News Sports Opinion Obituaries Contents  There are at least 176
hard-pressed commuters driving around hopeless and helpless
every weekday morning look for a legal parking spot within a
reasonable distance of the LIRR station in Port Washington.  I
was one of the them, until I learned that the only solution was
to pay someone for the use of their private property to park my
car while I went to work. I found this to be less costly than
paying the tickets, missing the bus, or taking a taxi any time I
couldn't get to town before 7:20 a.m.  Some solution!  I figures
this out the hard way, after hundreds of dollars in fines, taxi
fares, missed meetings, and being denied the right to register
or sell my car.  First, I took the bus to the station. The bus
only runs once an hour as of 5 o'clock, so there's a good chance
you'll have to take a taxi home. I made a lot of nice friends on
the N23 bus. Many of them had similar stories. Most could not
afford to buy a parking spot, though. One lady told me how her
tires were