Yankee Stadium Parking

[nymdan]

For anybody that's been to YS this year... is parking terrible?

I'm going to the Mets-Yankees game on Friday, and one of my friends told me that if I leave from LI/Queens around 5:00, that there's no chance I'll get parking. Is that the case?

The past few years when I've gone, I've parked in the garage across from the new stadium. Where should I head if I can't find parking there on Friday?

[jimmyjimjimz]

For anybody that's been to YS this year... is parking terrible?

I'm going to the Mets-Yankees game on Friday, and one of my friends told me that if I leave from LI/Queens around 5:00, that there's no chance I'll get parking. Is that the case?

The past few years when I've gone, I've parked in the garage across from the new stadium. Where should I head if I can't find parking there on Friday?

I haven't been to a game yet this year, but I don't think it's gonna be much of a pain in the ass as Shea is. I can see it being much harder getting a spot at Shea than at Yankee Stadium. I think certian lots are gonna be open during certian months.

[xtimx]

not only is the parking situation normally bad but this year is even worse and the mets-yankees series is always the absolute worst when it comes to parking and such.

[jimmyjimjimz]

not only is the parking situation normally bad but this year is even worse and the mets-yankees series is always the absolute worst when it comes to parking and such.

and Yanks-Red Sox, even though I think most people who come from Mass. take buses.

[xtimx]

yeah exactly. its new york fans for both teams coming from the new york area so way more people will be driving than usual.

[Gary Dunaier]

For anybody that's been to YS this year... is parking terrible?

I'm going to the Mets-Yankees game on Friday, and one of my friends told me that if I leave from LI/Queens around 5:00, that there's no chance I'll get parking. Is that the case?

I've been told the Yankee Stadium garages open four hours before the game starts. I don't drive, so that's the best I can help.

I don't know if you're in a position to do this, or even if you'd consider it, but the only thing I can suggest is leave work early so that you can get there when the parking garages open. (You can always spend the extra time walking around the neighborhood and take pictures of the ballparks' exteriors...)

[Manhattan]

I've been told the Yankee Stadium garages open four hours before the game starts. I don't drive, so that's the best I can help.

I don't know if you're in a position to do this, or even if you'd consider it, but the only thing I can suggest is leave work early so that you can get there when the parking garages open. (You can always spend the extra time walking around the neighborhood and take pictures of the ballparks' exteriors...)
I don't know if I will be at Yankee Stadium this season or not this season.

[JeepingBaseball]

You can save the money, the hassle of traffic, and the chances of finding your car on blocks....

take the subway.

[nymdan]

You can save the money, the hassle of traffic, and the chances of finding your car on blocks....

take the subway.
I think that's more of a hassle than it's worth, coming from LI. Taking the LIRR into Penn, walking over to Grand Central, and then taking the subway up to YS is a big schlep.

I don't know if you're in a position to do this, or even if you'd consider it, but the only thing I can suggest is leave work early so that you can get there when the parking garages open. (You can always spend the extra time walking around the neighborhood and take pictures of the ballparks' exteriors...)
Earliest I can leave is 4:30. But don't worry, I'm going Sunday too, so I'll definitely have pictures at some point this weekend.

[SparkyL]

I think that's more of a hassle than it's worth, coming from LI. Taking the LIRR into Penn, walking over to Grand Central, and then taking the subway up to YS is a big schlep.



I come in from NJ into Penn and take to A/C to 125th and the B/D to 161. No need to go to Grand Central.

My sister went to a game last Sunday, got to the Stadium around 11:30 and was able to park in the River Ave garage.

[nymdan]

I come in from NJ into Penn and take to A/C to 125th and the B/D to 161. No need to go to Grand Central.
Hmm. Maybe I'll do that on Friday. How would you say it takes to get from Penn to YS?

[Gary Dunaier]

I come in from NJ into Penn and take to A/C to 125th and the B/D to 161.

That's a little difficult, only because - as I'm sure you know - the A and C are on different platforms. Unless you can run up and down stairs really, really fast, it must be frustrating to be waiting on the express platform for the A only to have the C show up on the local.

I'd think it would be more advantageous to wait on the local platform and take whichever comes first, the C or the E. If you get the E you can change at 7th Avenue for a B or D.

[nymdan]

So yesterday I did end up taking the subway. Took an A (or C?) from Penn to Columbus Circle, and then transfered to the D to Yankee Stadium.

