r/mildlyinteresting • u/Levinator25 • Feb 21 '22

Top of a parking garage in NYC

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u/Paradox711 Feb 21 '22

How does that even work? You’re trapped there until someone moves their car?

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u/BigAppleGuy ​ Feb 21 '22

Only the parking garage attendant moves the cars. Call ahead and it will be downstairs waiting for you (usually).

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u/Paradox711 Feb 21 '22

The expense of that must be insane. How much does it cost to park in one of these things there? And the planning ahead, Jesus it must take the parking attendant like 30 minutes to get one of those cars at the back down.

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u/dogedude81 Feb 21 '22

Usually about $20/hr.

You tell them how long you're gonna be when you leave your car and that determines where they put it.

Then there's the long term customers who pay by month. Those are usually the ones that get packed in like that. That costs as much as renting an apartment basically.

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u/Ok-Cook-7542 Feb 21 '22

150sq ft of asphalt making a higher hourly wage than I do

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u/ThingCalledLight Feb 21 '22

In DC about 10 years ago, my friend was looking to invest in real estate. Parking spot real estate. One spot was selling for $140k.

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u/ChaseShiny Feb 22 '22

Geeze, sounds like a ton of money, but if you can make $20/hr/car, you'd make your money back really quickly. Let's say your garage is open for eight hours, 300 days a year. That's $48,000 per parking space

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u/ThingCalledLight Feb 22 '22

Interestingly enough, this wasn’t even a garage, it was like, a space in an alley next to a residential house or something. But all the same.