I’ll side with Trunk. It’s a common hazard on narrow Queens streets. You try getting the city council to limit the end-of-block parking spots to cars…ain’t gonna happen. Cars are not as much a problem if you are in a car, as you can see oncoming traffic through their windows, but vans, pick-ups, SUVs, et al really obstruct views of oncoming traffic.
Without a drawing of the intersection, we don’t know whether the person ‘had’ to write the note, or was out of line. Some intersections are designed so that a car must stop at the stop bar, then ease forward to the edge of the intersection to get the line of sight that they need to turn. If there is traffic, they effectively have to stop twice, once at the bar and again to get line of sight.
Our note fairy may feel that they shouldn’t have to do that and that therefore the truck must be improperly parked. They were wrong about the legal parking distance from the intersection, so they may be wrong about this, too. It could be just the way the intersection is designed.
Anyone interested can ask for a review of the intersection by the Traffic Section of the local Public Works Department. If it’s really a safety problem, they’ll paint the curb red. Eventually.
I’ve posted a message similar in thinking to yours, but a correction here. The first note was prompted by the OP parking *at *the corner.
I’m simply not willing to take the original note writer on faith as being a saint, when he could easily be a whiner. People have asked me to move vehicles for nonsensical reasons all the time.
As for what I’ve driven, yeah, I used 'em for work because I was delivering half-ton lots of crap to places even further out in the sticks than the store was. I still have never had much problem seeing around a F150 in my Neon. I have problems with higher trucks like the 3500, certainly.
Zeriel, I don’t know where the OP is from, but Trunk, from Baltimore, and I, from Queens, have both stated this is a hazard from experience. Many streets in Queens neighborhoods are one land, one way streets with parking on both sides. When large vehicles are on the corner, it is difficult to see around them. Yes, the note-writer might be some prick who won’t be happy until everyone on earth is driving a hybrid Mini Cooper, but I don’t need anyone to prove to me that views can be obstructed. I live it.
Yllaria, they might ‘eventually’ get around to it by you, but that is far from universal. In my many decades as a NYer, I don’t recall seeing a single red curb. Partly because we use yellow to indicate no parking, but even that is rare where drivers know there should be no parking, like hydrants and bus stops.
You don’t know if it’s wrong or not, unless we happen to be talking about you personally, in which case, 'fess up.
An anonymous note is cowardly. There’s no ascription of motivation there, just the observation that a person who chastizes people anonyomously obviously lacks the courage to do so openly. I’m frankly uninterested in the purity of the guy’s motive; I am turned off by his or her means. I do not consider it a leap to contemplate that a person capable of one cowardly act might be capable of another.
Not sure there’s any fear to be found in deciding that, if I determine my property to be in some danger, I would do well to remove it.
I guess you’ll see what you see. To me, it’s a practical outlook that ends a potentially escalating situation, protects my property, and allows me to move on with my life without giving any more thought to a person who otherwise is bothering me by intruding into my world. If that reads as “bunkered and small” to you, I don’t really give a rat’s ass. Since your “sunshine and light” motivation to the note leaver is no more provable to my “escalating frustration and potential further cowardice if I don’t get my own way” motivation, you are hardly in a position to insist that you are right and I am wrong. But enjoy your naivete!
I wouldn’t. I don’t give any credence to anonymous notes either way; they are inherently shabby. I would be offended by one that peevishly insulted me once their “suggestion” wasn’t taken. That would be Note No. 2, the same note that would cause me some concern regarding their further actions. They’ve already left polite behavior behind, and they’re still acting anonymously.
Hilarious! 
I am incorrect to suspect the note taker of escalating cowardice, since he or she is so clearly President of the Local Good Citizen’s Brigade, while you are correct to ascribe vengeance and a lack of caring to the recipient. Allow me to point out that at the time the note is left, you know the same amount about the recipient as the writer – which is to say zippo – so please explain exactly how you determine that the writer is among the angels while the recipient is among the devils.
If the suggestion you are leaving in your note is indeed “innocent” then there is no reason to fear the recipient will react badly to it, and no reason not to leave your contact information. People do not in fact take “incredible offense” to “innocent suggestons.” So as a defense of anonymity, that’s obviously bogus.
But WHY???
That’s what gets me. That’s what the whole thing is about!
The OP wasn’t an asshole for originally parking there.
The note-leaver didn’t accuse him of being an asshole. Just left a friendly note, wrote, “I think it’s illegal”, not “it’s illegal and I’m going to key your car next time!” Just, “I think it’s illegal”.
