Time Warner Center Parking Fees Confuse Outsiders

Friday, January 20, 2006, by Jeremy

We've mentioned before how certain food prices at the Time Warner Center might confuse people in the Rest of America. Now, comes news from Bloomberg, via the blog Set Speed, that the monthly price of parking your car at the Columbus Circle mall ($550 to $600) is about what it'll cost you to rent a nice apartment in honest, hard-working heartland cities like Greensboro, N.C., Austin, Texas, and Cincinnati, Ohio. Still, this may just teach you to give up that car (those cars?) and cozy up more to public transit like the rest of us. Gilded MetroCards anybody?
· The rising cost of parking in NYC [SetSpeed]
· Masa: A Few Delectable Square Feet for Your Soul [Curbed]

UPDATE: Excerpt from the Bloomberg story: "Keeping a car at Time Warner Center across from Central Park runs about $550 to $600 a month. One-bedroom rentals are available for $500 to $600 in Greensboro, North Carolina; Austin, Texas; Cincinnati; and Oklahoma City, according to Internet site Rent.net."

Filed under City Life, Manhattan: Upper West Side/Columbus Circle, Real Estate Miscellany,

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Comments (11 extant)

Um, Austin isn't the "heartland," and it'll cost you a hell of a lot more than $600 to rent a "nice" apartment there.

By C Miller at January 20, 2006 1:11 PM

re: heartland: for the readers of new yorker and its' famous cover art, austin may as well be austinistan...hahahah..

on a more serious note: on the subject of $600 apartments:

http://austin.craigslist.org/apa/126982142.html
http://austin.craigslist.org/apa/126976062.html
http://austin.craigslist.org/apa/126972308.html
http://austin.craigslist.org/apa/126953968.html

the defense rests its' case.

By ltjbukem at January 20, 2006 1:56 PM

Austin isn't New York, that's all that matters. And it's because of Texas and the rest of the heartland that W is still president. Please don't ever bother visiting here, or nonetheless comment on our city in general.

By Texas Sucks at January 20, 2006 7:27 PM

c miller, you can easily check the austin craiglist and find *many* apartment rentals for less than $600 and in several cases, they're for 2 bedrooms.

if you've ever seen the famous new yorker cartoon, austin might as well be austinistan.

By ltjbukem at January 20, 2006 10:20 PM

You know, I thought I was extremely elitist, exclusionary, and haughty, but even I am really turned off by Texas Sucks' comments.

By John at January 21, 2006 9:46 AM

Hey moron: Yes, hate on Texas, but not on Austin, which did not go for Bush, fucking idiot.

By Morons at January 21, 2006 12:49 PM

This site appears to be overrun with folks who, much like the oft-maligned citizens of Texas, think that where they live is the culmination of western civilization. Their condescention towards anything non-NYC or non-TX is ridiculous. NYC is fine and all, but it is hardly the only suitable place to live. So, Texas Sucks, it is fairly clear that you are apparently one of the many, many people in our fair land who is highly opinionated but poorly informed. Go visit Austin. I think you will be pleasantly surprised. Or not, if you judge every locale by the standards set by NYC. Pretty much every other city in America doesn't offer as much as consistently as New York. Furthermore, as Morons says, Austin is a deeply blue patch in an otherwise bright red state.

As for the nice $600 apartment in Austin - go check out a $600 apartment in Austin and tell me that it is nice. Unless you know what Austin real estate market is like, don't point to craigslist as some sort of definitive resource for the rental market. The cost of living in Austin is the highest in the state, if not the entire southwest.

By C Miller at January 21, 2006 4:24 PM

I apologize if I let my deep hatred of W lead to a generalization of Texans. I've visited Houston in the past and have nothing but good things to say about people there. And in response to John's posting, I'm sure you've gotten annoyed in the past with the number of tourists who come to NYC throughout the year and are seemingly in every neighborhood, every minute of every day and in a way are disrespecting our city.

By Maybe Texas is OK aka Texas Sucks at January 23, 2006 10:26 PM

I just got back from Austin. It's a great fucking city. It isn't New York, but for the price, it's got a lot going for it. If you're into live music, drinking at bars, barbeque, tex-mex, and/or motorcycles, Austin is in many ways is vastly superior to New York, and their local economy isn't half bad. If you have other priorities, maybe not. I love this city and I love New Yorkers, but I think New Yorkers have a more overblown view of their city than any other American city.

I just moved here from the Midwest. In some towns, you can buy a 5 bedroom house for a mortgage payment of around $600/month. Good luck finding a job, though. I might move back if I can find enough work I can do remotely or with only occasional on-site visits, though. With the money I save on housing, I could easily afford a long weekend trip to just about anywhere about once a month (given I have friends with whom I can crash in most places I like to visit)...

By Scott T. at January 25, 2006 11:15 PM

10.

Also, this thread reminds me a Voice article I read awhile ago, suggesting gifts you might buy for your "niece from Texas who is an emerging liberal" or some such thing. They recommended buying stuff from Whole Foods to blow her Texan mind. Nevermind Whole Foods is FROM Texas and their Austin store blows any of the NYC stores out of the water in shear ostentation.

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