Parking Tips

[SouthernGentNYC]

I'm moving to Chelsea: West 20th and 7th Ave. What are the best spots for on-street parking in the area? The cheapest parking lots? What are the parking rules for the area?

[Ninjahedge]

I'm moving to Chelsea: West 20th and 7th Ave. What are the best spots for on-street parking in the area? The cheapest parking lots? What are the parking rules for the area?

Heh.

Parking in NYC?

Best bet is to find a lot outside of NYC and sell your car when you can.

Otherwise, it is a real PITA to keep doing the "Alternate side of the street" juggle every morning.


Try doing a search of the forums here. I think there are several articles about all this stuff on here..... GL and welcome to NYC!

[SouthernGentNYC]

Thanks! I will be reverse commuting to CT for work--so unfortunately I have to keep the car. :(

[ryan]

Thanks! I will be reverse commuting to CT for work--so unfortunately I have to keep the car. :(

Why don't you buy monthly parking at a CT station and take the train up? It can't possibly be faster to drive through traffic, can it? There's also shuttles to major offices from stations.

[SouthernGentNYC]

Why don't you buy monthly parking at a CT station and take the train up? It can't possibly be faster to drive through traffic, can it? There's also shuttles to major offices from stations.

Much faster to drive....1 hr to drive...2 hr door to door on the train and there is no shuttle from the train to my office...So, I'm stuck with a car either way!

[BPC]

Alternate side street parking will be a battle. It can be done, but it will involve you circling the 'hood every night for an hour or more looking for a spot. If that's how you want so spend your evenings, God bless you. As for paid parking, there are some still "cheap" outdoor lots in the Far West Side around Javitz, but then you have to walk a mile each way every day.

My suggestion. Decide how many blocks you are willing to walk to your garage or lot every morning and every evening. Then get out a map, and walk down every street within your coverage area, and ask for the rates at every garage and every lot you happen to come across. The City maintains a computer database of parking lots and garages and their rates, but its information is inaccurate and out-of-date, so I would not bother with it. This is something you will need to do on foot.

[shocka]

I have to ask whats makes you live in NYC and do the reverse commute?

I can only find advantages for living in CT if you work there.

You pay MUCH LESS in taxes,
Rent is cheaper
You Dont need to pay for parking at "luxury" rentals
About 1 hr more sleep in the morning. And 1 hr more to relax in the evening
Driving to CT in the snow is too stresfull
Cost of living in CT is lower then NYC

The only con i can think of CT is everything closes at 2am, but thats almost every state but NY on the east coast.

maybe im the irrational one

-Shocka

[LeCom]

I just passed my parallel parking on Thursday and got my license. HELL yea.

[SouthernGentNYC]

Please tell me you are kidding....

I have to ask whats makes you live in NYC and do the reverse commute?

I can only find advantages for living in CT if you work there.

You pay MUCH LESS in taxes,
Rent is cheaper
You Dont need to pay for parking at "luxury" rentals
About 1 hr more sleep in the morning. And 1 hr more to relax in the evening
Driving to CT in the snow is too stresfull
Cost of living in CT is lower then NYC

The only con i can think of CT is everything closes at 2am, but thats almost every state but NY on the east coast.

maybe im the irrational one

-Shocka

[MrSpice]

A better way to do it: look up the nearest parking garages on Yellow Pages on the internet that are close to your home and ask about their monthly rates. At many garages in New York they charge less for smaller cars (like Honda Civic). Some have 3 tiers: small car, medium car, large car/SUV

[tmg]

How to park in NYC:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375758518

[MrSpice]

I am going to be living on Upper East Side soon and I am looking to find the cheapest long-term parking I can find. I only use my car on weekends, like most New Yorkers, and need to park my car somewhere. The cheapest rates I found so far were around $275 + city parking tax which comes to about $325 per month including all taxes.

I wonder, is it possible to find parking for even less than that? Are the rates lower in the 100s in Spanish Harlem? Can someone recommend a cheap parking lot that is accessible from the Upper East Side?

I live and work in Manhattan, so I need to park here.

Thanks!

[brianac]

F. Y. I.

Parking Highs

By MICHAEL POLLAK (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/michael_pollak/index.html?inline=nyt-per)
Published: June 15, 2008

“The most expensive garage that I know of is on 60th and Fifth Avenue, across from the Metropolitan Club,” wrote Reuben Sushman, who said in an interview that he knew about the garage from trips past it.

That information corresponded to the findings in the 2008 edition of “Park It! NYC: Complete Guide to Parking Garages,” by Margot Tohn, which listed that garage, at 2 East 60th Street, as the city’s most expensive. On a recent visit by F.Y.I., the posted rate was $67, including tax, for up to 12 hours, and $87 for 24 hours. There was a $10 surcharge for S.U.V.’s.

Another reader mentioned a garage on East 49th Street between Park and Madison. The posted rate was $59, including tax, for more than two hours, plus $10 for “oversized.” Still another mentioned an outdoor lot across 40th Street from Bryant Park, for $50 for 3 to 10 hours, plus $15 for oversize vehicles. A three-hour evening stay at a garage on West 75th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues, near the Beacon Theater, cost a reader $51.

As long as the rates are properly posted, just about any price is legal, including a special price when there is an event nearby. “I made the mistake a few years ago of driving to view the setup of the Thanksgiving (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/t/thanksgiving_day/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) Day Parade on a Wednesday evening,” wrote a Brooklyn reader, who couldn’t remember the exact address of the West Side lot he found. “I had to bribe an attendant $10 just to park in the lot.

“When I went to retrieve my car,” he continued, “I was charged something like $46 for two hours. When I protested, my attention was directed to the sign where it was clearly posted that the evening before and the day of Thanksgiving had rates that were triple, if not quadruple, the normal fee.”

Several readers warned about the “early-bird special” many garages offer to people who drive in before 9 a.m. The signs advertising the special price don’t always mention the special surcharge for “oversize vehicles,” which often include most or all S.U.V.’s.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/nyregion/thecity/15fyi.html?ref=thecity

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