There are two things that a small, but vocal minority of people that live in and/or who frequent Bay Ridge love to do:

1. Double park their cars.
2. Complain about receiving tickets for said double parked cars.

They tend to live in a ‘but it’s me’ and ‘I was only double parked for five minutes so it should be okay’ mentality.

It’s due to that small, arrogant and ignorant minority that makes walking, driving and generally living in Bay Ridge to be much more hazardous that other outer-borough neighborhoods. 

Take a look at this scene from Friday afternoon along 5th Avenue at 88th Street.

Thank you, automobile drivers who were ‘just there for a few minutes’ to make this photo possible and give the driver of that van trying to squeeze by several minutes of frustration and good use of his horn blowing skills.