The first day the public was invited into the newly renovated Buffalo AKG Art Museum turned sour for many who returned to their parked cars in Delaware Park to find $60 tickets affixed to their vehicles.
The city’s Parking Enforcement Division issued about 100 tickets to cars parked on the grass Thursday, city spokesman Michael DeGeorge said.
“It’s so amazing,” Sandy Crowley said. “I feel like I’m traveling somewhere else in the world and visiting a world-class museum, and here it is in our own backyard.”
But some, like Orchard Park resident Noel Varela, whose vehicle was ticketed, said it was more like several hundred, and many of the people who got a ticket were “irate.”
“I guess I did park there, and I shouldn’t have, but at the same time, it would seem that the appropriate thing would have been for the city maybe to go talk to the people at the Albright Knox and say, ‘You need to put up some signs that this area is not available for parking and ask people to move their cars out of there, instead of ticketing,’” Varela said. “You probably had several hundred tickets. I would guess maybe 200 tickets or more because there were a lot of cars parked over there, and more coming in as I was leaving.”
The AKG, which formally opened to…
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