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My friend and I are going on a bit of a road trip following bonnaroo and would like to make a few stops on our way back to Massachusetts. One place we would like to stop is NYC, specifiacly Manhattan. I was wondering if anyone knew a good place to park cheaply and then take the subway to new york. I'm assuming it would be somewhere in new jersey. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
When ever I do the City I park in Hoboken and take the PATH over. I feel like its cheaper and easier to navigate but I may not be the one to anwser that question.
I'm in Jersey, and can assure you, parking in NJ is cheaper, but not by much, b/c those lots get just as chock full as the ones in NYC...I forget the website, maybe you can Google it, but anyway, it tells the cheapest lots on any given day....def worth a websearch...
Post by lordrockinhood on May 30, 2008 12:25:43 GMT -5
Parking is free at the NJTransit Princeton train stop (the one for the city, not the school) ... that's what my friend's parents do every time they come to town
Post by antsmarchn on May 30, 2008 16:45:51 GMT -5
I live about 15-20 minutes from NYC. I typically prefer to drive in and never pay for parking. I am lucky enough to find parking on the street most of the time. As far as parking in NJ, Hoboken will cost almost as much as NYC to park. Try Harrison for the PATH train. Even try secaucus (harmon meadows) with plenty of free parking and take the free shuttle to the NJ Transit train station.
My friend and I are going on a bit of a road trip following bonnaroo and would like to make a few stops on our way back to Massachusetts. One place we would like to stop is NYC, specifiacly Manhattan. I was wondering if anyone knew a good place to park cheaply and then take the subway to new york. I'm assuming it would be somewhere in new jersey. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Howdy...NYC resident and driver here...
Park cheaply in Jersey? You'll kill yourself...you can get cheaper than NYC street parking and there's a ton of it available if you look.
Come over the George Washington Bridge on 95 as you would....upper or lower doesn't matter, just depends on which has the best traffic. Trucks use the upper, so check out 1010 AM for traffic on the 1's (every ten minutes, 10:01, 10:11, for example) or 880 AM on the 8's.
One of the first exits is the Henry Hudson Parkway/9A/West Side Highway...go SOUTH. When you get down to 48th St, make a left--that's the Salvation Army depot block. Plenty of free parking on that street and you're about a 3-4 block crosstown hike from Times Square. Then, you can subway anywhere.
NYC street are like a grid. Numbered and simple.
KEEP IN MIND--ALWAYS CHECK THE SIGNAGE. Parking restrictions/allowances are posted. If an arrow is on the sign, the zone starts at the sign, extends with the arrow until you see the next sign. Keep your bumpers inside the sign posts. Watch for metered parking areas.
If you can't find a spot there, any of those streets in the 40s between 10th and the West Side Highway has parking. Odd numbered streets go west, evens go east; numbered avenues go in descending order west to east; street numbers ascend going north, descend south--and forget looking for free parking east of 9th Avenue. You can find metered parking on 10th and 11th Avenue that end at 7pm, even as high as the 50s, so if you hit it around 5-6pm, meter up until 7 and you're good for all night. Avoid avenue parking below 45th out that far--you'll hit Lincoln Tunnel traffic.
Metered parking is both coin and muni-meter. Again, check the signage--if it's muni-meter, you'll see a blue sign, not a meter post. Find the little blue computer on the block nearby. Some even take credit cards--just feed it for the amount of time you want to part and it will spit out a receipt. Put that on your dash and you're good to go.
If you want to go downtown, just stay on the West Side Highway until you hit Houston. Make that left and just wind on those little streets until you find an open spot. At worst, put it in a garage for $20.
But if it's free you seek, I rarely get disappointed near the Salvation Army.
To go home, just head back up the Henry Hudson Parkway/9A/West Side Highway from whence you came, and take 95 N/Cross Bronx Expressway.
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