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Monday, October 05, 2009

Thou shalt double park 



Where's the fire, rabbi?

The city Correction Department rabbi who resigned after The Post revealed he organized a bar-mitzvah bash for an inmate's son behind bars recently has been parking illegally while displaying a placard that falsely claims he is a firefighter.

The Post spotted Rabbi Leib Glanz using an official Uniformed Firefighters Association placard Friday while praying in a Williamsburg synagogue.

In June, the Post exposed how the politically connected rabbi organized a bar mitzvah last December for the son of notorious fraudster and longtime fugitive Tuvia Stern in the downtown Manhattan jail known as The Tombs. The soiree had dozens of non-inmates as guests, featured catered kosher food and a live performance by popular Orthodox Jewish singer Yaakov Shwekey.
IN THE ZONE: Rabbi Leib Glanz retrieves his SUV from a no-standing zone and, once inside the vehicle, shuffles the deck of parking permits identifying him as a firefighter and ambulance worker.

Several former inmates soon afterward said Glanz for years had arranged for Jewish inmates to be housed at The Tombs, where he let them use his office to watch movies, make phone calls and nosh on kosher delicacies.

The exposé sparked a still-pending Department of Investigation probe into Correction's coddling of Jewish inmates, as well as the resignations of Glanz and Correction chief Peter Curcio, who didn't stop the rabbi's flouting of jailhouse policy.

But Glanz apparently still has friends in high places.

A Post reporter saw a black Chevy Suburban with official license plates double-parked Friday in front of Glanz's home on Ross Street in Brooklyn. The vehicle had emergency lights on the roof and dashboard. Also on the dashboard were two parking placards.

One read, "Active firefighter . . . This vehicle is on official UFA Business . . . Uniformed Firefighters Association . . . Expires Feb 1, 2010 . . . #22344." The other was a placard from "Chevra Hatzolah," the volunteer emergency ambulance service.

At 7:30 a.m., Glanz drove to Wilson Street and Division Avenue and parked at a school where signs read, "No Standing 7 a.m.-7 p.m., School Days." Glanz went into a synagogue at 210 Division Ave.

A friend asked why a photographer was taking pictures and then got the keys and moved the SUV to a "No Standing 9 a.m.-5 p.m." zone.

Glanz came out about 9 a.m. and said he was given the firefighter placard by the Fire Department "as a courtesy" so he could park at the main synagogue of the Satmar sect on Hooper Street.

"In case I have to respond, I can park there. There aren't a lot of spaces," he said.

Asked why he was using the placard away from the Hooper Street synagogue, Glanz replied: "I'm willing to take it off. I don't need it."

He removed the two placards and drove off.

A spokesman for the firefighters' union could not immediately answer why Glanz had a placard but said that the placards are meant to be issued only to professional firefighters.

"In past years, unauthorized personnel have been arrested for misusing these vehicle identification placards, so if someone illegally obtains one, we highly recommend returning it to the UFA or turning it in to a local police precinct," the UFA said in a prepared statement.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/thou_shalt_double_park_Y2GoojdDZybm0Iur7QNqyJ

Comments:
pure chutzpah

 

This reporter has nothing better to do. I WILL NO LONGER PURCHASE THE POST !!! There are 1000's of people in NYC with BS plaques.
My self included. Why are they harrasing him ? Why do firemen get special privelleges there plaques are a bunch of BS so they can park illegaly outside the fire house. What other job gives he a parking spot for free at the tax payers expense ?

 

You shouldn't buy the post in the first place !!!!!!

 

I am a big fan of Rabbi Glantz, and supported him when he encountered his initial trouble. But this nonsense he brought on himself. It shows a lack of tact on his part. He should be on his best behavior while he is under the microscope.

I do have a serious concern as to how he is earning his living. He has a family to support and he has suddenly been cut cut off from most of his livlihood.

It would be nice if all those thousands of people who benefitted from his largess in the past should come to his aid now.

 

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