Downside of Lower Manhattan’s Boom: It’s Too Crowded

Re:Downside of Lower Manhattan’s Boom: It’s Too Crowded by dispose13432 on Friday December 02, 2016 @03:24PM (#13091968)

Why doesn't someone just build a huge commercial parking lot, and rent out parking spots? In a dense city like NY, it may actually work

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Re:Downside of Lower Manhattan’s Boom: It’s Too Crowded by dandelany on Friday December 02, 2016 @04:27PM (#13092430)

There are plenty of these too. But street parking is always free or at least ~an order of magnitude cheaper, which is why people don't want to lose them

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Re:Downside of Lower Manhattan’s Boom: It’s Too Crowded by notJim on Friday December 02, 2016 @07:42PM (#13093527)

Less snarky answer than most people are giving you: street parking is free, while parking garages cost like a significant portion of your monthly rent per month.

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Re:Downside of Lower Manhattan’s Boom: It’s Too Crowded by scott_s on Friday December 02, 2016 @03:35PM (#13092060)

There's parking garages all over the city.

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Re:Downside of Lower Manhattan’s Boom: It’s Too Crowded by rhizome on Friday December 02, 2016 @07:11PM (#13093388)

Incredible idea, I wonder why nobody thought of that.

Step 1: Find a huge open space that can be paved over.

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Re:Downside of Lower Manhattan’s Boom: It’s Too Crowded by rtpg on Friday December 02, 2016 @07:17PM (#13093417)

Japan has giant vertical parking garages with automated lifts. 15 stories, but it only requires a small piece of land. I'm sure you could make some money on that

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