A picture of unfairness

Take a good look at the Daily News logo. It’s an old-fashioned camera, honoring the you-are-there images captured by talented photographers and video makers relentless in getting the story. Their eagle eyes are why, for the better part of our 99 years, we’ve proudly been known as “New York’s picture newspaper.”

But damned if the few dozen photographers who work for us and our colleagues and competitors can get to the scene when news breaks, when clearly marked street parking zones the city Department of Transportation reserves exclusively for members of the press bearing special NYP license plates instead end up occupied, day after day, by motley vehicles.

Some of the worst offenders are city government cars and private vehicles bearing all manner of quasi-official placards. Parking enforcement agents and the NYPD pay them no mind. Heck, sometimes police vehicles hog NYP spots, adding an imaginary “d.”

Corrals at parades and protests, keeping photogs far from the action and at times fostering dangerous working conditions, add insult to injury.

Enough already. Civil liberties lawyer Norman Siegel last month wrote Mayor de Blasio, Police Commissioner Jimmy O’Neill and Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg on behalf of the New York Press Photographers Association, with a plea to keep the parking zones clear and events accessible.

We’re waiting — not for any special perk, just the bare necessities of getting the chroniclers of our sprawling city to where the action is, so they can keep showing all of you what’s going on.