Parking spaces are scarce in Brooklyn neighborhoods, but Dyker Heights has a problem that is escalating to new levels of insanity this holiday season. The Dyker Heights Post Office is at the center of a fierce war over on-street parking spaces, and community board along with U.S. Rep. Dan Donovan, are working overtime, hoping to deliver a solution to the situation. The controversy focusses on that the Dyker Heights Post Office has no garage. As a result, postal workers park USPS delivery trucks on the street. That doesn’t sit well with local homeowners, who wonder why the trucks are hogging precious parking spaces on their residential blocks.
Amplifying the problem, the USPS had increased the number of trucks at this location because of an increase in deliveries. In recent weeks, five postal workers discovered that people are leaving scratch marks on the vehicles. The community board has received complaints from residents about the parking situation.