"Billionaire insists he has legal parking spot on West Village street, infuriating neighbors who say he created a fake space for himself"

In some neighborhoods, or the entire city of Boston, behavior like this could get you shot.
Parking is serious stuff.

From the New York Daily News:

The disputed curb space has ‘No Parking’ signs on the building doors, but neighbors 

say it’s just a sham driveway (Danielle Hyams/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)

A billionaire hedge fund honcho carved out a personal driveway in a West Village sidewalk — and didn’t pay a dime for the brazen annexation of public space.

Deep-pocketed investor Noam Gottesman — who built himself a corner compound on Jane and Washington Sts. over a decade ago — gave himself the ultimate upgrade during the renovation process: his own private parking spot on one of the city’s most coveted streets.

The sleight-of-hand was achieved thanks to what the Department of Buildings says is an illegal curb cut — an unauthorized slice into the edges of the city sidewalk to make it appear as if a driveway exists at 777 Washington St....MUCH MORE, a major story