But Central Harlem residents say the combination of a 500-student school and the ambulance station will bring constant traffic and parking woes.

Although the bill might ease the headaches of drivers like Mr. Victor, it would not allay the parking woes of crowded municipalities like Jersey City, where more than 70,000 cars enter the city limits each day and which processes 30,000 parking violations a month.

Ashore it's another matter, with peak-hour traffic jams and midtown parking woes.

Down the street, another resident, Mohammed Saffie, said that while the club sometimes causes parking difficulties on Friday nights, his neighbors' ire probably had more to do with prejudice than parking woes.

Mayor Beverley Sved said she hopes the project will relieve some of the village's parking woes but also quell residents' concerns that a multilevel garage will hurt the village's character and traffic flow.

Beverly Sved, who became mayor in March, asked village officials to postpone plans to approve and build the 415-space garage until the her administration can take a fresh look at the proposed project, Scarsdale's parking woes and alternatives for solving them.

Ms. Fisher said, however, she doesn't believe that the proposed 415-space structure is necessarily the answer to the area's parking woes.

Lori Van Overloop, owner of Nature's Market Place, a health foods store, said a video store and a camera store went out of business because of parking woes.

Tarrytown is not alone in trying to address parking woes.

At the same time, the institutions strip away things that can be frustrating to students - the commute, parking woes, long lines at registration, inconvenient class times.