derelict RVs have been parked on W. 178th St. for a long time — the one on the left apparently since 2016, no city agency has done a thing about them residents say. Because there's a trick to getting away with it, and never vacating the parking spots for residents

If the NYPD is giving a car owner too many parking tickets, he or she will just remove the vehicle’s plate, transforming the car into a “derelict” vehicle for the Sanitation Department to deal with. But before the DSNY is about to take action, the owner gets one last warning — and that’s when the vehicle’s owner slaps on a plate, any plate, which causes Sanitation workers to throw up their hands and punt it to the NYPD.

Fake plate? No problem. The NYPD will often ignore it and just issue another ticket. And so on.

At least one of the RVs on 178th Street — in plain sight of the Port Authority’s George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal — has been there since at least October, 2016, according to archival photos provided by Google, even though city parking regulations state that RVs may not park in the same spot for more than 24 hours.

Josue Perez, a local high-school teacher who ran for City Council last year, had a succinct answer: Because it’s Washington Heights!

“This would not happen in downtown,” Perez wrote to the group. “There was an abandoned van around 187th St, they only moved after someone died of an overdose in it. This shouldn’t be allowed in any city; residents feel frustrated.”

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/03/14/eyes-on-the-street-dereliction-of-duty-in-the-heights-and-inwood/