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June 30, 2008
Summons drives Wendell Gault to battle for justice over broken parking
NY Daily News
by Clem Richardson
Atlantic Yards makes a cameo appearance in a story about a Prospect Heights man who fought the system — and won!
[Wendell] Gault is not one to let things go. He has fired off letters to elected officials about a number of community issues, from the nearby Atlantic Yards project to the inequity of having alternate side parking four times a week in Prospect Heights but only twice a week across Flatbush Ave. in Park Slope ("Are they saying we're dirtier on this side of Flatbush?" he asked.)
...Armed with a video camera, Microsoft's Moviemaker program and with girlfriend Linda Simpkins providing technical assistance, he made a film clip of the meter doing its shortchanging thing.
Gault took the video to his hearing. It was enough to convince Associate Law Judge Richard Ballerini to throw out the ticket.
"He said if I went to that much trouble, I must be telling the truth," Gault said.
Meter 324-0188 was still broken as of Friday.
NoLandGrab: And Bruce Ratner probably likes it that way, since in the Forest City Ratner playbook, a broken parking meter is no doubt cited as evidence of "blight."
Posted by eric at June 30, 2008 9:13 AM