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Is this marked by signs, or do you need to keep a heckuva big tape measure in your car? :)</p>
<p>Agree with driving. Sunday in New York is a pleasure.</p>
<p>While free parking is available in NYC on Sundays, be sure to look at the signs posted. There are Diplomats only signs, No parking, reserved for city cars. Some spots will have multiple signs and if you are unlucky like me, you can get multiple tickets from parking in a wrong spot if multiple signs were on one pole (which I did not see). Here is a NYT article on confusing parking signs.
[PARKING</a> RULES - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/parking-rules/]PARKING”>parking rules - City Room Blog - The New York Times)
If you would rather park in a parking lot, be sure to visit websites for coupons.
<a href=“http://nyc.bestparking.com/[/url]”>http://nyc.bestparking.com/</a></p>
<p>Repost this question on Saturday, and find out how the snow removal went. NYC is getting 12-18 of snow today, and that can really louse up street parking.</p>
<p>I park in that area every Saturday (DS is in a high school science program at Columbia). I can usually find parking after 10-15 minutes at worst. Also, there is a parking garage on 112th Street between Amsterdam and Broadway that costs $28 (near the Church of St. John the Devine, which is lovely inside if you have time for a look!)</p>
<p>Just wanted to thank you all for your help. It worked perfectly–got down there in just three and a half hours, and it took less than five minutes to find a parking spot at the corner of 123rd and Broadway, a block from MSM. We found a great cheap brunch spot just down the hill (Toast, on Broadway between LaSalle and Tiemann), and after the show we took a walk down Broadway past Columbia and Barnard and had a very nice coffee and muffin at Nussbaum & Wu’s at B’way and 113th. I had never visited that part of Manhattan, and liked it a lot.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, the concert was great, though our school didn’t win its category. We got to see some amazing musicians from MSM jamming after the competition segment.</p>
<p>New York City is one of the easiest cities to find street parking. One of the reasons is that few New Yorkers own cars, so most of the vehicles are taxicabs and cars from NJ, CT or upstate.</p>
<p>Vicariousparent, I have to disagree, but we can argue about that later. LOL. Nightchef, glad things worked out so well. That part of Broadway and the upper West Side has changed alot in recent years. You should come back soon.</p>
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<p>I wish this statement were true! Then I wouldn’t be spending $382 a month for a garage. ;)</p>
<p>I don’t know, I must be lucky…or good at looking for parking spots. I really don’t think NYC is all that bad- especially on weekends- especially if you only need to park for a few hours and don’t mind coming out to feed the meter. In my experience NYC is a lot easier than, say, San Francisco.</p>
<p>I always found it pretty easy to get around NYC by car on Sundays, unless there’s a big parade or presidential visit or something. During the rest of the week I kept the car in a garage that cost more than my first apartment (not in NYC) unless I was heading out of town; little point to driving in the city on a weekday because typically you’d spend more time looking for street parking than it would take to go by subway. That, or pay for off-street parking which in most cases cost more than going by cab. And the people circling my block for 40 minutes looking for street parking or scrambling to find parking on alternate-side street cleaning days (4X/week) sure didn’t think NYC was “one of the easiest cities to find street parking.”</p>
<p>NYC is too big a place to be described in one way. Different neighborhoods are very different, and obviously weekdays and weekends differ.</p>
<p>Morningside Heights on the weekend is one of those neighborhoods where parking is usually available.</p>
<p>D was at Barnard for four years, and I still really miss going in to see her and walk around her neighborhood.</p>
<p>I’m glad you enjoyed the concert and that things worked out well.</p>
<p>This may be a bit too late for the OP but on weekends, one can EASILY find a parking space on Morningside Drive (West of Columbia Law School). I actually had a car for 1.5 years while at grad school @ Columbia. Although I had to move the car from one side of the street to the other every day, at night and on weekends, Morningside Drive is almost free of parked cars. (If you have a car alarm, etc., use it!) By the way, I have lived in NYC for over 50 years (minus college and law school).</p>
<p>Glad you had a good experience, nightchef! Isn’t it a great neighborhood:)</p>
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<p>LOL! Oh I know…it is no fun to move your car…I’ve done that for a few months when I was trying to get by without paying for a garage. People who actually live (or go to work) in NYC should not own a car without being willing to pay for an off-street parking spot. </p>
<p>I was talking strictly about casual visitors (like OP) who need to park for a few hours. The alternate side rules and other no-parking on certain hours regulations can actually help if you know exactly what the hours are on the block you are interested in. We used to go to this awesome Mexican restaurant in midtown (Zarela) and always made a reservation for 7pm. The street was no-parking from 5-7pm. Most evenings we parked on the same block as the restaurant. It was a similar story for trips to Lincoln Center. There are a few streets a few blocks away that become legal for parking right around 7pm.</p>
<p>Yes, if you plan it right, you can find street parking in Manhattan. Also, it helps a lot that Lord Mayor Bloomberg decided to stop charging for metered parking on Sundays after the general populace rose up in protestation.</p>
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<p>As a NY resident, I say please don’t. They don’t work anyway.</p>
<p>Agree with mousegray about car alarms. Just walking by and setting it off could disturb a neighborhood for hours.</p>
<p>In NYC, car alarms can only work for 1 minute else you get a ticket. I think all car alarms in new cars do not run “for hours”, possibly due to the laws in NYC and elsewhere.</p>
<p>The “etc.” that I meant in my post was the “Club”. I had a senior moment and could not remember what it was called. Almost every car parked on my block has a Club.</p>
<p>Steering wheel lock and ignition locks are a must alternative in NYC.</p>
<p>But most important of all, if you like your radio, don’t park overnight on the street in NYC. You will find you radio gone in the AM, and a new glassless window in your car. But as the police say here, cold weather is the best deterrent on street crime.</p>