Last month, a Daily News reporter saw a man get into a car with Montreal plates in front of that address near 50th Street and 13th Avenue. The man, who refused to identify himself, said the car was a rental and claimed not to know anything about the parking tickets. "What is a parking ticket? Why is it illegal?," the man repeated over and over again. Then he called the Shomrim street patrol to claim the reporter was harassing him.
Above: Is this Simon Gluck? (Reuven Blau / Daily News)
Who Has The Most Dollars In Unpaid NYC Parking Tickets? Apparently A Hasid Does
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
Simon Gluck, purportedly of Montreal, Canada, owes New York City $118,878 for 870 unpaid parking tickets accumulated over the past five years, the Daily News reported today.
That makes Gluck the worst of New York City’s parking ticket scofflaws.
But that may not be the end of the story.
In what amounted to what it called a wild-goose chase, the Daily News went to Montreal to find Gluck, who, it turns out, apparently doesn’t live at the Montreal address on file for him – 5609 rue Jeanne-Mance in the heavily hasidic neighborhood of Outremont – or anywhere else in the Canadian city. What’s more, no one the Daily News spoke to there had ever heard of Gluck.
So where is he?
The Daily News found that Gluck appears to be operating a fleet of leased or rented vehicles in New York City. The parking tickets in his name were issued to 41 different vehicles, and most of the tickets were issued in and around the heavily hasidic neighborhood of Borough Park, Brooklyn.
City parking officials reportedly could not explain why Gluck’s vehicles have almost never been booted or towed – even though over the past five years, they got 73 parking tickets in front of one Borough Park home alone.
Last month, a Daily News reporter saw a man get into a car with Montreal plates in front of that address near 50th Street and 13th Avenue. (Please see the above photo.) The man, who refused to identify himself, said the car was a rental and claimed not to know anything about the parking tickets.
"What is a parking ticket? Why is it illegal?," the man repeated over and over again. Then he called the Shomrim street patrol to claim the reporter was harassing him.
One of Gluck's vehicles was reportedly towed by the city in March and was later sold at auction in June – apparently the only tim this has happened to Gluck, who appears to have more than three dozen other vehicles operating in the city.