Yankee Stadium Parking: Same $49, Four Different Garages

One price at four Yankee Stadium garages, four different ways out

City Parking charges $49 self park at all four Yankee Stadium garages that carry a published rate, so price never decides the choice. Address does. Each garage sits on a different street, and those streets feed different gates and different Major Deegan ramps, checked September 2026.

That flattens the usual parking question into a different one. Nobody driving to the Bronx is shopping for a cheaper garage among the rated four, because there is not one. What a driver is actually choosing is a position: which street the car sits on, which gate that street walks to, and which way the car turns when the game ends. Three of those decisions are made at the reservation page, hours before anyone reaches Interstate 87.

Facility and address, per City Parking	Published rate, checked September 2026	Street it sits on, and the gates that street serves	Published limitation	Best for
YSP 1: 161st Street Garage, 20 East 161st Street	$49 self park, set by City Parking	East 161st Street, the entry street the Yankees publish for Gate 4 and Gate 6	No drive-up rate published by City Parking	A southbound arrival, the one direction both issuers route the same way
YSP 2: Gerard Avenue Lot, 1011 Gerard Avenue	$49 self park and $325 bus, set by City Parking	Gerard Avenue, the one rated address on a street named in no gate entry	The only rated facility missing from the club’s recommended list	A coach or a group arriving in a single vehicle
YSP 3: River Avenue Garage, 950 River Avenue	$49 self park, set by City Parking	River Avenue, the entry street the Yankees publish for Gate 6 and Gate 8	Shares its street with the 161st Street/Yankee Stadium subway entrance	A party splitting between a car and the 4 or D train
YSP 4: Ruppert Plaza Garage, 1 Macombs Dam Park	$49 self park, set by City Parking	Macombs Dam Park, at the bridge named in both the Gate 4 entry and Exit 5	Takes redirected Premium Parking Pass holders in the postseason	Crossing the Macombs Dam Bridge in both directions
164th Street Garage, named by the Yankees	No rate published by City Parking	Named only inside the postseason advisory the Yankees publish	Expected to reach capacity quickly in the postseason	A Premium Parking Pass holder willing to be sent elsewhere

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What City Parking posts for each facility, and what it leaves blank

City Parking lists four Yankee Stadium facilities with a posted price and prices every one of them at $49 self park, checked September 2026. The same operator describes a system of seven garages and lots surrounding the stadium with over 9,000 parking spaces, which leaves three facilities in the system carrying no published price at all.

The rated four are written out by number and address: YSP 1, the 161st Street Garage at 20 East 161st Street; YSP 2, the Gerard Avenue Lot at 1011 Gerard Avenue; YSP 3, the River Avenue Garage at 950 River Avenue; and YSP 4, the Ruppert Plaza Garage at 1 Macombs Dam Park. Only the Gerard Avenue Lot posts a second vehicle class, at $325 for a bus. Why the club has no say in any of those numbers is set out in the guide to Yankee Stadium as a venue and its published rules.

The club keeps a shorter list. Under Recommended Garages the Yankees name three: Ruppert Plaza Garage at 1 Macombs Dam Park, 161st Street Garage at 20 East 161st Street and River Avenue Garage at 950 River Avenue, adding that fans are encouraged to prebook a spot online before arriving in the Bronx. Priced but left off that list, the Gerard Avenue Lot is the exception. The 164th Street Garage is named in the club’s postseason advisory but priced nowhere.

What is missing matters as much. No drive-up rate appears on the reservation page, so the gap between prepaying and paying at the barrier is not a published figure in either direction. Van Parking sits on the page as a third service option alongside Self Park and Bus Parking, with no posted price of its own. City Parking separates its seven facilities from what it calls unaffiliated operators of area parking lots nearby; those operators set their own rates, and neither the club nor City Parking publishes them. Either question goes to [email protected] or (718) 588-7817.

The Major Deegan exit the Yankees and City Parking do not agree on

Two issuers publish two different Major Deegan exits for the same four garages. The Yankees list Exit 4 and Exit 5 for northbound Interstate 87 traffic, while City Parking tells northbound drivers to get off at exit 3, both checked September 2026.

The club’s wording is the more specific of the two. Yankee Stadium is described as accessible from the Major Deegan Expressway, Interstate 87, at Exit 4 for East 149th Street and the 145th Street Bridge and Exit 5 for East 161st Street and the Macombs Dam Bridge when heading north, and at Exit 5 alone when heading south. Every exit carries its cross street.

City Parking writes it as a rule of thumb instead: drivers headed north from Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx or Long Island get off at exit 3, and drivers headed south from upstate or New Jersey at exit 5. No cross street is attached to exit 3 anywhere on the operator’s page. The two issuers agree exactly once, on the southbound ramp, and the operator settles its own ambiguity in the next sentence by telling drivers to enter the specific lot or garage address into their GPS.

Most drivers treat the ramp number as the decision worth getting right. It is the one fact about this drive the two issuers do not share. The address is the fact they do share, and it is the one that survives a wrong turn. A venue that owns its own lots never produces this split, which is visible in the way MetLife Stadium publishes its own lots and permit rules under a single name. In the Bronx, navigate by address. The ramp number is contested.

