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In NYC, double parking is so common you pretty much expect to come across a vehicle double parked if you're traveling down the right lane for a few blocks. Usually it's a large delivery truck or even a bus - those you can see for a block ahead and plan accordingly. There's plenty of times it will be a car however.
As the cars parked along the curb are usually not going anywhere for the next 8-24 hours, you're not really blocking someone in as much as you are blocking a lane of traffic.
Worst offenders used to be at airports. You'd easily get people even triple parking in order to drop off passengers - which causes not just a huge backup with 2 out of the 3 travel lanes blocked, but now those people parked for 5 minutes at the curb have to navigate through two lanes of parked cars in order to attempt to get out. Since security crack downs though, they don't let anyone double park much (aside from buses just trying to run their route) and you don't get this extreme mess as frequently.
Taking up 2 parking spaces is a completely separate issue bc in that case you're not blocking a lane of traffic or blocking someone in their parking spot - you're just taking up an additional spot.
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