NYC garages are legally required to offer bike parking. This one charges $250/month for it.
Found this posted inside a Midtown garage yesterday. Bicycle parking: capacity 6.
Flat rate $22.96 for any 10 hours, monthly $229.62 — which works out to exactly
$25/day and $250/month once you add the 8.875% tax.
Some context I've been digging into:
- It's mandatory. NYC Admin Code requires any licensed garage with 51+
vehicle spaces to provide bike parking — one bike space per ten car spaces. They also
have to file their bike rates with the city and post them publicly, which is why this
sign exists.
- Nobody can tell you which ones have room. I called a major operator's corporate line
and asked. The answer was "go to the garage and check."
- The staff don't know either. When I went to this garage, the attendant told me they
don't have bike parking. He was standing about ten feet from this sign.
Has anyone here actually parked in a garage? Did you know it was an option?
And generally — where do you park during the workday, and has your bike been taken?
**Disclosure: I'm looking into building something here. Not selling anything, just trying
to work out whether this is a real problem or only mine. Happy to report back what I find.