When you try this I predict it will result in NO PARKING anywhere within the downtown during these hours. Regardless of how you want to blame it on the employees this will result in no turnover of the spaces that are most in demand; then we will doubtless hear more complaining about lack of available parking and the need for us to spend millions on a parking garage.

Nyack’s real estate and merchant elites still continue to believe that Nyack owes them a living. Forget about a Business Improvement District (BID) when you have a feckless Government and an apathetic constituency.
What can you say about a group (The Chamber of Commerce) who accepts a gift of free flower s for the planters from the Garden club, a truly community spirited gift, and then lobbies the Village hall to buy an ATV and pay a DPW employee to water the flowers!

In another economy it would be laughable but not these days.

While the bartenders can charge whatever they want for a martini, and a landlord can charge whatever rent he chooses, those of us who actually own and pay for the streets and their maintenance are constrained from collecting a fair market price for reasonable access our collective asset, namely the parking spaces. You chose to ignore the expert opinion we paid $35K for and marginalize an expert Parking Authority (for largely personal reasons) which outlined a sophisticated plan for better economical use of Nyacks existing assets and instead we now have a politically driven ad hoc arrangement guided largely by sycophants and other clearly unethical individuals with a financial interest in the redevelopment of Nyack. Including a parking garage.

I am not arguing against the conventional wisdom that supporting a healthy Downtown benefits everyone but I am saying enough already from those of you who don’t stay open after 5 or 6 pm during the week or even on weekends, every successful fisherman I know prefers to fish when the fish are biting, and those who would let the storefronts remain empty instead of even considering a Business Improvement District and perhaps (gasp) lowering the rents for awhile to allow for business startups to compete with the neighboring mall and flourish. No it must be the parking.

Its the old carny trick of keeping the patsies eyes focused on the left hand while the right hand picks your pocket.

Oh and by the way, when did the chairs and tables of a sidewalk cafe permit morph into stanchions and chained off sidewalks with less than 18 inches in some places to walk by all the drunks?

Please, you want some cheese with that whine?

My main concern is that employees will take advantage of this parking forgiveness and will subvert the purpose. I hope that business owners will make sure that this does not happen.

If it is not possible for business owners to monitor their employees there is no purpose for this parking forgiveness.