Crosby Street Gets More Hotel Rooms, Less Parking Slots

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When are the folks at city planning going to realize that all of this new development has erased thousands and thousands of parking spaces in the city, but the city prohibits are sharply limits the number of parking that can be built with new buildings. If you think the price of apartments has gone through the roof, take a look at what "condo" parking spaces are going for in the neigborhoods that have lost all the lots. A Tribeca building is selling them at $300-350K. That's $2-3,000 per square foor for asphalt!!

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Who cares about the cost of parking spaces? You don't need a car in Manhattan, and if you're want one you should pay through the nose.

There should be no parking surfaces in NYC.

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The Tribeca building referenced by #1 should be asking a lot more.

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Someone complaining about parking spaces? There's plenty of parking in the stripmallification of America. Move anywhere outside Manhattan and Ikea/WalMart/Home Depot-Death Stars provide all the free parking you can shake a stick at.

Manhattan is introducing congestion pricing, a strong sign that cars are not welcome, that cars are part of the problem, and that building more parking lots, well that's more "What Would Robert Moses Do?" than progressive thinking. A generation from now cars will be banned in Manhattan, and complain all you want but your voice is finally being drown out by common sense. My advice, move to NJ and buy your precious little Hummer, we don't want you here any longer.

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I could really care less about the parking spaces being diminished. Let's get rid of driving all together in Manhattan while we're at it. What does trouble me is that one of the last remaining nice blocks in Manhattan is going to be ruined by tourists. You must be kidding me already with all these new frigging hotels. New hotels = more fanny packs. Resist NYC.

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Tourists (the kind you're complaining about anyway) can't afford $700/night boutique hotels in Soho

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I concur with the 'who gives a shit about reduced parking spaces'

You shouldn't be driving in New York. In the rest of the country, you should have no problem parking, so get used to it or move

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If you live in Manhattan you have as much right to a parking spot as anyone else in America. Screw all you bicycling Bolsheviks!

Congestion pricing is to prevent tourists and day workers with access to mass transit from entering Manhattan for free. It is not to prohibit car ownership for Manhattanites. I may not use a car to go crosstown, but I need it to escape this island occasionally. A third of Manhattan households have cars.

You think Bloomberg is giving up his town car?

Get your facts straight.

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#8, you are insane.

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Sorry, #8, that was ad hominem. I apologize. You feel you need a car to escape the island? Try any of these methods: JFK, LaGuardia, LIRR, Metro-North, etc. If you still need a car but use it as occasionally as you claim to, get a Zipcar membership and you won't need to pay for parking.

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#10
I have a right to own a car. This is America. Since I choose to own it in Manhattan, i am willing to pay the $8 to re-enter the island. End of story.

Do not attempt to curtail my right or privileges for your agenda.

FYI, and you indeed are short of information, I need my car because I use it to go to the country, where there is no mass transit.

If you are so ardent, turn off your computer and modem. Right now. They are using electricity and contributing to global warming. You lived without a computer for most of your life, you can survive without it now.

Or are you only interested in preaching your agenda to others, and not following it for yourself? Go on, sell your TV. It consumes energy.
Get rid of your CDs. They used petrochemicals.

Until you do so, you are a hypocrite for preaching to others and picking on one small part of global warming and pollution, my self-righteous friend.

I know your type: "Do as I say, not as I do."

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According to the permits, the owner is Firmdale Hotels (http://www.firmdale.com/) which is a London based hotel company. Appears to be nice hotels.

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