Where to park your car around Yankees Stadium?

Question

This will be my first ever Yankees game on August 28 at 1PM against the Red Sox. I know parking is premium anywhere in NYC but I have no choice but to drive my out-of-towners to the game as public transport is out of question due to one of my friend had phobia with public transportation. To detail my question, is arriving few hours, say, 4 hours before the game will be sufficient enough to easily find a parking around the Stadium area? I know most parking garages in Midtown Manhattan allows advance reservation. How about the parking garages around Yankees Stadium do they have advance parking reservation?

Answer 1

OMG!!!  I have tickets to the same game!!  Four hours in plenty of time.  I live in New Jersey so I always take public transportation.  It's actually not bad at all.  It a shame that your friend can't utilize it.  It would make things a lot easier for both of you.

Have a blast!  

Answer 2

Arriving early should be a good idea. That New York traffic is brutal from what I hear.

Answer 3

Arriving four hours early is way too early. Most lots don't open until 2 hours before the game, which is the same time the gates themselves open.

It depends on how much you want to spend, but you have a few options to choose from. There is the parking garage down the right field line, which is convenient and typically will have spaces available for $17, but getting out of there after a game, especially a sold out game like that, takes forever.

There are also a few $25 lots right across the street from the home plate gate (Gate A). They are very convenient and typically not too hard to get out of, but the most expensive.

There are valet parking lots for about $20-25 across the street that the bleacher entrance is on and a few more down the road and around the corner for about $20 that are valet and such.

Last, there are a few across the highway, which I think you have to take a special exit off the highway to get to. They are the ones that you cross a footbridge to get to the stadium from, and I'm not quite sure about those but I'd think it'd be a tail gating place and probably be a little jammed up right by the highway afterwards.

Basically, your easiest bets are the garage or the ones right across the street, but if you want to save money you can look further away from the stadium heading out to the south/east and look that way too.

Answer 4

4 hours will be plenty of time. Too much time. I don't know if they have advance parking res. because I've only used them once in an emergency. I don't like to walk all the way to the stadium from the garage, so I try to get there real early so I can get the best spot available.

Have fun at the game, Red Sox + Yankee games are always the most fun for me.

Answer 5

Yes, get there very early, it IS New York.  You never know what could happen...

Good thing it's a day game, because that way, all of the drug dealers on the streets of New York won't get a chance to break into your car!

Answer 6

When I am in town for a game, I usually take a shuttle from the hotel. being that you have to drive, I am sure one of the parking garages will be fine. The lines can be long trying to leave after the game..It is a good Idea to arrive early and leave early.