This from Eliot, an OTBKB reader:

A number of things are making this a bad week for parking in the
neighborhood.  Tomorrow the City will be repaving 5th Street from 6th
Avenue to Prospect Park West starting at 6 AM (might go further west
than that but I didn’t feel like walking around in the rain to check it
out). 

If that’s not bad enough, Ugly Betty will be doing a shoot on
7th Avenue from 1st Street to Union Street which will eliminate parking
on both sides of that stretch of 7th Avenue starting at 7 PM on
Thursday through Friday.  The signs just say "all day" Friday, so I
can’t tell if the shoot ends at 6 PM or at Midnight.  President Street
has been dug up as well, so it could also be in for some repaving this
week.  If your car isn’t garaged, it might just be the right time to
start that cross country trip you’ve always thought about.