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there's a Costco at the other end

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Karmanopoly@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • BonsaiBoo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Is this requirement mainly due to drainage or something else? (I’m guessing “just to make things look nicer” isn’t why?)

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    • Karmanopoly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s not off scale, then - it’s just ahead of its time.

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    • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Real Cars for real Red Blooded Americans!

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    • NannerBanner@literature.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thanks for confirming my initial thought. I had figured central park was much wider than what my brain was telling me from the picture and the car/building contrast.

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  • mrmisses@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • mercano@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • Foxfire@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They’re real

        It’s called billionaire’s row

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Also, ewww! Exposed water is where mosquitoes brew!

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  • Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

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  • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    central park is 843 acres, and an acre can fit about 130 parking stalls. That means 109590 parking spots, lets say they rent them out for about 50$ per day (I paid that much when I had to park in Manhattan once). that would make 5.5 million $ per day or about 2 billion per year.

    According to wikipedia (the study linked is now offline), Central park has a revenue of about 656 million $.

    If we paved all central park and make it into a parking lot that extra 1.4B$ could be redistributed to everyone in Manhattan, everyone would get a 1204$ cheque every year.

    Which they could spend on a vacation to see trees.

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    • 8oow3291d@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Which they could spend on a vacation to see trees.

      From www.youtube.com/watch?v=ratQlft_G5c

      They paved paradise
      And put up a parking lot

      They took all the trees
      Put 'em in a tree museum
      And they charged the people
      A dollar and a half just to see 'em

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    • thisNotMyName@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The more car friendly a place is, the less desirable to actually be there it is

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    • iocase@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How what if we built a parkade? We could charge $40 per stall but have 10 or 20 times more cars in the same land!

      The sheer volume of cars would saturate the bridges and tunnels in and out of Manhattan, meaning that people would drive just to park, just to drive and queue to leave. The useless mindless illogical economic activity we would be creating would spike GDP so high! It would look great for the economy!

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    • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “America!”

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    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Which they could spend on a vacation to see trees. parking.

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  • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Welcome to Costco. We love you.

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    • Elshender@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah I know this place is good. I went to law school here.

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  • daannii@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Probably put a data center in it.

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  • abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    DON’T GIVE THE AMERICAN IDEAS, THOSE FUCKERS WOULD DO THIS TO THEIR OWN CITY IF GIVEN HALF THE CHANCE.

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  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

    “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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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • 10thGlyphix@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Whoever thought of this can be the city planner for hell.

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  • kubica@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • tacosanonymous@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Welcome to Costco. I love you.

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  • madmantis24@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    AAAAAAHHHHHHH

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  • trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Dawg don’t give them any more ideas

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  • silentjohn@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is literally what Grant Park at the north end in Chicago looked like until they built millennium Park

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  • lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You fool… If the president of the USA sees that…

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What a waste! Think of all the data centres that could be out there!

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  • FreddiesLantern@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Boston accent: “Pahk-ya-cah-at-centrah-pahk”

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  • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Central Parking.

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  • buzz86us@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    TIHI

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ok, but when can I call it Central Pork? 🤔😋

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  • Lon3star@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Joni Mitchell has entered the chat…

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  • LuminousLuddite@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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    • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What’s that?

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  • kometes@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Finally. Parking in midtown.

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