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.
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.
It's a combination of drainage and allowing some rainwater to flow into the water table. If I recall correctly, areas with limestone aquifers are going to require more permeable space.
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.
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.
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!
"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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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 122 pts · 88d
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 · 57 pts · 88d
That actually sounds like exactly what would happen if the confederacy gains control of New York
Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 88d
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 · 5 pts · 88d
Is this requirement mainly due to drainage or something else? (I’m guessing “just to make things look nicer” isn’t why?)
Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 88d
It's a combination of drainage and allowing some rainwater to flow into the water table. If I recall correctly, areas with limestone aquifers are going to require more permeable space.
Karmanopoly@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 88d
Monster trucks? ....The white house wouldn't have it any other way
MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social · 4 pts · 88d
It's not off scale, it's just ahead of its time.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 88d
Real Cars for real Red Blooded Americans!
NannerBanner@literature.cafe · 2 pts · 87d
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.
mrmisses@lemmy.world · 73 pts · 88d
Fill that pond in, that's 50,000 more dollars of wasted space!
mercano@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 88d
Nah, that’s now a cooling pond for a data center.
Foxfire@pawb.social · 22 pts · 88d
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 88d
Seriously: send it all straight into the Hudson River. Who needs "detention ponds" to "offset flood risk"?
(Also, I know this is AI slop, but what's up with those downright columnar towers in the background? 😭)
MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 88d
They're real
It's called billionaire's row
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 88d
Oh, wow. That's, you know,
gaudy. Thank you for the source. (Edit: Apparently "pencil tower" is the common term. Neat.)
marcos@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 88d
Also, ewww! Exposed water is where mosquitoes brew!
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 88d
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 88d
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 · 16 pts · 88d
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ratQlft_G5c
thisNotMyName@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 88d
The more car friendly a place is, the less desirable to actually be there it is
iocase@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 88d
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 · 7 pts · 88d
"America!"
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 87d
Which they could spend on
a vacation to see trees.parking.titanicx@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 88d
Welcome to Costco. We love you.
Elshender@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 88d
Yeah I know this place is good. I went to law school here.
daannii@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 88d
Probably put a data center in it.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 88d
"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."
xkbx@startrek.website · 4 pts · 88d
Thanks, this makes me want to pogo with a shotgun up my ass and my tootsies on the trigger
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 88d
A CostCo that has converted exclusively to self-checkout machines.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 88d
And the guy at the door doesn't even say "I love you".
volore@scribe.disroot.org · 5 pts · 88d
No, he does, he's just not employed by the store. It's Central Park, remember?
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 88d
Then he shows you how much he loves you.
10thGlyphix@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 88d
Whoever thought of this can be the city planner for hell.
kubica@fedia.io · 8 pts · 88d
There's a vein popping in my neck right now.
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 88d
It’d be *hot enough to cook people in the summer.
trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf · 5 pts · 88d
Dawg don't give them any more ideas
abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 87d
DON'T GIVE THE AMERICAN IDEAS, THOSE FUCKERS WOULD DO THIS TO THEIR OWN CITY IF GIVEN HALF THE CHANCE.
magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 87d
Welcome to Costco. I love you.
madmantis24@lemmy.wtf · 4 pts · 88d
AAAAAAHHHHHHH
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 88d
What a waste! Think of all the data centres that could be put there!
silentjohn@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 88d
This is literally what Grant Park at the north end in Chicago looked like until they built millennium Park
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 88d
You fool... If the president of the USA sees that...
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 88d
Central Parking.
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space · 2 pts · 88d
Boston accent: “Pahk-ya-cah-at-centrah-pahk”
buzz86us@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 86d
TIHI
Lon3star@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 88d
Joni Mitchell has entered the chat...
LuminousLuddite@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 88d
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 88d
What's that?
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 87d
Ok, but when can I call it Central Pork? 🤔😋
kometes@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 88d
Finally. Parking in midtown.