a photo clearly showing the plate and upload it to the TLC's complaint system via the ReportedNYC app. They will absolutely get a fine.

two words, Bridge & Tunnel

not defending cars in the park , but police do patrol it in unmarked cars from time to time

Wonder why the 3 major papers The New York Daily News , The NY Post and the New York Times have not covered the car incidents in Tompkins Square Park ? Obviously from the amount of comments these EV Grieve stories have generated a lot of attention. These days Tompkins Square Park has lost it's media attraction except when the NYPD busts houseless people in tents. Message is atttack a woman with a shovel and drive into the park after or wreck a car in the park and damage park property and the Cops take no action but put up a tent and they call out an army to arrest poor people.

There was a minivan that drove into the park at 9th St and B this evening. The guy was obviously lost and stopped when people screamed at him that he was in a park and not on a road. He struggled to turn the van around, but did so and left. I'm wondering if GPS is telling drivers to turn onto 9th Street from Ave B?

I was wondering about this too-it wouldn’t be the first time.

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