Fury Over Sudden Banishment of Parking By Ronald Drenger When Dan Woldin came home to 80 North Moore Street on Feb. 13, as usual he found a legal parking place in front of his building, between Greenwich and West streets. But the next day, he found a ticket for $55 tucked under his windshield wiper—and so did almost every other car owner on the block. Woldin checked the street signs. The alternate-side parking rules from the day before had been replaced with brand-new No Parking Any Time signs.   Minnie Bundridge, another 80 North Moore resident, found that her car had been towed. It cost her $150 to get it back, with two tickets. "They didn’t tell us they were going to change the signs," she said. Car owners at 80 North Moore Street, one of three 39-story buildings of the Independence Plaza North (IPN) apartment complex, are outraged. Before Sept. 11, both sides of the street had alternate–side parking. Afterward, the south side was restricted to Port Authority and police vehicles, though residents say they parked there at night without consequences. Now residents and their visitors have lost all their spaces, and can’t even stop legally in front of the building. "There are a lot of elderly people, and people with children and babies, who live here," said Bundridge. "We need to park at least long enough to drop stuff off."   "We’re brandishing our paint guns, stickers and blowtorches," said Graham, another IPN resident, who declined to give his last name. "I’ll take down every sign." Judy Duffy, assistant district manager for Community Board 1, said she’s received more calls from IPN residents about the parking flap than about any other post-attack issue. That block was the only one in Tribeca with alternate-side parking, she said. According to Department of Transportation (DOT) spokesman Paul Kurtz, the police asked for no parking on North Moore and Hubert streets because of security concerns at the Citigroup building opposite 80 North Moore St. He said the DOT had heard the residents’ complaints and was reevaluating the new regulations. Tickets written within 24 hours of a parking-sign change are sometimes dismissed by judges, he added. Mary Connolly, a Citigroup spokeswoman, declined to discuss security matters. She and a police department spokeswoman both said they didn’t know whether Citigroup had requested the change in parking rules or whether the police had acted on their own. "If you carry this to its logical conclusion, you could close off any street in Lower Manhattan, because there are so many tall financial buildings," said CB1’s Duffy. She has raised the issue with the DOT in discussions of other post-Sept. 11 transportation problems. "We were talking about reopening West Street and Church Street and I said, ‘We’ve lost parking spaces on North Moore Street—can you please put that at the top of your priority list?’" CB1 will revisit the issue at a meeting March 7 with the DOT commissioner, and IPN residents started a letter-writing campaign to the police commissioner last month. In the meantime, some residents, like Woldin, are paying for parking. Katie Cosco parks in a garage north of the Holland Tunnel, with a 20-minute walk home, because it was the cheapest she could find. Others say they simply can’t afford the steep fees at Manhattan lots. "If they open up a couple of other streets," suggested Woldin, "you would have the security covered and residents would have a place to park."