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A LOT OF TROUBLE
Kings Plaza bigwigs raise parking fees days before city
slaps mall with second violation for illegally storing cars
Crackdown led
to new parking
fees, locals say
Hundreds of cars
found illicitly
stashed at site
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
City inspectors again slapped
the owner of Kings Plaza
Shopping Center with violations
for illegally storing cars
in its parking garage, just four
months after issuing another
fi ne for the same offense.
The Feb. 6 violations came
after agency offi cials found
about 500 cars without license
plates or registration stickers
parked on the fourth and fi fth
fl oors of the garage — roughly
50 more vehicles than they
found during their inspection
last October , which followed
an alleged arson attack
that injured 21 people and destroyed
more than a hundred
cars the month before.
The parking garage’s certifi
cate of occupancy only allows
for “accessory parking”
for the mall — meaning spots
for shoppers and mall employees,
but not for vehicle storage.
The mall’s owner, Brooklyn
Kings Plaza LLC, could
face a maximum fi ne of $25,000
for the repeat offense, according
to a Department of Buildings
spokesman, who asked
not to be named because the
fi nes are determined by a separate
city agency, the Offi ce
of Administrative Trials and
BUSTED AGAIN: The owners of Kings Plaza Shopping Center on Feb. 8 received a second violation for storing
500 new cars for local dealerships, some 50 more vehicles than city inspectors found during their
October visit to the mall in the wake of a September arson attack. Photo by Steve Solomonson Continued on page 12
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
Locals are fuming over new
parking-fee hikes at Kings
Plaza Shopping Center that
mall bigwigs implemented
earlier this month.
The new parking rates effective
Feb. 1 — which cost
$3 for two hours, $4 for three
hours, $5 for four hours, and
$10 for between four and 24
hours — are an attempt to replace
revenue the Avenue U
mall will lose by stopping its
illegal scheme to rent out hundreds
of spaces as storage for
local car dealerships, claimed
a local civic leader.
“Now that we recently
caused the removal of the storage
of more than 400 illegally
parked cars from neighboring
dealerships from their parking
lot, they raised the parking
fees for the shoppers,” said
Dottie Turano, the district
manager of local Community
Board 18.
Last year, the city ordered
the mall’s current owners,
Brooklyn Kings Plaza LLC, to
remove hundreds of cars without
license plates illegally
stored on the Kings Plaza lot
following a disastrous September
arson attack that injured
21 and destroyed hundreds of
vehicles.
Continued on page 12
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