On the East Coast, in the old hoods where people have lived for generations, homeowners won’t stand for new comers coming to park in front of their houses. Their teenage kids might bash your car. It’s changing, but that wasn’t all too uncommon.
I’ve never had that experience. Not in NYC where parking is a free-for-all. Not at the beach, where driveways are rare in many towns. Not in Hoboken or Jersey City where people park where they can. Not in DC. Not even in the small town where I went to college where street parking was common in the downtown where I lived.
I did get my windshield cracked once by sk8r-punks bouncing off cars, but that was about the worst that happened. (Short of having a car stolen outside of DC, but that’s another story.)
Only times that parking spots get “reserved” is after a snowstorm in Boston, where people put chairs and things in the spots to hold them, and woe betide the one who disrespects that. And handicapped spots in front of houses that need them in some towns e.g. Hoboken.
I could see that kind of vandalism happening in some far-flung areas of Brooklyn or Queens, especially if the driver is of the wrong ethnic persuasion, but I can’t say it’s too common either.
