Article: Wooster STreet residents fed up with parking problems

Petition on parking sets stage for battle on Wooster Street

Tired of pizza mongers devouring on-street parking, Wooster Street residents are petitioning for better parking privileges in the city's famed Little Italy neighborhood.

However, the suggestion to retool the parking rules have some of the owners of Wooster Street's longest surviving businesses on edge about any erosion of customer parking.

"We've been on this street for 80 years, and all of a sudden they want to make it residential?" said Mae DeFelice, whose father founded Libby's Italian Pastry Shop, 139 Wooster St. "Forget about it. Wooster Street will be shut down if they do this."

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