Car-Share Companies Get Coveted Parking in New York City

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Car-Share Companies Get Coveted Parking in New York City

May 31, 2018

By: SARAH MASLIN NIR

Losing a handful of street parking spots along a stretch of Upper Manhattan may seem like relatively little to give up. But in the blood sport that is parking in New York, Elisa Ferreira, who was pushing her son, Mason, in a stroller through Hamilton Heights on a recent weekday, said that the 20 spots the city plans to remove from her neighborhood will just make the ordeal even worse.

“It’s already really hard to find parking” Ms. Ferreira said. “It’s only going to be harder for us.’’

Starting Monday, as part of its campaign to expand transportation options, the city is taking away about 300 parking spots in more than a dozen neighborhoods, mostly outside of Manhattan, and reserving them exclusively for vehicles from car-share companies, like Zipcar. It is the first time the companies, which currently keep their inventory in parking garages, will be allowed to store cars on city streets.

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