Fill that pond in, that's 50,000 more dollars of wasted space!
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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.
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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.
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"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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There's a vein popping in my neck right now.
Whoever thought of this can be the city planner for hell.
A CostCo that has converted exclusively to self-checkout machines.
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Probably put a data center in it.
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What a waste! Think of all the data centres that could be put there!
AAAAAAHHHHHHH
It’d be *hot enough to cook people in the summer.
This is literally what Grant Park at the north end in Chicago looked like until they built millennium Park
You fool... If the president of the USA sees that...
Boston accent: “Pahk-ya-cah-at-centrah-pahk”
Central Parking.
DON'T GIVE THE AMERICAN IDEAS, THOSE FUCKERS WOULD DO THIS TO THEIR OWN CITY IF GIVEN HALF THE CHANCE.
Joni Mitchell has entered the chat...
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Ok, but when can I call it Central Pork? 🤔😋
TIHI
Finally. Parking in midtown.
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