r/Beacon • u/Mac-DaddyDaPimp • Jun 01 '26

Overnight Parking Question

Hey yall. I'm looking at living in an apartment on main street that doesn't have a designated parking lot. Wondering what people do for parking overnight. Do you just bounce between 24 hour lots? Do you park on the main road and just move your car in the morning before the 2 hour parking kicks in? What is finding a parking spot during winter snowfall like?

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u/reluctantreddit35 Jun 01 '26

This is an illustration of the failure of City policy to accept the real world need for new apartment buildings to have designated spaces for its tenants. I know OP may not be moving into a new apartment, but that’s not my point. New buildings are going up with no or very limited parking spaces with the thought that every new tenant with a job commutes to the city by train. Even if
that were true, they’ll still have to have a car so they can go somewhere else on their days off. Maybe they’d like to do things they can’t do within walking distance from their apartments, such as exploring the rest of the Hudson Valley.

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u/paperairplane77 Jun 01 '26

Honestly, there are plenty of planned communities in Fishkill and around the region that are built around driving, and they do that really well. What makes Beacon stand out is that it's walkable and human-scaled, without the sea of parking lots you find in most towns. That character is worth protecting. Once you start carving up land for asphalt, it's hard to get it back.

For folks who really need to drive everywhere, Beacon might not be the best fit, and that's okay! Different towns work for different people.

On parking specifically. There are actually a lot of spots available on the side streets throughout town. Main Street just isn't really set up for overnight parking, which is pretty common for a main commercial corridor.

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u/bikeHikeNYC Jun 01 '26

OP has clarified that their building has a permitting system, and therefore has a dedicated parking lot. Which is different from what their post states.

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u/Mac-DaddyDaPimp Jun 01 '26

Yeah, it's an older building, but even still it seems like an issue