It was okay, but I'd rather drive if I'm able to leave early enough, since with no traffic, it should only take me about a half hour to get to Yankee Stadium, while my trip on the LIRR and the subway took me about an hour and a half.

[jimmyjimjimz]

That's a little difficult, only because - as I'm sure you know - the A and C are on different platforms. Unless you can run up and down stairs really, really fast, it must be frustrating to be waiting on the express platform for the A only to have the C show up on the local.

I'd think it would be more advantageous to wait on the local platform and take whichever comes first, the C or the E. If you get the E you can change at 7th Avenue for a B or D.

Actually, some stations, the A and the C stop on the same platform. Like at Broadway/Nassau/Fulton Street. I take the A home from there all the time, and every once in a while, the C stops on the platform.

[xtimx]

Actually, some stations, the A and the C stop on the same platform. Like at Broadway/Nassau/Fulton Street. I take the A home from there all the time, and every once in a while, the C stops on the platform.

south of canal street and all the way to hoyt-schermerhorn street in brooklyn the line goes from 4 tracks to 2 so the express and local have to merge onto one track. after canal street going northbound the trains go onto seperate tracks and the A is express and the C (and E) are local.
the A and C ALWAYS stop at every station between canal and hoyt (chambers, broadway-nassau, high st and jay street).

[Gary Dunaier]

Actually, some stations, the A and the C stop on the same platform.

I was specifically referring to the 34th Street/Penn. Station station.

[xtimx]

I was specifically referring to the 34th Street/Penn. Station station.

yeah that station is not set up well in so much as if you need to go somewhere quick you can't take whichever comes first. supposedly the station was built that way because they knew the station was going to be busy because penn station was right there so they built it like that to discourage cross platform local-express transferring.
personally i think you are better off going to the uptown local platform as you have 2 trains stopping there as opposed to just the A on the express. if the C comes take it to 59th columbus circle and transfer to the D. if the E comes take it to 7th avenue and transfer across the platform to the D.
thats just me personally though.

[Gary Dunaier]

personally i think you are better off going to the uptown local platform as you have 2 trains stopping there as opposed to just the A on the express. if the C comes take it to 59th columbus circle and transfer to the D. if the E comes take it to 7th avenue and transfer across the platform to the D.
thats just me personally though.

Now where have I heard that before... :think:

I'd think it would be more advantageous to wait on the local platform and take whichever comes first, the C or the E. If you get the E you can change at 7th Avenue for a B or D.

:cool:

[xtimx]

Now where have I heard that before... :think:



:cool:

oop sorry i didn't even see this. whenever jimmyjimmyjim or whatever posts my mind gets really confused and it sucks in all posts before and after it.
tonights game better not rain out, i got tickets and want to see the mets win again.

[jimmyjimjimz]

oop sorry i didn't even see this. whenever jimmyjimmyjim or whatever posts my mind gets really confused and it sucks in all posts before and after it.
tonights game better not rain out, i got tickets and want to see the mets win again.

what?

how do my posts confuse you?

Anyway, I don't take the marklar from marklar to marklar that much, so I didn't know the marklar marklar stopped on a different marklar than the marklar marklar at that marklar.

Translation:
I don't get the A Train at Penn Station/The Garden that much, so I didn't know the C and the A stopped on different platforms. Marklar.

[SparkyL]

That's a little difficult, only because - as I'm sure you know - the A and C are on different platforms. Unless you can run up and down stairs really, really fast, it must be frustrating to be waiting on the express platform for the A only to have the C show up on the local.

I'd think it would be more advantageous to wait on the local platform and take whichever comes first, the C or the E. If you get the E you can change at 7th Avenue for a B or D.

True - I wait up the platform and wait at the top of the stairs - looking down to see which train is coming. That gives me time to jog to the other platform if need be.

Also, if I get the A - I will often take it to 125th just in case they have the D running local.

[jimmyjimjimz]

The only train I can take home is the A, cause I live in Rockaway, and the A is the only train that stops in Rockaway.

[Bernard Shakey]

Hmm. Maybe I'll do that on Friday. How would you say it takes to get from Penn to YS?


Sorry you got rained out. I did the A/C 125th B/D thing last week. Total time from Penn to YS was 30 minutes, the return only took 25 minutes.