Congestion Relief Zone tolling begins on January 5 (NYC)

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Congestion Relief Zone tolling begins on January 5

Dear DON,

Starting on January 5, 2025, vehicles entering the Central Business District (CBD), popularly referred to as the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ), will be charged a toll. The CRZ includes local streets and avenues at or below 60th St in Manhattan, and excludes trips entirely done on the FDR Drive, West Side Highway/Route 9A, and the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel connections to West Street.

The toll amount depends on several factors: the type of vehicle, time of day, whether any crossing credits apply, and payment method. For example, passenger vehicles with E-ZPass tags entering the CRZ at 60 Street will be charged $9 in the peak period and $2.25 overnight, once daily. To learn more, visit Congestion Pricing Program in New York - MTA

Please review your E-ZPass account to ensure that it has your current license plate number. To receive appropriate discounts, exemptions, and crossing credits, your license plate number is required.

Visit the MTA website to learn more about discounts and exemptions for Congestion Relief Zone Tolling. Congestion Pricing Program in New York - MTA
 
We have a parking garage beneath our building. I also keep my car here about half the year during which time I do the move every few days routine. My car is a straight drive beat-up 2008 Toyota so street parking isn’t that big of a deal. If I’m clever I can even park it so I either can see it from our apartment window, pass by it when walking the dogs, or the building guard can see it from his spot.

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You haven't really parked in New York until you squeeze into a parallel parking spot with your bumper touching those of the cars to your front and back.
 
Tomorrow morning at 9:40 or so I’ll move my car out of the Tues/Friday 11:00-12:30 space into a 8:30-10:00 one, sitting there until 10 to thwart ticketing. Then I will be good until next Tuesday morning at 8:30. I’ll keep an eye on it and with some luck I’ll grab a Monday/Thursday spot sometime Monday afternoon and then have until Thursday clear. It’s a circle/cycle.
 
donbosco said:
Tomorrow morning at 9:40 or so I’ll move my car out of the Tues/Friday 11:00-12:30 space into a 8:30-10:00 one, sitting there until 10 to thwart ticketing. Then I will be good until next Tuesday morning at 8:30. I’ll keep an eye on it and with some luck I’ll grab a Monday/Thursday spot sometime Monday afternoon and then have until Thursday clear. It’s a circle/cycle.
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I find this entirely fascinating and confusing. Is it really worth all this to have the car? How often do you use it?
 
I was in the city this past weekend, I was surprised by the (relative) lack of traffic. Granted, it was New Year's weekend, so maybe a lot of folks were out of town, but we were crossing cross streets with a red light at almost every corner and it wasn't like we were hurrying b/c a car was coming at a distance, there just weren't any cars period coming down the cross streets. Crossed a couple of avenues with a red light, too..
 
hedge said:
I was in the city this past weekend, I was surprised by the (relative) lack of traffic. Granted, it was New Year's weekend, so maybe a lot of folks were out of town, but we were crossing cross streets with a red light at almost every corner and it wasn't like we were hurrying b/c a car was coming at a distance, there just weren't any cars period coming down the cross streets. Crossed a couple of avenues with a red light, too..
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Interesting that you write that because my wife and I both commented on the emptiness of the city over the past ten days or so.
 
donbosco said:
It’s my way back and forth between the city and North Carolina. I’m pretty much a half-timer in each place. But my dogs go where I go so by car is how I do it.
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yeah, i have a buddy who lives in brooklyn who does this whole song and dance with his car, too. constantly moving it around.
 
donbosco said:
Tomorrow morning at 9:40 or so I’ll move my car out of the Tues/Friday 11:00-12:30 space into a 8:30-10:00 one, sitting there until 10 to thwart ticketing. Then I will be good until next Tuesday morning at 8:30. I’ll keep an eye on it and with some luck I’ll grab a Monday/Thursday spot sometime Monday afternoon and then have until Thursday clear. It’s a circle/cycle.
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Among the many reasons I don’t have a care here. Can’t imagine doing this on the reg.

ETA: glad that congestion pricing is beginning. We need the money for public transport maintenance desperately and it helps price the true cost of all these cars.
 
