When it comes to helping drivers, there’s no shortage of in-car technology from GPS navigation to collision-warning systems. But now start-ups are tackling a perennial source of frustration – finding a parking space. With the parking industry worth $25 billion a year in the United States and more than twice that in western Europe, it’s…
Getting in and out of the parking garage could soon be easier for some New York drivers — thanks to an Israeli app. The Israel-founded mobile parking payment system Pango launches its smartphone app today in New York’s Imperial Parking Systems garage chain. Drivers can use the free Pango application for iPhone, Android and Blackberry…
French police have arrested two men accused of assaulting members of a Jewish family in the family’s home in Nice in a dispute over a parking space. The men tried to break into the family’s apartment in the southern French city on Oct. 15 after the family had the men’s car towed away from a…
Shabbat is known as the “day of rest,” and the etymology of Jerusalem is often said to be “city of peace.” But this Shabbat in Jerusalem was neither restful nor peaceful. Some 28 Haredi demonstrators were arrested during riots over the opening of a parking lot. Six people were wounded. On Friday night, thousands of…
In the second parking-related hubbub that has infuriated some Jews in about as many months, a YouTube clip that shows the likeness of Adolf Hitler enraged over a 250-shekel parking fine in Tel Aviv, has some Holocaust survivors up in arms. The parody, which borrows footage from “Downfall” — the 2004 movie about Hitler’s final…
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