Brown College Tour Haunts Me!

fafnir605
Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:48:35 +0000

While visiting Brown for 6 years (two for looking at it and four while visiting my daughter there) we never got a ticket. The reason is that we read the parking signs and parked where it was legal, even if it meant having to walk a few blocks. Providence is a city, just like NY or Philly, and you can’t just park your car wherever you want. Just try parking near NYU! The streets on College Hill are very old and narrow, and that is why many streets allow parking on one side only. It’s not to annoy you. It’s to allow emergency vehicles to get through. I found that on move-in days, the parking restrictions were relaxed enough so that the cars could be unloaded, and then we moved so that someone else could take the spot. When we go there (and we still do every year, because we miss it so much and have our favorite places and restaurants) we stay at the Courtyard and mostly walk up to the campus. I recommend that–nothing is prettier than Benefit Street. Chalk it up to a mistake in urban parking and don’t blame it on the University.