4thgenheel said:
yeah, i have a buddy who lives in brooklyn who does this whole song and dance with his car, too. constantly moving it around.
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I did it for a few years. In Brooklyn it's much easier -- at least in Park Slope. I only had to move the car once a week, not twice. Plus, Brooklyn side streets aren't as busy, so people would just move their cars to the other side of the street, creating a line of vehicles right next to the properly parked ones. If you live on a street with one side being cleaned on Monday and the other on Thursday -- well, if it's Monday and you need to get somewhere, either leave well in advance of the street cleaning or park somewhere else.

It really wasn't a big deal at all. Annoying sometimes, but manageable. In Manhattan it would be more difficult for a number of reasons, including (in my experience) much less tolerance from parking police about the double parking.
 
We were on the Upper West Side (West 80’s b/t West End and Riverside) and kept one car. I went up to New Paltz 2-4 times a month to climb at the Gunks; so, keeping a car seemed to make sense.

We did the alternate side parking drill. We were T-Th, 8-11 AM. We had no problem with “double-parking” on street cleaning days

Unfortunately, we managed to rack up 3-4 tickets in 18-24 months. They were $50/55 each. Even worse, my wife (she did the family check-writing) didn’t pay the tickets. She circular-filed them.

I came home one evening and noticed the car wasn’t where I’d left it. My first thought was, “Great, Mrs. Zoo moved the car.”

Reached the apartment and thanked her for moving the car. She hadn’t.

$1,800 and a trip to Red Hook later, I had the car back.

Found a garage at 122nd and Broadway for $99/month.

Should have gotten rid of both cars and rented.
 
Wonder if that garage on 122nd and Broadway is still going...I live on 125th and Broadway.

Did you know that George Carlin grew up on 121st on the block between Broadway and Amsterdam?
 
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We kind of hid our George Carlin albums from our parents. After all his irreverence gave us the “7 Words You Can’t Say on TV.” That joke went all the way to The Supreme Court. That was back when jokes visited the SCOTUS rather than being permanent fixtures. The ever-shifting and unstable Sirius XM often has a George Carlin Channel. I drive the NC to NYC and back route often and that media is a great help. Late once when driving north through the dark Pennsylvania night I tuned in and Carlin carried me along for many miles. His comedy was philosophy.

Turns out that Carlin grew up just a few blocks from our apartment in NYC in an area he dubbed ‘White Harlem.’ ( 121st and Amsterdam). He was Irish Catholic (his dad immigrated from Ireland). He attended several schools - evidently he was a bit of a rounder - no surprise there - but finally settled into the Corpus Christi School. If you’ve listened to his comedic musings you know that his association with the Church and organized religion made for much fodder. Corpus Christi is on the block where he lived.

He made many albums and for one the cover shows him standing in the street in front of ‘The Miami,’ at #519 121st Street. That’s the building where he and his family lived. Carlin died in 2008. Some disingenuous or dishonest (or both) folk in recent times have tried to say that Carlin had an affinity with what passes for metaphysics among the MAGA crowd. That would be laughable were it not so typical of the alternate reality that trump and trumpism have so destructively inserted into society to hoodwink so very many sad souls. The truth is that it is a shame he wasn’t around for retched, rotten maturation of trumpism. He hated hypocrisy and turned his voice brutally toward exposing it. In 1989 when asked about a much younger but no less publicly dishonest and disgusting donald trump, Carlin was on target with his three-letter description of the real estate shyster as simply a “rat” that ought to be “run over by a truck.” See here the video:

After he passed in 2008 Carlin’s friends and fans asked the city to commemorate him in his childhood neighborhood by renaming his old block for him. Corpus Christi Church fought against it - they clearly held a grudge. For six years the struggle carried on and eventually the block adjacent - not Carlin’s (or the church’s) — was retitled: ‘George Carlin Way.’

George Carlin, irritating hypocrites from the grave. Seems perfect.
 
donbosco said:
Wonder if that garage on 122nd and Broadway is still going...I live on 125th and Broadway.

Did you know that George Carlin grew up on 121st on the block between Broadway and Amsterdam?
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I bet the garage is still there. Doubt it’s $99/month.
 
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