The summer movie “I, Robot,” features a future in which robots are an everyday household item and parking garages automatically stack, store and dispense cars like they were items in a vending machine.
While you probably won’t see robot-servants anytime soon, the first automatic parking garage is set to debut in New York.
123 Baxter, a new condo building under construction in Little Italy, will feature a 67-car garage that retrieves cars for owners automatically.
Owners who swipe their keycards as they board the elevators will find their cars waiting for them by the time they reach the lobby of the 25-unit building, which is being built by developer ADG Organization. The building is set to be completed in 10 months.
Monthly parking permits will cost around $375, or $4,500 a year, and residents of the building will get a discount.
Meanwhile, buying a parking space in the city the old-fashioned way of parking. can run more than $150,000.
In the Grabler Building at 44 Laight Street, each of the 14 parking spots cost $169,000 as of earlier this year.
All this pales in comparison to the mother of all parking spaces – Jerry Seinfeld’s private Manhattan garage on West 83rd Street.
After five years of renovation, the two-floor garage was completed this past spring. It holds only five cars, plus a bachelor pad with plasma screen TV and pool table upstairs.