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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No because most of these kids want to move to cities where they won't need one and it would just be a pain.[/quote]

+100 Mine is heading to NYC. No car is needed. We will furnish the apartment instead. [/quote]

All those posh apartment buildings in Brooklyn have garages. [/quote]

Yeah…so do Manhattan buildings but few people without kids are paying $1000+ per month to garage a car that gets used almost never.  Also, most of those garages are for people parking overnight that don’t even live in the building.[/quote]

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Who would want a car in NYC?  You cannot use it.  if you take it out, you have to pay to park wherever you are going, so you sit in traffic for 30 mins and pay $40-50 to park it.  It's easier and cheaper to uber both ways.

And after the $500+/month to pay to park, you also can add $500/month for insurance.  Much easier to just rent a vehicle when you want to drive somewhere outside the city for a vacation or such
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Not to mention the tolls are like $20 just to cross the bridge.[/quote]

The typical Manhattanite or even Brooklyn typically do not have cars.  It's simply not worth the $$$, stress and hassle.

Last time I was in NYC, took Uber from LGA to Times Square area.  Once we entered NYC at midtown tunnel, it was over an hour to go 1.8 miles to the hotel. It could be walked in 35 mins easily.  Had we not had tons of luggage (moving kid out from college, so several large suitcases) I would have defiantly ended the trip and walked (or taken the subway).   Why would anyone drive there own vehicle in that mess??!!? (hint, they dont')
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The super rich have cars for when they leave the city.  They also have private garages under their townhouses or even car elevators.   Also some parts of Queens and Brooklyn are more suburban and cars are more common. But Manhattan for the most part is carless.

My daughter doesn’t even have a driver’s license.   She knows the subways by heart and takes Ubers.   She did recently get her permit.  I drove with her in Astoria and I hope she never needs to drive.  It was bad. [/quote]

Most of our son's classmates at GULC had cars.[/quote]

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