Moving Out? Lander wants to Help.

For all the disgruntled people out there getting suckered into helping your friends move and then getting stuck driving the moving van around the block a hundred times because your friend is too cheap to pay a parking ticket: Brad Lander feels your pain and he wants to help.

The Brooklyn Paper reported on Tuesday that the City Councilmember introduced a bill last week to establish a special system of moving day parking permits, which would allow you to reserve a parking spot in front of your nasty old place and another spot in front of your shiny new one. Then you can just have a nap in the car while your friend carries your piano up five flights of stairs.

As the Brooklyn Paper reports, Lander imagines the permits working similarly to the city-issued street fair permits, with online applications and a requirement to show evidence of the impending change of address. He expects the permits to cost between $50 and $100.

According to the Brooklyn Paper, the bill was inspired by an incident 20 years ago when Lander himself was that sucker, moving heavy furniture from a parking spot a block down the street from its destination.