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New York City is different. It recognizes no such credentials but its own. Stamped across the ticket, which PVB now was returning to Factor, were the words, "AN OUT-OF-STATE DISABLED-HANDICAPPED PLATE IS NOT VALID IN NEW YORK CITY." "I got a ticket for using a handicapped spot near Central Park. I fought it and I lost. Another time, I parked in a handicapped spot in Chinatown and got a ticket. "The Big Apple invites tourism, but if you're disabled, maybe they don't mean you," Elmer says.