The veteran lawmaker says she has gotten at least 20 constituent complaints about the issue this year.Īmazon has so many home deliveries in the Big Apple that the company doesn’t have the capacity to directly deliver packages themselves, but rather contracts the job to outside delivery companies with their own workers.

“It is like Whac-A-Mole,” said Manhattan Councilwoman Gale Brewer, adding that trucks would move from one location after a complaint to another. Last November the City Council passed a bill aimed at curbing the issue by introducing loading-only parking spots in affected neighborhoods - but so far results have been limited. With its ultra high-density high-rises, the Upper East Side is also uniquely susceptible to Amazon delivery jams. The problem is not unique to the Upper West Side. Many of the the trucks are surrounded by what appear to be city traffic cones - but actually belong to Amazon, multiple delivery men said.Īmazon tests delivery of packages directly from shopping malls

Helayne Seidman An Amazon contract deliver truck parked on Columbia Avenue on the Upper West Side. Residents and business owners on the Upper West Side have had enough of the contract delivery drivers. Some Amazon employees confirmed they had been double-parked for hours. The Post found at least four Amazon delivery trucks hogging up sections of Columbus this week. “If these vehicles are observed in violation, a summons is issued.”Įvan’s truck was not an outlier. “The NYPD does not allow Amazon delivery vehicles to double park or violate any parking regulations,” a department spokesman countered.

“The … said it’s OK to double park here,” said driver Shawn Evans from a frenzied “mobile distribution hub” - a euphemism for the mammoth trucks that double and triple park while workers scurry to unload their contents onto cluttered streets and sidewalks.Įvans said he had been unloading at his location along Columbus Avenue on the Upper West Side for more than three hours with a truck containing “1,500 … 1,600” items. Over 345,000 children’s cups recalled over high levels of leadĪmazon told drivers not to worry about van surveillance - now footage has leaked onlineĪmazon delivery drivers who cause traffic chaos when they commandeer huge stretches of Big Apple streets are getting more brazen, with one claiming that cops gave them license to do so. Meta, Google, OpenAI commit to White House pact on responsible AI development Amazon ordering corporate workers to relocate as part of return-to-office policy

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