Imperial Parking Systems

My husband and I’ve been parking here over the weekend when we’ve gone to visit friends who live in the nearby apartment buildings. Each time, we find the garage understaffed and we spend several minutes standing around waiting to hand over our keys. The wait is even worse when we return for pick-​up: we routinely wait 10 minutes or more before an attendant even shows up to take our ticket.
We tolerated the parking garage because it was pretty conveniently located. But after last weekend, we will never be parking here again.
After again waiting the usual 10 minutes to find an attendant, the attendant took our card and payment, then went to retrieve the car. 10 minutes later, we still hadn’t seen him back. By 15 minutes, he returned with a panicked look on his face: he couldn’t find our car key. What followed was more than a half an hour of my husband and he looking everywhere and still not being able to find our key — and no we hadn’t traveled with our spare.
Eventually, after nearly 40 minutes of increasingly stressful waiting, the attendant called the staff who had taken in the car the previous day. It turns out that that attendant had left our car key UNLOCKED, PINNED RIGHT UNDER THE WINDSHIELD WIPER ON THE OUTSIDE OF OUR CAR. No one else working at the garage was notified that our key had been placed there. Anyone could have walked in, seen the key, and just driven off with our car.
We did not even receive a refund for the $ 30+ parking cost for housing our car in that garage over night. Never again.

Careful the weekend guy doesn’t jip you.
I like this garage, and I like the attendants during the weekdays. I trust them and they’re sweet and are good at their jobs. However, whoever was working there last Saturday between 4pm and 630pm overcharged me. I asked him why it was more than usual and he ignored me. I thought perhaps he didn’t hear me and it was the weekend. But I went back to check their rates and he overcharged me by 30%. Unfortunately they only accept cash these days (how convenient) and I am unable to go back and complain to management. I’m disappointed, as I gave a good tip on top of being unknowingly overcharged.

When my sister & family came into town for the day I needed to find a fair-​priced garage in Williamsburg with easy access to the subway. I followed the advice of the first reviewer and was not disappointed.
Fantastic rates, good service and quick access to vehicle!

Finding street parking in Williamsburg on a weekend is like locating a clean public bathroom in a park: almost impossible. The unending onslaught of bicyclists, tourists, hipsters, trustafarians and visitors (Note these categories are not mutually exclusive) make finding the elusive street spot an exercise in patience culminating in eventual disappointment. There’s no shortage of yellow marked curbs painted by garages not in use to ward off the wily rogue vehicle. There’s no shortage of cars already claiming a prime location, taunting me with their stationary bliss.
So what is a road warrior to do besides grow increasingly angry, flip the hostile pedestrians the bird and explode into D-​FENS type rage a la «Falling Down» ?
Park here.
It’s by the waterfront so take in the aquatic scene and feel your blood pressure ease back to normal. You don’t have to worry about damage to your vehicle as it’s safe in this fortress of automobile solitude. Leave the keys with the attendant, relax and enjoy a night out knowing your wheels are protected.
I was pleased by the cost for 5 hours: $ 10! Maybe the attendant made a typo or maybe not, compared to the cost of parking in other parts of this metropolis, $ 10 is a steal.
Perhaps because this is deep in the heart of the people’s republic of bicycling, there are fewer fossil fuel enthusiasts depositing their car resulting in hardly any wait for an attendant.
Future vehicular visits to Williamsburg will have only one address in my GPS: this garage.