Starting May 19th, alternate-side-of-the-street parking will be suspended in Park Slope until the end of the summer and Park Slopers feel like they’ve won the lottery.

So why is the Department of Transportation giving this gift to Park Slopers? The city is replacing street signage.

Throughout the Slope, this news is being met with cheers and tears. Long regarded as one of the worst neighborhoods in New York City for parking will, for a few brief months, be one of the best.

"My husband will be so thrilled," one friend told me. "He plans his day around moving the car."

Outside of New York City, it is probably hard to understand the joy that this brings Park Slope residents. But parking and moving one’s car from one side of the street to the other is a daily torment for New Yorkers, as is the interminable search for a parking space.

Park Slope drivers drive from one street to another – going in circles – on the hunt for legal parking spaces; a space where they won’t have to move the car in the morning.

"We’ll  be able to leave our car parked when we go to Germany this summer," another friend told me. Usually when they go away they have to leave their car at an expensive garage.

The downside of all this is that there will be no street cleaning this summer. This could be a smelly prospect in the neighborhood next to Prospect Park. Another friend wondered if people all over Brooklyn will leave their cars in Park Slope for the whole summer.

"Park Slope will become a gigantic parking lot for people all over the city." she said.

But let’s not get all negative. Rejoice: there’s no alternate-side-of-the-street parking for an entire summer.

Halleluah.