{"id":1437,"date":"2006-08-21T09:44:39","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T17:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/08\/twenty-eight_dollars_an_hour.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T18:35:06","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T23:35:06","slug":"twentyeight_dol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/twentyeight_dol.html","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-Eight Dollars An Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to NYCgarages.com, the most expensive hour of parking in New York is $28<\/a>:<\/p>\n

At Fifth Ave. and 60th St. near Central Park, a lot with 17 parking spots run by Imperial 785 Garage Corp. charges $28 for up to an hour.<\/p>\n

Yet, only a few blocks east, on 60th St. between Second and Third Aves., the 60th Storage Corp. charges $7 for a half hour.<\/p>\n

The Imperial lot has been dubbed the city’s most expensive parking lot by www.NYCgarages.com, a Web site launched earlier this year that helps drivers compare prices.<\/p>\n

“It’s a total ripoff,” Joanne Torrellas, 30, said after being charged $28 for the half hour she left her car in the lot to bring her child to a doctor. “It’s so expensive,” the upper East Side mom complained.<\/p>\n

Electrician Rafael Burgos, 33, said he drove down from the Bronx and parked in the Imperial lot because he needed to find a spot close to a customer at 59th St. and Madison Ave. “I’ve got to park somewhere, and this is the only place around here,” he said. “I didn’t see the price until I was already inside. It’s ridiculous. I’m going to have to pay half what I earn on this job on parking.”<\/p>\n

When The News stopped by the Imperial lot, an attendant tried to stop a photographer from taking pictures of the price list, posted halfway down the one-way entrance ramp.<\/p>\n

“I know it’s very expensive, but you pay for the location,” said the attendant, who declined to give his name.<\/p>\n

The founder of NYCgarages.com, Benjamin Sann, said some parking companies go to great lengths to conceal their actual prices, even though they are required by law to display their rates.<\/p>\n

“They try to intimidate me, stop me from taking down the prices,” Sann said. “I’ve had attendants close the gates so I couldn’t see the boards. I had one threaten me with a baseball bat. They try to hide the prices so you can’t see them until you drive in, when it’s very difficult to turn around and leave.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to NYCgarages.com, the most expensive hour of parking in New York is $28: At Fifth Ave. and 60th St. near Central Park, a lot with 17 parking spots run by Imperial 785 Garage Corp. charges $28 for up to an hour. Yet, only a few blocks east, on 60th St. between Second and Third […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer_issues","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}