Parking at the ballpark (split from Small Sample Size)

[metirish]

Interesting , Gary Cohen was remarking with Ron how the parking at the new Marlins stadium is not at all good....

[Guest themetfairy]

metirish wrote: Interesting , Gary Cohen was remarking with Ron how the parking at the new Marlins stadium is not at all good....

Maybe Gary attended an exhibition event there?

There are a couple of very nice parking lots that are available for pre-purchase if you have premium seats. I imagine that anyone can park there if space permits it. Other than that, there seemed to be a lot of private lots willing to sell expensive parking to people driving around the ballpark, kind of like what it's like near Fenway, but in a sleezier neighborhood.

[nymr83]

Yankee Stadium is worse, you have people placing cones in public parking spaces to "sell" them to drivers.

[Ceetar]

Nymr83 wrote: Yankee Stadium is worse, you have people placing cones in public parking spaces to "sell" them to drivers.

and the lots are like $45.

[Guest themetfairy]

Ceetar wrote: Nymr83 wrote: Yankee Stadium is worse, you have people placing cones in public parking spaces to "sell" them to drivers. and the lots are like $45.

I think the lot was $50 for the Pinstripe Bowl.

MK was the one who observed, "What are people going to do? Drive all this way for the game and then turn around because the parking is obscenely expensive?"

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

I'm of the opinion that anyone who drives to Fenway or Wrigley or MFY Stadium or Citifield or anywhere else well served by public transit deserves to pay the nose for parking. It's the fair cost of the convenience of bringing your own vehicle when it's not necessary to do so. I expect Miami has little to no public transit though.

[Ceetar]

Mets � Willets Point wrote: I'm of the opinion that anyone who drives to Fenway or Wrigley or MFY Stadium or Citifield or anywhere else well served by public transit deserves to pay the nose for parking. It's the fair cost of the convenience of bringing your own vehicle when it's not necessary to do so. I expect Miami has little to no public transit though.

yeah, I don't think that location is mass transit friendly for Miami.

None of those other stadiums are mass transit friendly for me. There is something to being able to hop in your car 5-10 minutes after the game ends and be on your way home. almost always way faster than mass transit.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Yeah, I'd take mass transit to Shea during the seasons where Citi Field was under construction, and parking spaces were therefore reduced, and it was pretty awful. It could take forever to get on a 7 train, or an LIRR train. It would add about an hour (at least) to the trip home. And I'd still have to pay for parking anyway, either in Trenton, or Jersey City, or Manhattan. Driving is a million times (roughly) more convenient. I might feel differently, though, if I lived close to the 7 or along the Port Washington branch of the LIRR.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

I'm not arguing that driving is not convenient just that there should be a cost for that convenience.

[Ceetar]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: if I lived close to the 7 or along the Port Washington branch of the LIRR.

yeah, that's where it's most convenient. I'd heard they'd talked about making the other lines hit Citi Field on game days, but I don't think it happened. When I tried on LI I'd have to transfer at Woodside back east, then at Jamaica. Unless I got really lucky it was 90 minutes or so to Valley Stream, driving would get me there before Mets Extra was over.

It's the same in Jersey, only worse because the schedule from Penn for NJT is horrible. And I can still get home by the end of Mets Extra if I park there. Sometimes even if I park for free in Corona.

It's the same predicament for Yankee Stadium. I could drive there in 15, it'd take me at least 90 minutes via train.

Mets � Willets Point wrote: I'm not arguing that driving is not convenient just that there should be a cost for that convenience.

The Mets could probably raise parking another $5 easily. probably even $10. we'd bitch about it..and then just pay it.

[metirish]

I could take the #6 from Pelham Bay to Grand Central then take the S over to Times Square to get the 7 to take me to Citi Field......but that's a trip.....I could drive over the Whitestone and be at the stadium in 15/20 minutes....parking at Citi is reasonable I think.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Ceetar wrote: It's the same predicament for Yankee Stadium. I could drive there in 15, it'd take me at least 90 minutes via train.

See, so $50 is just $0.67 for every minute saved.

[Benjamin Grimm]

How much does it cost to park at Citi Field? I haven't paid for parking there since 2000 when I was coming from Connecticut and got there too late to find free parking under the Northern Blvd. overpass. I was routed to a spot so deep inside the parking lot that it took me two hours to get out of the lot. That was very aggravating. In earlier years, when I'd park in the Shea lot I'd arrive early enough to get a spot facing the gate, make a quick right turn onto Northern Blvd. towards Main Street in Flushing and then head south on Main St. to the LIE. I lived in Smithtown then and I'd usually be home in about 45 minutes after the game ended.

Those were the days.

[HahnSolo]

$19 in the lot last year, not sure about this year.

