Hat tip (blue) to the Media Goon for catching that the 2010 parking for regular season games at Citi Field (baseball and U.S. Open) will be $19.
Post-season will be $25
Special events (like concerts) will be $30 because it must cost the Wilpons more to run a parking lot on those days.
Mets fans may be interested in the Mets Police guide to being cheap about parking.
It was $18 last year right? I guess I can live with a $1 increase. not like I’m going to notice it.
I assume that’s sarcasm, but it probably does cost the Mets more to run the parking lot for concerts, as they probably have to share that revenue.
Cerrone mentioned one day, and i then tries to study, there is some sort of revshare when it comes to a baseball game. A I understand it the concerts are much bigger moneymakers for the wilpons and they don’t have to tip the Marlins. I doubt Dave Matthews is demanding $11 a car but I could be wrong.
Yeah, that’s true, there are definitely revenue sharing things. (that’s why, at least why they used to, says “The Mets and Pirates thank you for being a part of the game)
I wonder how it breaks down. Do the Mets get the same revenue from the seat sales that they would from a game? I don’t think its’ the price per car they’re thinking about but the price to operate and run the Stadium. And the wear and tear (which I can’t see being much, but another 3 hours of someone pounding on seats and kicking trash cans and what not do take their toll) on the stadium, groundscrew overtime to fix the field afterwards. I dunno. It does seem standard procedure around the country to jack up parking costs for events like concerts. But maybe it’s just greed.
will have a post up later today regarding parking revshare
It’s really nice to make my usual commute to the Southfield lot this morning only to find it both empty and closed. Notified by a couple of CitiField parking employees that the lot was closed, that I should have received a flier regarding the closure (which I didn’t and I park in the Southfield lot every business day since I commute via the 7 train) and that I could park on the other side of Roosevelt. After executing a dangerous and probably illegal U-turn in the middle of Roosevelt, I ended up on 126th Street and pulled into the first lot, since that’s where I thought I was supposed to go. Ended up talking to an older gentleman with CitiField parking and was told that I couldn’t park there – when I asked why I was told “Don’t ask me, I work in a parking lot”. Drove around to the other side of the parking lot and ended up talking to a Supervisor who told me that I should have gotten a flier and that I was welcome to park for the full event price ($19 vs. $4 that I’m used to paying). Ended up in the parking lot, no more than 40 feet or so from the far left field corner, same area with all of the TV trucks and service vehicles. I just hope that I can get out tonight since I’ll most likely be getting to the parking lot around game time.
It’s a real headache for commuters when the Wilpons get greedy about parking. Maybe because they realize that this is one of the few series that they’ll actually need all of the parking for? What about the whole take the train to the game idea? Where’s MTA in all of this?
Andrew: The Mets have always done this that I’ve been aware. at least for the bigger games. I used to take the 7 into work, and normally I’d transfer at Woodside, but I had the idea of maybe parking at Shea on days that I wanted to go to the game after work, cheap parking for the game, and my car would be waiting for me afterwards. (because LIRR back to LI is a pain from Citi/Shea) But no, event pricing, so I never did.
My biggest issue with them doing this is the fact that there was no warning. I was told this morning that there was a notice (about half the size of an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper) tacked up on the cashier shack and that I should have read the notice. Given that there’s a lot of stuff tacked up on nearly every surface of the city, seeing a small handbill as I drive by in the morning trying to make it to the train so I can get into the office, not much attention gets paid to it. If they really wanted to let people know, perhaps a sign on the gates at the entrance a few days ahead of time? How much can a few large signs cost?
Having lived through the debacle last year when they started trying to charge everyone going into the lot on game days the full game rate (even though we were arriving 12 or more hours prior to game time) – I see this as yet another management bungle on the part of ImPark. They can’t keep the lot clean, they can’t keep people from parking overnight (yes, I’ve seen cars parked there for months on end that never moved or had the capability of moving) even though that’s posted on the side of the shack… just seems like their thought process is “Our rules are subject to change, whether we notify you or not” – not good corporate citizenship.