And now, a non-Valentine’s Day story to keep your feet on the ground — and your car in the right place. Because Bushwick is getting lots of parking tickets.

In 2017, a total of 85,000 parking tickets were issued in the neighborhood, representing a 30-percent spike from 2016. Almost 10,000 were issued in October alone, making it the highest month on record for parking tickets over two and a half years.  

Has Bushwick really gotten that much worse at parking or have our traffic cops just become a little too overzealous in the past year? It’s hard to say because the police department hadn’t talked to us by the time of this publication.