A city councilman has been flouting the law for the past two years by using part of a public plaza outside Brooklyn Borough Hall as his personal parking space, The Post has learned.
Councilman Lew Fidler (D-Brooklyn), a staunch opponent of the mayor’s congestion-pricing plan and some efforts to add new bike lanes, regularly parks on a sidewalk corridor in the plaza behind Borough Hall and walks across the street to his Court Street law office.
His 2002 Infiniti I35 has two city parking permits on its dashboard — but officials said that neither allows parking in the plaza.
His hubris is heightened by the fact that one of his placards — a coveted Citywide Agency Parking Permit — offers major privileges, including parking in Downtown Brooklyn spaces off limits to the general public.
“He wants a convenient spot next to his office and has been using the plaza even though he shouldn’t be,” said one irked city employee.
Fidler claims that he parks there only on “official business.”
But a Post reporter watched Tuesday as Fidler parked in the plaza at around 10 a.m. and then head straight to his law office before returning and driving off at 6 p.m. He never went into Borough Hall.
A city spokesman said that only borough-president office vehicles are allowed to be parked in the reserved section of the plaza behind Borough Hall, between Court and Adams streets and next to Columbus Park.
A spokesman for Borough President Marty Markowitz said the Beep allows “other elected officials” to park there “short term, but only while they are on official business at Borough Hall — and only if spaces permit.”