Gas Stations Becoming Harder To Find In Manhattan
NEW YORK (WCBS 880) - Finding somewhere to pump gas in the city is becoming harder to do.
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Consumer Affairs says 41 gas stations are found in Manhattan, primarily above 96th Street and along 10th and 11th Avenues.
That's down from 58 two years ago, according to says Crain's New York Business.
One livery driver has found a simple solution: when the gas gauge inches towards empty in Manhattan, he drives to Brooklyn because the prices are lower there.
At shift change, cabbie Adel J'daou says there's a line of yellow at gas stations on the Lower East Side.
"What are you gonna do? There's nothing, only three gas stations left in the neighborhood," he told WCBS 880 reporter Paul Murnane.
When a developer snaps up a gas station, there are no tenants to deal with, which means that there is nothing from stopping the developer from turning the site into something other than a gas station.
On the other side of all of this are the gas station owners. One says that, as the competition fades away, his stations are doing better than ever.
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