Fill that pond in, that’s 50,000 more dollars of wasted space!
there's a Costco at the other end
Submitted 2 months ago by Karmanopoly@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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mrmisses@lemmy.world 2 months ago
mercano@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nah, that’s now a cooling pond for a data center.
Foxfire@pawb.social 2 months ago
- Build giant parking lot with AI powered variable metered pricing.
- Offer rent pricing for people who live in their cars, so they can finally have a piece of New York too.
- Build giant data center underground with pond cooling, Charge people to swim in the now heated pond as a premium feature.
- Heat from data center melts snow, so the parking spaces are always clear in the winter. Get massive tax rebate for this service.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Seriously: send it all straight into the Hudson River. Who needs “detention ponds” to “offset flood risk”?
MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
They’re real
marcos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Also, ewww! Exposed water is where mosquitoes brew!
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 2 months ago
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
8oow3291d@feddit.dk 2 months 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 lotThey took all the trees
Put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'emthisNotMyName@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The more car friendly a place is, the less desirable to actually be there it is
iocase@lemmy.zip 2 months 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!
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“America!”
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Which they could spend on
a vacation to see trees.parking.
titanicx@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Welcome to Costco. We love you.
Elshender@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yeah I know this place is good. I went to law school here.
daannii@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Probably put a data center in it.
abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
DON’T GIVE THE AMERICAN IDEAS, THOSE FUCKERS WOULD DO THIS TO THEIR OWN CITY IF GIVEN HALF THE CHANCE.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
“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.”
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A CostCo that has converted exclusively to self-checkout machines.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 2 months ago
And the guy at the door doesn’t even say “I love you”.
10thGlyphix@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Whoever thought of this can be the city planner for hell.
kubica@fedia.io 2 months ago
There's a vein popping in my neck right now.
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 2 months ago
It’d be hit enough to cook people in the summer.
magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Welcome to Costco. I love you.
madmantis24@lemmy.wtf 2 months ago
AAAAAAHHHHHHH
trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 2 months ago
Dawg don’t give them any more ideas
silentjohn@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
This is literally what Grant Park at the north end in Chicago looked like until they built millennium Park
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 2 months ago
You fool… If the president of the USA sees that…
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What a waste! Think of all the data centres that could be out there!
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 2 months ago
Boston accent: “Pahk-ya-cah-at-centrah-pahk”
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Central Parking.
buzz86us@lemmy.world 2 months ago
TIHI
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ok, but when can I call it Central Pork? 🤔😋
Lon3star@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Joni Mitchell has entered the chat…
LuminousLuddite@lemmy.world 2 months ago
[deleted]Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What’s that?
kometes@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Finally. Parking in midtown.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
BonsaiBoo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That actually sounds like exactly what would happen if the confederacy gains control of New York
Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Is this requirement mainly due to drainage or something else? (I’m guessing “just to make things look nicer” isn’t why?)
Karmanopoly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Monster trucks? …The white house wouldn’t have it any other way
MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social 2 months ago
It’s not off scale, then - it’s just ahead of its time.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Real Cars for real Red Blooded Americans!
NannerBanner@literature.cafe 2 months 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.