A Parking Dispute Where the Judges Aren’t Exactly Impartial

If you translate the Uptown Mall parking / parkland debate to New York City, this is what you get: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/n...

For more than 60 years, the judges have used this as a parking lot. For roughly half that time public officials, neighborhood gadflies and parents have argued that it should be converted into a park. Their argument is based on more than a stubborn desire for more green space: The land is parkland.

a retired judge actually argued in the New York Times that judges need to use a city park as a parking lot because he once required round-the-clock protection due to the imminent threat of a voodoo curse www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/n...

The security argument is a canard. There's a huge garage across the street in the Marriott, which has to be a much safer place for revenge-fearing judges to park than a place that everyone knows is where judges park their cars. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/n...

This is not right. If it's a park, then it's not a parking lot.

The safety argument is ridiculous. If anyone wanted to harm a judge, the first place they'd look is the area designated as the judges' parking lot. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/n...

You can't judge us. We police ourselves. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/n...

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[NYT] A PARKING DISPUTE WHERE THE JUDGES AREN’T EXACTLY IMPARTIAL