By Gabriela Resto-Montero
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
GRAMERCY — They may have escaped parking tickets, but Police Academy supervisors who have been taking up Gramercy street parking spots with their personal vehicles reportedly received a stern warning from NYPD officials.
Wilbur Chapman, a deputy commissioner with the NYPD, warned officers to stop parking their cars on East 20th Street or risk losing their department-issue placards, the New York Daily News reported.
Gramercy residents complained to DNAinfo in November about the rampant problem of officers and supervisors with the Police Academy blocking nieghbors out of spots on a stretch of Second Avenue in the East 20s.
After the New Year, several residents reported seeing fake NYPD parking signs allowing supervisors to park at prime spots around the academy.
The bogus parking signs have been taken down but most of the metered parking spaces on East 20th Street and around the Police Academy continue to be taken up by department vehicles, the Daily News reported.
