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Free parking outside the $1,000/mo garage

December 10, 2010 By Stephen Smith

This $1,000+/mo. parking space (without the 18+% parking tax! but one Curbed commenters calls bullshit) on the Upper East Side has been bouncing around the NYC blogosphere, and Curbed commenter low baller just about sums up my thoughts on the matter:

And people howl because street parking is going up to $1 / hour (but of course free after 7pm and mostly free all the time off the avenues)?

So let me get this straight – Upper East Side apartment: $4,000 a month, parking $1,000 a month, parking spot outside said apartment free, or at most $1 an hour.

And oh, how they howl!

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About Stephen Smith

I graduated Spring 2010 from Georgetown undergrad, with an entirely unrelated and highly regrettable major that might have made a little more sense if I actually wanted to become an international trade lawyer, but which alas seems good for little else.

I still do most of the tweeting for Market Urbanism

Stephen had previously written on urbanism at Forbes.com. Articles Profile; Reason Magazine, and Next City

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  1. Rhywun says

    December 11, 2010 at 4:00 am

    The notion of “free on-street parking” is amazingly deeply ingrained, isn’t it? Even appeals to grade-school concepts like “supply” and “demand”, which the subject might easily grasp in other contexts – are most often powerless in its wake.

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