If I'm with the family, I bite the bullet and park in the lot. If I'm alone or with friends, I look for a spot over behind the Holiday Inn in that neighborhood.

[Ceetar]

HahnSolo wrote: $19 in the lot last year, not sure about this year. If I'm with the family, I bite the bullet and park in the lot. If I'm alone or with friends, I look for a spot over behind the Holiday Inn in that neighborhood.

$20 this year.

yeah, that's where I usually park. The problem is parking there isn't easy on weekends or if you're too late on weekdays because lots of people park there and people get home from work.

Can be a pain to get to the GCP west from there though, usually end up dealing with Astoria blvd and traffic lights tothe bridge. or making the illegal left off roosevelt to the entrance ramp.

in the lot is easy, and oddly enough if you go in via roosevelt avenue at like 7 you end up parking ~Shea.

[Ceetar]

Mets � Willets Point wrote: Ceetar wrote: It's the same predicament for Yankee Stadium. I could drive there in 15, it'd take me at least 90 minutes via train. See, so $50 is just $0.67 for every minute saved.

All this to be punished with a Yankees game.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I think, if I had to, I'd pay $50 to not visit the House of Evil.

[Frayed Knot]

themetfairy wrote: "What are people going to do? Drive all this way for the game and then turn around because the parking is obscenely expensive?"

At $50 bucks, I would turn around and go home.

[metirish]

I remember going to MFYs a few years ago(the Santana debacle) , we parked in a private lot for $35 but were so far from the stadium it took a half hour to walk to the gate.

[nymr83]

I think the formerly free parking under the overpass that was alluded to above is now a pay lot, no?

Parking can be a pain at citi but if you get there early and grab a spot near the exit you'll be flying home. The 7 trains after the game are a zoo, worse than Times Square at rush hour. Be prepared to shove your way through a crowd and onto a packed train or wait for 2 or 3 of them to pass by.

[Ceetar]

Nymr83 wrote: I think the formerly free parking under the overpass that was alluded to above is now a pay lot, no?

The _lot_ is a pay lot, but the spots actually under Northern blvd are still free. They stopped letting you park on the GCP->NB ramp grass in like 2005.

There used to be some spots near college point blvd that freed up after 5 just over the bridge, but I haven't tried over there in ages. cutting through the junkyards is a nice shortcut to the GCP east if you go that way. Going the otherway (or to the whitestone expressway) you're best exit is the one walking towards the GCP from the Rotunda. empties out right there if you're in the back lot.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Yeah, I parked for free under the overpass just a couple of weeks ago.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

metirish wrote: I could take the #6 from Pelham Bay to Grand Central then take the S over to Times Square to get the 7 to take me to Citi Field......but that's a trip.....I could drive over the Whitestone and be at the stadium in 15/20 minutes....parking at Citi is reasonable I think.

Q44 from Castle Hill Ave to the 7 (the non-busy end), then one stop. 40-50 minutes.

Even when we take the car, I'm parking in Corona and walking from the neighborhood; I'm not paying $20 for reducing a 12-minute walk from parking to a 5-minute one.

[HahnSolo]

I used to take the 44 from Hugh Grant Circle (Parkchester) out to Shea as a youngster. When we got a little older, we'd walk from Main Street rather than pay for the 1-stop train ride.

[Benjamin Grimm]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Even when we take the car, I'm parking in Corona and walking from the neighborhood.

Where do you park in Corona? Is it street parking, or is there a lot or garage that you know of?

[Centerfield]

We park for cheap in Flushing. Hop the train one stop to Citi, then hop it back leaving. No crowds either way since no one is approaching Citi from the Flushing side.

Last couple of years though, because attendance was so low, we've just been driving to the ballpark.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Where do you park in Flushing? At a garage or lot near the 7 train? When I went to the game on April 7 there were very few spots left under the overpass and it occurred to me that I didn't have a fallback plan other than the Citi Field lot.

[Ceetar]

Street parking. one way streets. I usually park by the X's depending where I'm headed (east or west on the GCP) Can usually park along 114th too.

[G-Fafif]

Nymr83 wrote: The 7 trains after the game are a zoo, worse than Times Square at rush hour. Be prepared to shove your way through a crowd and onto a packed train or wait for 2 or 3 of them to pass by.

The 7 Super Express has made the above scenario largely a thing of the past on weeknights and weekends. If your destination is Manhattan (or Woodside for the LIRR, in my case usually), it's a breeze.

[Centerfield]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Where do you park in Flushing? At a garage or lot near the 7 train? When I went to the game on April 7 there were very few spots left under the overpass and it occurred to me that I didn't have a fallback plan other than the Citi Field lot.

There was a lot near Roosevelt that was very cheap. It was like $9 unlimited. It closed down though. Now we look for places at one of the hotels. It's more, but still pretty affordable. They're all a block or two from the Main Street stop of the 7.