PropertyShark Map of the Month: See every co-op and condo with a parking garage in NYC

By Property Shark | January 21, 2014 - 10:42AM

If you’re among the rarest type of city dweller—one with a car, that is—it may behoove you to know where exactly you’d be able to park that ride before you fork over a down payment on a new apartment.

And while a parking garage in the neighborhood is all well and good, the cherry on that cherry-red convertible is a garage located inside your co-op or condo building, where you'll be able to lug groceries only a short distance, duck the polar vortex, and eliminate the stress of the double-parking loading/unloading zone.

To help you find these basement carparks, real estate data powerhouse PropertyShark.com has put together an interactive map of all co-op and condo buildings with parking garages in NYC. Condos with parking garages are signified by a blue car, and co-ops are marked with a green car. (Rental buildings with garages are denoted in red, though the map does not include every rental with on-site parking.)

A quick glance will show you where to focus your apartment search if you crave on-site parking in your next abode.

In Manhattan, the largest concentration of condos and co-ops with garages can be found in upscale residential neighborhoods like the Upper East Side and the Upper West Side. The comparatively low-rise neighborhood of Greenwich Village, as well as Tribeca and Chelsea, has a smattering of buildings with on-site parking, while West Harlem and the Lower East Side are the Sahara deserts of on-site garages.

In Brooklyn and Queens, you'll probably need to focus your search on condos, since that's where most on-site garages are located. The Williamsburg/Greenpoint neighborhoods appear to have the highest concentration of on-site parking in Brooklyn. In Queens, Long Island City and pockets of of Astoria are particularly car-friendly.

While the map can help you get a clearer picture of your options, remember that just because there's a garage, doesn't mean there's parking.

“You might see that there’s a garage attached to a certain property on the map, but what you don’t know is that there might also be a three-year waiting list. There’s not necessarily a spot for you," points out Nancy Jorisch, a senior data analyst for PropertyShark.

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