Most hotels can arrange for parking, but the cost is high. A friend who is in NY this week was quoted $48 per day.You are correct that you won t need a car to get around while you are there. You didn t say where you are coming from, but a practical and less expensive option would be to leave your car at a suburban commuter rail station. A lot of people around here (upstate NY) drive to Poughkeepsie and then take MetroNorth into the city. The daily parking rate at the Poughkeepsie station is about $12. I suspect that you could work a similar deal at one of the stations service New Jersey Transit.
May I recommend the Sheraton Lincoln Harbor, which is located in Weekhawken, NJ. The on-site parking lot at the hotel, as well as access to both ferries service to NYC.There is also a light rail station with walking distance to the hotel. The Hudson-Bergen Light Rail will take your from Lincoln Harbor south to Hoboken, where a connection to the PATH Train can be made. I hope this infomration is very helpful.Good luck and happy holidaysNative New Yorker
leave the car at home and either fly, take public transportation, or hire a car service to drive you in when you arrive and back home when you leave. Leaving a car overnight, even at your hotel will run you anywhere from $50-$80 PER DAY when left overnight! That much will pay for a car service from PA, NJ, CT. Plus trying to get into and out of the city as you get closer to Christmas is going to be a disaster. Street closures, Gridlock alert days, bad weather, etc. just make this a real bad idea.
Keep the car at home since parking in New York City can easily cost more than your stay. If by evening, you mean going out for a few drinks or dinner and returning home before midnight, you may want to look into hotels in the Long Island City area since you will be able to get there from midtown within a half hour or so. Do not chose this option for late-night bar hopping because the area around there is somewhat desolate and trains run very slowly from midnight on. Check Expedia for a list of these, search under Long Island City. -Here is a guide to public transportation in New York:http://www.associatedcontent.com/article��
I drove to NYC this summer. I would recommend that you make sure that your hotel has parking. Park your car and just leave it there until you leave. It will cost you $40-50 per day to park, this is the average price almost anywhere in Manhattan. You will be able to walk to most places that you want to see, also the subway is cheap and very easy to use.
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Garage parking in NYC is INSANELY expensive, and street parking is non-existant. Just use the subways, you can buy a 24-hour unlimited pass for like $7, and that ll take you wherever you want to go.
Fly do not drive (Im from NYC Orig) Everything is so close and taxis are so cheap. Site see and don t drive,your car or rental could be someones new home. NYC is way to congested to drive. Use a taxi,subway or walk.
plan to spend about 30 dollars a day on parking you can get anywhere in the city with public transport
That all depends on your budget, where you will be staying in NYC (Manhatten is much more expensive then in the other boroughs). Many parts of Queens are safe (Such as Whitestone, Howard Beach, Jamaica Estates), though that last one is directly connected to the hood pretty much (Might want to stay away from Jamaica Estates if you plan to travel the neighborhood you are staying in, it is a small area of safe haven, lol). Just outside of Queens is Long Island, which by car from the city is very short, and L.I. has MANY good neighborhoods you can park your car on the street with the engine running and the doors unlocked without fear, but everything from L.I. needs to be driven to in order to get there, walking isn t much of the option out there. Also, Staten Island has a few good places left, but again suffers from no walking to/from your hotel to decent businesses, attactions, etc. you will always be driving to them, paying for parking, unless you take mass transit such as the trains and bus (Which are actually quite safe to ride on as opposed to popular opinion). As far as Brooklyn and the Bronx, most of it is next to uninhabitable if you are from what you make it seem to be a very rural town potentially, as most of it is extremely urban (I don t mean that racially so don t even try it, Hamilton Beach is a perfect example of the white ghetto in Queens, Astoria is another bad area that is predominantly white as well). What I mean by urban is that it is traveled by very urban people who come from all walks of life, some rich, some poor. If you plan to park, most hotels have parking available, just finding the safest neighborhood within your budget is the key. Find out how much you are willing to spend on the hotel, and that pretty much determines where you are going to park.
DEFINITELY STAY IN HOTEL PENNSYLVANIA! The hotel is located right across the street from Penn Station/ Madison Square Garden which is also very close to Times Square. You can call the concierge (212-376-5000) and they can recommend a parking garage for you. It was built in 1919 by McKim, Mead White, They also designed The NYC Municipal building, original Penn Station, which used to stand in what is now Madison Garden, and many other US national landmarks. The hotel s architecture is the gorgeous Neo-Renaissance style. the Hotel is very affordable. there are breathtaking views of the city from the bedrooms too. Glenn Miller, the famous band leader, wrote the song Pennsylvania 6-5000 about the hotel. Glenn Miller also stayed and preformed in the hotel for his Honeymoon, and numerous other times. Hotel Pennsylvania for the last 90 years has been the worlds most popular hotel after serving over 3 million guests! Hotel Penn is very clean and satisfying, and has recently been renovated. Prices range from $99 and up. They also just created larger rooms that can hold a huge amount of people! The hotel has also just recently one an award for being the greenest hotel in Manhattan. Unfortunately the Hotel is being threatened for demolition so enjoy the hotel while you can. The official Save Hotel Penn website can be found at this URL: http://savethehotelpenn.blogspot.com/ Even if you don t stay in this hotel please go and add the hotel on myspace and a facebook. If you would like to add them in myspace, their URL is http://www.myspace.com/savethehotel. On facebook, just search Save Hotel Pennsylvania. Also, PLEASE VISIT http://savethehotelpenn.blogspot.com/. The official website of the hotel where you can learn more information on staying there is http://www.hotelpenn.com/. PLEASE HELP AND SAVE THE PAST!