Cars are GOD in NYC. I was there on business for a week at the UN. We had a car and were given a free suite at the Hotel Penta - right across from Madison Square Garden. So where to put the car? The hotel doorman told us to park it in front of the No Parking sign. We protested it would get towed! "No. No one's gonna tow it. Just put a plastic-bag over da sine!" Our driver complied and shinnied up the post and bagged the sign.

There it sat. For 8 days. In an extremely high traffic area and tourist-trap. No one boddered it. I hate New York.