A mobile-phone app designed to make parking easier has proved just the opposite for some New York city drivers, who say they’re getting tickets even though they’re paying the virtual meter.
One of those drivers is Natalie Noel, a project manager who lives in Brooklyn. She uses ParkNYC regularly for her commute to work, but in July 2017 she received a $45 parking ticket at the Canarsie Municipal Parking Field on Rockaway Parkway in Brooklyn, despite paying with the app.
“After paying for it, I come home, and I see [a ticket] on the car and I’m like, ‘What are you talking about? I paid for this!’” she says. “I double-chec