GREENWICH — The town is investigating after a resident complained that a town employee in the ticket booth at Greenwich Point Park improperly charged a visitor cash for an unnecessary parking pass — an allegation that caught attention on social media.
David Mickelson told Greenwich Time that he gave his niece and her children day passes that he had to go to the beach Sunday, along with a $40 parking pass that is required for nonresidents at Greenwich Point.
“My niece lives in Stamford and she wanted to take her kids to the beach,” Mickelson said. “We gave her the tickets and an unused parking pass. … The man in the ticket booth said that the parking pass had already been used but he happened to have another one there that he could give her for $40. She said she only had $25 and offered to go to an ATM, but he said, ‘That’s all right, $25 will work.’”
According to Mickelson, his niece then gave the man the $25 in cash and he let her in.
“She told me this later and I told her that was crazy because the parking pass was perfectly good,” said Mickelson, a resident of Banksville who lives on the Greenwich/Stamford border.
On Thursday, Mickelson’s niece, who asked not to be named, confirmed his account of what happened. She said she went to Greenwich Point to celebrate a friend’s birthday party with her two kids, a car full of food and…
