By Gus Saltonstall
Parking in the neighborhood became more expensive this week. Hourly parking meter rates increased across Manhattan on Monday, including on the Upper West Side.
The New York City Department of Transportation hiked its parking-meter rate for both personal and commercial vehicles in Manhattan. The rate increases vary by location, and the Upper West Side saw a significant uptick.
Here’s a breakdown of those increases for non-commercial parking depending on where you live on the Upper West Side.
Zone M2: South of 96th Street and Broadway, Broadway up to 106th Street, and Columbus up to 100th Street
- Former 1st Hour: $4
- New 1st Hour: $5.00
- Former 2nd Hour: $6.75
- New 2nd Hour: $8.25
It is a 25 percent increase for the first hour and roughly a 22% increase for the second hour.
Zone M3: Amsterdam from 96th to 110th Streets, Broadway from 106th to 115th Streets, and Columbus from 104th to 110th Streets
- Former 1st Hour: $2.50
- New 1st Hour: $3.00
- Former 2nd Hour: $4.00
- New 2nd Hour: $5.00
It is a 20 and 25 percent increase respectively for the 1st and 2nd hours.
Zone 3: The majority of Manhattan above 110th Street, outside the above-mentioned M3 Broadway stretch and the 125th Street corridor.
- Former 1st Hour: $1.25
- New 1st Hour: $1.50
- Former 2nd Hour: $2.00
- New 2nd Hour: $2.50
The meter price increases are even heftier in Midtown and Lower Manhattan.
The meter rate hikes are slated soon for the other boroughs as well, beginning with Queens on October 27. The revenue from the parking meter increases will go toward New York City’s general budget.
The Department of Transportation lists the following reasons parking meters are important: they encourage turnover and increase parking availability in high-demand areas, promote shorter parking sessions, and reduce double parking.
You can check out the new parking meter rates on your specific street with the city’s interactive map by clicking this LINK, and scrolling down.
Patch was the first publication to report on the upped parking meter prices on the Upper West Side.
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Inflation is out of control, the effect of Bidenomics. Coupled with the City’s out of control spending on Biden’s migrant crisis. Adams said this will destroy New York City, perhaps we should listen to him.
Sir, this is about parking meters
who in their right mind thinks any president from any party actually can effect…wait for it…parking costs in the cities garages? how broken are you inside to think that’s even remotely possible.
Right, and I’m sure you complained mightly when Bloomy massively increased parking rates.
Reaganomics is the basic cause of inflation, oh and way too much military spending + too many wars.
Gale Brewer opposed free parking on Sundays back then.
Ha! That’s funny. Reagan was 4 decades ago and there have been Dem presidents for almost half the time since then.
I wrote “Reaganomics” not “Reagan. Big difference. Reaganomics survives.
Rates should have doubled for personal vehicles and halved for commercial vehicles.
72RDS:
Why half for commercial?
BTW many folks not aware that there is a lot of e-commerce delivery by gig workers and they use personal vehicles.
And related to Jay’s post, many restaurant owners/managers do drive, bring supplies and park.
You mean the commercial vehicles like Fresh Direct that don’t even pay for parking?
Last week, I saw a FD truck actually being ticketed for standing illegally were they always stand.
I was very surprised.
Shop owners user personal vehicles say to restock flour for pizza. Or bring in their Costco purchases for the restaurant.
Good move. And shouldn’t affect residents, since long-term parking at meters isn’t practical or legal.
All this will do is encourage Jerseyites and Nutmeg staters to park on residential streets, where they can squat for days without paying a cent.
I would love to know why NYC is the only major city in America to give visitors from out of town these absurdly valuable parking rights.
NJ and CT are integral parts of the NYC metro area. Large NJ cities let NY residents park on their street without issue. NJ residents who work on the UWS actually pay most of their state taxes to NY NOT NJ. You just want Manhattan to be the economic center of a 4 state metro area and have it all to yourselves while everyone who doesn’t have the privilege of affording the UWS is exploited for your benefit.
You’ve really unraveled our scheme here — first we turned Manhattan into one of the densest, most economically bustling cities in the nation, now we plan to “exploit” the surrounding suburbanites by making them pay slightly more for hourly parking.
In all seriousness, though, you may have a point. Since you don’t live on the expensive UWS, you can more easily afford to spend the few extra bucks it will now cost for you to drive in and take up valuable street-side space with your private vehicle.
The avenues are residential streets too.
Parking meters are meant for shorter terms. People coming from out of the neighborhood will grumble a little bit but meter rates for a couple hours are still cheaper than garages.
Let’s correct the math here — it isn’t a roughly 20% increase for the main M2 zone. $4 to 5% is a 25% increase, while the less used 2nd hour is 22.2% increase. Basically, the majority of parking is a 25% increase.
I’m not making an editorial statement — just making sure the numbers are correct…and hope the WSR will correct it. (Your numbers for the other zones are incorrect too…should be 20% & 25% for those.)
Thanks, fixed.
Just making it more difficult for the average shnook. It’s the big city Democratic way
News flash: the average New Yorker takes the subway
This will continue to kill tourism, visitors, back to work.
No it won’t. I will however increase the price of a slice of pizza at an independent shop.
The fact that there is ANY free street parking in Manhattan is mind blowing. Why should you get free storage of your private property on public land?
Why should Fresh Direct or Uber cars or….the list goes on.
Compare these new parking prices to the proposed “square footage price” of roadside dining. We are subsidizing the hospitality industry, at same time forfeiting our “essential” roadways.
Residents parking will pay 10.71 times what restaurants will pay for curb space.
Under the permanent pandemic dining program, roadway restaurants on the UWS will pay between $0.77-$1.37 per hour for a parking space size setup (320 sq ft) while residents parking will pay up to $8.25 per hour.
Here’s how we got those numbers: Consent fees for roadway dining in Sector 4 and Sector 3 (the highest tiers that will be used on the UWS) will be $25 and $14 per square foot per year, respectively. Roadway setups will operate 8 months/year, or 244 days/year. That makes their per-hour cost for use of that public space range from 77 cents to $1.37 per hour.
Restaurants get the discounted space, residents get gouged.
Thank you, Gale Brewer. This is on you. You put restaurants ahead of residents in your August 3rd vote to make pandemic outdoor dining permanent.
Excellent work. We need your leadership. I’m not being sarcastic.
New Yorkers are being forced to subsidize “one private industry”, while we simultaneously lose our “essential roadways”. This program comes at our great expense – both monetarily and by way of quality of life. I don’t believe most New Yorkers understand the full realm of what this program “costs” us.
These rates discourage people from regularly driving into Manhattan. I think driving into Manhattan regularly should be discouraged. I’m happy to see this.
Should be noted that many non-rich workers drive in – they live far away because housing too expensive here; they don’t have accessible mass transit; some work night shifts.
Like the night doorman at my aunt’s building – he goes home at 11pm, drives to Rockland County. No mass transit is going to Rockland County late at night….
I’m tired of hearing about doorman who drive to work. Doorman and other building employees have a system for hoarding street parking whereby they switch cars throughout the day. Others don’t have access to those free spots in their private parking scheme. I doubt your doorman pays for parking.
Or certain transit entities are so bad to the point that there’s people who want to vote with their feet. We should let them. The alternative would be taking a significant portion of the UWS out of the historic landmark protections so we can build housing so area workers can afford to live here.