Winter Survival: Saving Your Parking Spot
After a nor’easter, how best to claim ownership of that parking spot you shoveled out? With a chair, of course. Here, our guide to neighborhood-appropriate space-savers.
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Light enough to take with you to your next nine-month-lease apartment. Price: $40Illustration by Liz Noftle
Pedigreed, understated—just like the two Volvos it will save space for. Price: $1,325Illustration by Liz Noftle
Finally, a turf-holder suitable for the image obsessed Toro regular. Price: $4,523Illustration by Liz Noftle
Subject to neighborhood-council and historical-society approval. Price: If you have to ask…Illustration by Liz Noftle
Plays equally well with midcentury furnishings, Queen Anne–style architecture, tribal-mask collections, and Subarus. Price: $189Illustration by Liz Noftle
Procured from the BU students down the street in exchange for a case of Natty Ice. Price: Sometimes $14.49, at Blanchard’s. Illustration by Liz Noftle
Perfect for holding a space and for sitting in while reading the Herald. Price: Whatever Aunt Maureen paid for it in 1974.Illustration by Liz Noftle
Great for taking out the back window of the car that stole your spot. Price: Free. Claim one 48 hours after the next nor’easter.Illustration by Liz Noftle