<p>Hi I am from California, just got a new car from my parents and i was wondering if i go to NYU would i be able to have a car? If so how much would it cost to park it?</p>
<p>If you go to NYU you won't want it! No will not need a car in NYC! If you are really into your car choose a different school.</p>
<p>Monthly parking rates here: <a href="http://www.nycgarages.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.nycgarages.com/</a> click on the Monthly button, then By Neighborhood, the select Greenwich Village.</p>
<p>mythmom is right - you don't need a car at NYU or even in NYC - the subway is cheap ($2 a ride for single tickets, cheaper with the cards) and cabs at plentiful and reasonable if several of you are going somewhere. And if you want to get out of the city, there are both commuter trains and Amtrak that will take you pretty much anywhere (you can even take the subway to JFK or Amtrak to Newark International though you need to take a cab or limo to Laguardia.</p>
<p>Leave your car at home...</p>
<p>wow, what a bad gift for someone going to nyc. you're honestly never going to need it, it's going to be more of a pain than anything. i say sell it, and get something else before it depreciates even more.</p>
<p>parking around NYU is going to be 400-600ish per month.</p>
<p>This thread brought the massive LOL****INTASTIC.</p>
<p>i mean a handful of the really rich kids do have cars. The statement that NO NYU STUDENTS have cars is a bit of hyperbole. You definitely do not need a car, but if you have a nice car, don't mind the stress of city driving, and enough money...go for it, you'll impress the ladies.</p>
<p>i am a girl so i do not want to impress the ladies but thanks i think i am going to just bring and leave it at my uncles house if i go to nyu</p>
<p>My brother and his partner live in Manhattan (near the UN building). They park the car on Long Island (at a relative's house). They only have the car because of a death in his partner's family left it to them.</p>
<p>NYC has the best public transportation of any US city. And NYU has van service around campus as well</p>
<p>I find it amazing that people pay more to park their car in NYC than my mortgage payment is.</p>
<p>Sell it. You don't need it. You should have told your parents that they should have just given you whatever the down payment is on the car in cash, which you could put in savings while you think up ideas on how to spend it. But seriously, you don't need a car. There's a reason Donald Trump registers his limos in New Jersey. And that man has enough money to park a thousand limos in Manhattan.</p>
<p>Besides, if you need to go to Newark, you can take NJT, much cheaper than Amtrak.</p>
<p>Or, if you're really trying to maximize your transportation $, take PATH to Newark (instead of NJT from Penn Station), and then take like a shuttle train to the airport. That will probably work out even cheaper still.</p>
<p>In NYC, You won't need the car, ever. It's actually pretty ignorant of you even to think about taking a car to NYC. The parking there is OUTRAGEOUS, and so is the traffic..</p>
<p>The only reason I could think of taking a car to NYC is if you have family out in Long Island and want to visit them occasionally. Even then you will never need the car, thats what the LIRR is for. There is always some sort of transportation in the metropolitan area/5 boroughs, you will never find yourself needing a car. There is the LIRR, MTA, Taxis, NYU transportation..etc. you get the point.</p>
<p>What about a motorcycle?</p>
<p>Thanks everybody for the advice except Jonathan06 since he called my ignorant</p>
<p>I grew up in California so I know life without a car seems a rather bizarre concept. </p>
<p>Another difference: out here, cars don't stop for pedestrians to cross the street if they see you approaching the curb like they do in California.</p>
<p>you should bring your motorcycle bmanbs and have it parked in your dorm room xD</p>
<p>well, smaller, cheaper to fuel, and can you buy specific motorcycle parking on the cheap?</p>