Eleven years ago, Charles Mysak snagged a primo parking spot on the corner of Columbus Avenue and 68th Street — and he hasn’t budged since.

The sidewalk bookseller keeps his inventory piled up in the beat up green ’94 Civic, held partially together with duct tape, and feeds the meter $36 a day — in quarters — to hold on to the spot.

Traffic agents paper him with parking tickets for overstaying his welcome, and he’s even been towed once or twice, but the defiant Mysak, 60, continues to hold on to the spot he first claimed during the Clinton administration.

Earning roughly $100 a day after paying the meter, it’s worth it, he said.

“I’ve been here for 11 years,” he said. “Barnes & Noble is now closed. I’m the last resource for books. I’m here from 7 to 7 every day.”

His wife drives him to the Upper West Side each morning a 7:00 am from their Wayne, NJ, home.

They arrive just in time to temporarily move the parked car — the only time it’s moved at all — to make way for the street sweeper.

Formerly a lawyer, the Shakespeare-quoting, stogey-smoking vendor began selling used books on his folding table at the corner after getting convicted of stealing from his clients and disbarred.

By feeding the meter all day, he knows he’s violating section 4-08(h) of the traffic rules, but says those laws are an “infringement of his freedom” and that the city’s enforcement is “Draconian.”

“In the old days, you could tie your horse to this, and no one would get a ticket,” he told The Post. “It’s an outrage so much time is being dedicated to taking money from taxpayers — they’re acting as predators. We are taxed, bullied and harassed.”

When told that city records indicate he has $470 in current tickets, Mysak shrugged.

All parking-enforcement “is a conspiracy against the laity, going back to, you know, medieval times,” he told the blog Jalopnik.

Even the traffic cops seem frustrated by Mysak’s unwillingness to take a hint, with one noting, “Spoke to him last week regarding this,” on a $65 ticket issued May 31.

jeremy.olshan@nypost.com

