For diners who drive to the Belmont section of The Bronx, this may be the best app ever.
Anyone with a smartphone will now be able to feed the meter remotely at 264 parking spots — even while chowing down at one of the restaurants on the famed Arthur Avenue strip.
And coming soon will be a map for mobile devices rating the availability of parking spaces in the area using green, yellow and red signals.
“It really is everything you can think of to make your [parking] life better,” Mayor Bloomberg said in announcing the one-year pilot project.
Motorists intent on chucking their quarters would have to download an app developed by PayByPhone and supply their credit-card and license numbers. They could then scan a QR matrix code from the nearest Muni Meter. Or they could dial in the meter number to set the timer in motion.
Automatic texts or e-mails are sent when time is about to run out, allowing drivers to add minutes from wherever they are.
For the duration of the pilot program, there’s no extra charge for the service.
Thirty-five other cities already have such a system in place, including San Francisco, where there’s a 45-cent fee for every use.
The fee here will be determined after a city Request For Proposals is issued in three months and a long-term contract is negotiated with the city.
Bloomberg said the new technology should also make it easier to contest parking tickets.
“It’s always subject to people saying, ‘I paid and I didn’t pay,’ ” he said. “Here there’s a record.”