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For a traffic-packed city like Manhattan where you are better off taking the subway or even just walking to your destination if possible instead of using your car, there seems to be a high demand for parking places.
- Priceless: Philadelphia Parking Authority Employees Busted At No Stopping Zone
If there's one thing worse than spending valuable time looking for a parking spot in a bustling city, it is receiving a ticket after you park – not that some people don't deserve it when they take handicapped places or block roads, sidewalks...
- Beijing To Restrict Car Usage, Chinese Automakers Anticipate Market Downturn
Beijing is a city in crisis. It is, more or less, a microcosm of the world at large: smog and traffic congestion are choking China’s capital. This year, 4.7 million cars were sold in Beijing alone; nearly twice the number sold just five years...
- Parking Prices Study: London And Sydney Top The List
If you happen to own a car and for any reason decide to rent a parking space in the centre of London or Sydney, rising gas prices will be the least of your worries. According to a recent study performed by Colliers International, a property consultancy,...
- New York Subway To Be Wired For Cellphone Use
Despite security worries concerning the use of mobile phone signals in subways, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced that all 277 underground stations in the New York subway system would be wired for cellphone use by 2013. However, for...
- Quiz: Would You Pay $200,000 For A Parking Space?
Here’s a question for all you big city dwellers out there: How far would you go for a parking space? Some people in cities such as NYC, Chicago and Boston have gone as far as paying over $200,000 for a deeded parking space. Since property values...
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This New York Parking Spot is Listed for Sale at US$1 Million!
For a traffic-packed city like Manhattan where you are better off taking the subway or even just walking to your destination if possible instead of using your car, there seems to be a high demand for parking places.
In fact, so high is the demand, that the city's first million dollar parking space is a reality in Greenwich Village, a residential neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City. According to the New York Post, that is six times more than the national-average price of a single-family home!
Read more »- Priceless: Philadelphia Parking Authority Employees Busted At No Stopping Zone
If there's one thing worse than spending valuable time looking for a parking spot in a bustling city, it is receiving a ticket after you park – not that some people don't deserve it when they take handicapped places or block roads, sidewalks...
- Beijing To Restrict Car Usage, Chinese Automakers Anticipate Market Downturn
Beijing is a city in crisis. It is, more or less, a microcosm of the world at large: smog and traffic congestion are choking China’s capital. This year, 4.7 million cars were sold in Beijing alone; nearly twice the number sold just five years...
- Parking Prices Study: London And Sydney Top The List
If you happen to own a car and for any reason decide to rent a parking space in the centre of London or Sydney, rising gas prices will be the least of your worries. According to a recent study performed by Colliers International, a property consultancy,...
- New York Subway To Be Wired For Cellphone Use
Despite security worries concerning the use of mobile phone signals in subways, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced that all 277 underground stations in the New York subway system would be wired for cellphone use by 2013. However, for...
- Quiz: Would You Pay $200,000 For A Parking Space?
Here’s a question for all you big city dwellers out there: How far would you go for a parking space? Some people in cities such as NYC, Chicago and Boston have gone as far as paying over $200,000 for a deeded parking space. Since property values...