Then, when the truck was still there, the note-leaver THIS TIME assumed asshole behavior. Didn’t assume “oh, he didn’t get the note”. Didn’t assume, “might have a valid reason for parking there.” Just assumed he was being an asshole.
Ascribing negative motives to the people around us is so detrimental, and people just act like, “I could ascribe good motives or I could ascribe negative motives” and they go to this rotten way of thinking.
Why? Are people afraid that someone is going to “get one over on them”? Is it a “man” thing? Just what consequences does this kind of default distrust help you avoid? Is it something from childhood? Do you WANT to be trusting, but you just can’t do it?
I just don’t get it.
Yes. Because the recipient told us that based on the phrasing “I think it might be illegal. . .”, he took it as a veiled threat and THEREFORE chose to continue to park there.
Trunk, you have clearly never had someone leave you a smarmy “You’re interfering with my personal convenience, therefore you MUST somehow be breaking the law or some contract with someone.” note on your car before. It’s an occupational hazard of owning or driving a truck in the course of your employment.
I could easily turn that around and say you’re not trusting our OP to be able to judge if he’s parking safely.
I don’t have a dog in this fight until I see evidence–I’ve been near hospitals in NYC and Baltimore, and I’ve been near hospitals in 20,000-person towns, and there’s no way to accurately judge who to trust here based on the evidence.
The second note, on the other hand, proves the bad motives of the note-writer in my opinion. OP tries to meet him halfway by being 10-15 feet from the corner and the note-writer gets snarky and rips on his vehicle for no good reason.
Given the spiteful attitude displayed in the second note, it seems very possible to me that the Note Fairy’s real goal is just to mess with somebody who drives a car they don’t approve of, and the visibility issue was just a trumped-up way to accomplish that.
So, presumably, this person just goes around town looking at every vehicle the size of the F150 or bigger, finds a minor inconvenience associated with that vehicle, tries to correct it with a polite note, and then when the note is ignored, re-notes the car with a snarky diatribe about the vehicle the other person is driving.
I see your point now.
That makes a lot more sense than being concerned about the sightlines at a particular intersection.
The “evidence” doesn’t make a difference. The question here isn’t “is my truck blocking the intersection”.
The OP didn’t say, “I kept parking there because I deemed the note writer wrong”.
He say, “I kept parking there because I read the note as a veiled threat”.
This tells you exactly nothing about the note-leaver, whom you have so preciptiously eleveted to sainthood.
So what if it was a target of opportunity? Last time I got a note like that, it ended up being someone who hadn’t realized it was legal to park where I was–I know this, because I had moved my car and the next day someone’s minivan was sitting there. Funny how they never got a note despite being just as big a sightline block as my Tahoe.
Actually, what he said was that he kept parking there, but tried to be more conscious of how close he was to the corner. Perfectly reasonable in my opinion, since mentioning the law IS a veiled threat that the next move is a cop call.
I live in Queens too, and there’s a similar intersection near me where it became enough of an issue that the city put up a short no-parking zone for the first 15 feet or so, so that cross traffic could check for cars before proceeding across.
Well one night, I was that cross traffic but there was a big SUV idling in the no parking zone, with a driver and passenger. So as I am inching past the SUV so that I can check for cars coming across, I guess I had an annoyed look on my face so the dude decides to HIGHBEAM me! And of course, since he was in a big SUV and I was in my tiny WRX, the beams hit me right in the face as I am trying to determine if I can make it safely across. What a dick.
Just to make my own position totally clear, I’d see that sort of asinine self-entitled behavior on the part of another driver and seriously contemplate whether the snowplow on my 3500 would push their car to the nearest dock or junkyard compactor.
It’s a totally different issue between being legally parked, illegally parked, and illegally parked AND a dick about it.
Well I know it does make it more dangerous to turn when a parked truck is obscuring your sight-line. So if it’s possible, I might try to park further from the corner - not because of whether the note-leaver is right or wrong, but just out of courtesy to everyone who uses that street. The thing is, the law doesn’t differentiate between a car and a truck. It might not block people’s view much for a car to be parked 10 ft. from the corner, but a large truck would.
That was you?! I thought you were giving me the finger. My bad. 
Actually, I own a car, not a SUV, so it couldn’t have been me.
The worst part about it is, I’m not even sure if it was illegal for him to be there, because it’s a no parking zone, and if I’m not mistaken, that means he’s actually allowed to idle (“stand”) there.
I gave him the finger as I pulled past him. But then, he decided to drive off after that, and then he saw where I pulled into my driveway! So maybe one day I will get a nice brick through my window.
Stupid Queens.
(Sorry for the hijack.)