there's a Costco at the other end

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• kometes@sh.itjust.works ⁨58⁩ ⁨seconds⁩ ago

  Finally. Parking in midtown.

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• tacosanonymous@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  It’d be hit enough to cook people in the summer.

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• dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨55⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Neat, but this is off scale by a factor of about two thirds. Central Park is roughly half a mile wide which means at typical spacing you should be able to fit 330 parking spaces per row. Let’s call it an even 300 to be extremely charitable with the aisle down the middle and access ways down both sides. I counted 93 or so (it’s a bit muddy) spaces in the closest row that’s not clipped by the edges of the frame.

  So not only did some asshole pave over Central Park, but apparently it’s being exclusively used for monster truck parking.

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  • Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Don’t forget your landscape buffers every so many spaces, to account for all the impermeable surface. I don’t know the requirements for New York, but on average it’s every 10-15 spaces. Granted, they can always file for an exemption, like Wal Mart.

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  • BonsaiBoo@lemmy.world ⁨42⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    That actually sounds like exactly what would happen if the confederacy gains control of New York

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  • Karmanopoly@lemmy.world ⁨30⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Monster trucks? …The white house wouldn’t have it any other way

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• mrmisses@lemmy.world ⁨57⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Fill that pond in, that’s 50,000 more dollars of wasted space!

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  • mercano@lemmy.world ⁨49⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Nah, that’s now a cooling pond for a data center.

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    • Foxfire@pawb.social ⁨33⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      1. Build giant parking lot with AI powered variable metered pricing.
      2. Offer rent pricing for people who live in their cars, so they can finally have a piece of New York too.
      3. Build giant data center underground with pond cooling, Charge people to swim in the now heated pond as a premium feature.
      4. Heat from data center melts snow, so the parking spaces are always clear in the winter. Get massive tax rebate for this service.

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨38⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Seriously: send it all straight into the Hudson River. Who needs “detention ponds” to “offset flood risk”?

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    • MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨24⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      They’re real

      It’s called billionaire’s row

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨35⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Also, ewww! Exposed water is where mosquitoes brew!

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• yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨31⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

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  “That was Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell, a song in which Joni complains that they paved paradise to put up a parking lot, a measure which actually would have alleviated traffic congestion on the outskirts of paradise, something which Joni singularly fails to point out, perhaps because it doesn’t quite fit in with her blinkered view of the world. Nevertheless, nice song.”

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• kubica@fedia.io ⁨46⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  There's a vein popping in my neck right now.

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• ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  A CostCo that has converted exclusively to self-checkout machines.

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  • RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip ⁨54⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    And the guy at the door doesn’t even say “I love you”.

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