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.
That actually sounds like exactly what would happen if the confederacy gains control of New York
Real Cars for real Red Blooded Americans!
Monster trucks? …The white house wouldn’t have it any other way
Fill that pond in, that’s 50,000 more dollars of wasted space!
Nah, that’s now a cooling pond for a data center.
Seriously: send it all straight into the Hudson River. Who needs “detention ponds” to “offset flood risk”?
(Also, I know this is AI slop, but what’s up with those downright columnar towers in the background? 😭)
Also, ewww! Exposed water is where mosquitoes brew!
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.
The more car friendly a place is, the less desirable to actually be there it is
“America!”
Probably put a data center in it.
A CostCo that has converted exclusively to self-checkout machines.
What a waste! Think of all the data centres that could be put there!
Welcome to Costco. I love you.
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Ok, but when can I call it Central Pork? 🤔😋
This is literally what Grant Park at the north end in Chicago looked like until they built millennium Park
