By Gus Saltonstall

A City Hall spokesperson confirmed to West Side Rag on Tuesday morning that Mayor Eric Adams’ office is “reinstating 175 parking spots on the Upper West Side, where as West Side Rag recently reported, the city Department of Transportation instituted three-hour metered parking earlier this month, transforming many meter-free stretches between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue into pay-to-park territory.”

The Adams administration is choosing to roll back the changes made to parking earlier this month as part of the Smart Curbs Pilot Program from West 73rd to 86th streets adjacent to Columbus Avenue, where spots were metered for the first time and payments now had to be made using the ParkNYC app.

The announcement from the city comes after a “tsunami of complaints

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