Sorry, that's the point I was intending to make

hand to god i had some friends who kept running out of money and had to move back in with her parents in south carolina and they'd save up enough to get back to nyc and twice they parked the car they owned on the street and had it towed and just didn't bother to get it back. presumably got crushed.

straight up feeding cars to nyc municipal crushers.

I mean if you feel the need to own a car but don't plan to use it regularly the easiest solution is to park it somewhere with cheap monthly rates that's within a couple of miles of an NJT/MNR/LIRR station

it was really stupid because they were musicians who needed to take cabs to get their gear to gigs, but they just never had the $500 or whatever to get the car out of the impound and apparently didn't think to just move it around every few days to keep ahead of the street sweepers or whatever.