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The New York Parking Wars: How Cars Took Over The Curb

Post author By Greg Young
Post date June 23, 2023
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Take a look at a vintage photograph of New York from the 1930s and you’ll see automats, newsies, elevated trains and men in fedoras. What you won’t see — dozens and dozens of automobiles on the curb. In a city with skyrocketing real estate values, why are most city streets still devoted to free car… Read More

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Motor hotels: Manhattan’s most luxurious parking garage “Your car never touched by human hands!”

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date March 19, 2012
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If you don’t already check in to the marvelous Modern Mechanix blog from time to time, then you’re missing out on some retro-futuristic genius. The blog usually highlights visionary drawings from the Modern Mechanics archives. But in the case of one illustration from May 1929, one particular wacky, wondrous dream was actually carried out —… Read More

Tags automobiles, midtown, parking garages, Times Square