By Jennifer Glickel
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — The NYPD issued almost double the average day's parking tickets on Monday as alternate side parking rules were reinstated after a long, snow-induced hiatus, according to police.
Police wrote 9,910 tickets on Monday for vehicles in violation of alternate side parking regulations, which is nearly twice the average daily amount of 5,460, according to the New York Post.
Parking tickets average out to $55 per violation, with cops charging $65 in Manhattan's central business area and $45 elsewhere, according to the Department of Finance's website. That means Monday's deluge of tickets could amount to well over $400,000 or more.
The number of alternate side parking tickets issued in 2010 was 1,157,520, police said. In 2009, the city issued 1,186,483 tickets to alternate side parking offenders.
Several snowstorms and holidays caused the city to suspend the parking rules almost every day since Dec. 26, with the longest consecutive stretch of suspensions for 10 days as of Feb. 3.
Officers gave out the hefty summonses on Monday so the Department of Sanitation could clear snow from the curb line around the city, according to the Post.