Which Yankee Stadium gate each garage address puts you beside

Yankee Stadium publishes its four gates by the streets you enter from rather than by a map reference. Gate 2 is entered via Jerome Avenue and East 164th Street, Gate 4 via East 161st Street and the Macombs Dam Bridge, Gate 6 via East 161st Street and River Avenue, and Gate 8 via River Avenue and East 164th Street.

Line those four entries up against the four rated addresses and the garages stop looking interchangeable. The 161st Street Garage at 20 East 161st Street sits on the street named in two gate entries, Gate 4 and Gate 6. The River Avenue Garage at 950 River Avenue sits on the street named in the other two, Gate 6 and Gate 8. The Ruppert Plaza Garage at 1 Macombs Dam Park sits at the crossing named twice over, once in the Gate 4 entry and once in the southbound Exit 5 that both issuers publish.

The Gerard Avenue Lot is the outlier. Gerard Avenue appears in none of the four gate entries the club publishes, which makes 1011 Gerard Avenue the only rated address whose street the stadium never names as a way in. It is also the only one carrying a bus rate, at $325, so the facility the club leaves off its recommended list is the facility a coach is sent to.

One overlap changes the walk. Riders arrive at the 161st Street/Yankee Stadium subway station, which the Yankees place on East 161st Street at River Avenue, the same corner published as the Gate 6 entry and the same street the River Avenue Garage stands on. A driver who books 950 River Avenue is buying a walk that runs alongside the 4 and D crowd rather than away from it. Jerome Avenue, meanwhile, carries Gate 2 and no rated facility at all, and Gate 2 is where the club publishes car service dispatch. The gate is chosen when the reservation is bought, not when the car stops.

Two adults and a $49 garage, measured per ride

A $49 self park charge at Yankee Stadium is fixed per vehicle and does not fall when the car arrives half empty, per City Parking. Two adults making a round trip generate four one-way rides between them, which puts the garage level with rail at $12.25 a ride.

Push the same car to four adults and the arithmetic moves without anything about the garage changing: eight one-way rides, a break-even of $6.13. The club publishes no MTA fare anywhere, sending riders to mta.info or 511 for game-day schedules and fare information, so the threshold is the number this page can state and the fare is the number a reader supplies. What the threshold does is turn a vague preference into a test with an answer.

Two adults coming from Manhattan or the Bronx: the 4 or D train wins, on the $12.25 break-even. The 161st Street/Yankee Stadium station stands at East 161st Street and River Avenue, the same corner the club publishes as the Gate 6 entry, so a garage buys no walking advantage over the subway. The wrinkle is the B, which the Yankees state reaches that station on weekdays only, so a Saturday plan needs the 4 or the D.

Two adults coming south from Westchester: Metro-North to Yankees-E 153rd St wins, and the criterion is schedule certainty rather than price. A southbound car has exactly one published ramp, Exit 5, and no published alternate, while the railroad delivers to a platform the club calls steps away from the gates. The club publishes neither the timetable nor the fare for it, which is why riders on the Metro-North lines that run through Westchester settle the return train before first pitch.

Four adults travelling together: the garage wins at $6.13 a ride, and the condition is that all four ride both ways. Anyone carrying a bag over the gate limit: the garage wins whatever the arithmetic says, because the trunk is the only storage on the property once a bag fails the check described in the Yankee Stadium bag policy. A group arriving by coach: the Gerard Avenue Lot wins by default, as the single facility with a published bus rate of $325. Postseason: rail wins in the club’s own words, which advise ticketed fans to arrive early and via public transportation.

Read together, those six answers are not really about parking. They are about how many people are in the car.

How a Yankee Stadium parking reservation is actually bought

Prepaid individual-game parking must be obtained from City Parking, per the Yankees, who encourage fans to prebook a spot online before arriving in the Bronx. The reservation page sells from a dated event calendar rather than by the hour, which is why the booking happens before the mode question is even settled.

The calendar lists every event by name, date and start time, with a filter for Baseball, Soccer and Other. In September 2026 it carried Yankees first pitches at 7:05 p.m., 1:35 p.m. and 3:20 p.m. alongside New York City FC matches at 7:30 p.m., all sold from the same four facilities. Above the calendar sit three service options: Self Park, Bus Parking and Van Parking. Two of the three carry a posted rate. Drivers still weighing the car against the train can work that through in the breakdown of how to reach Yankee Stadium by subway, rail or road.

The permit format is the detail that catches people at the barrier. City Parking’s booking dialog states that the confirmation email includes a link to your barcoded parking permit, which you must print and bring to the facility with you, and warns that the message, sent from [email protected], may land in a spam folder. A printed sheet is the published format. Nothing on the page offers a phone screen as an equivalent.

Availability is a live question rather than a settled one. The Yankees direct fans to the reservation page or to (718) 588-7817 throughout the season for lot availability, which is the club saying plainly that a posted rate secures a price and not a space. Combine that with the absent drive-up rate and the position is clear enough: at Yankee Stadium the reservation is not a saving, it is the only published way to know there is a space.

What moves between a Yankees game, an NYCFC match and October

The $49 self park rate at Yankee Stadium does not move between a baseball game, a soccer match and a postseason date, per City Parking. What moves is the clock the garage has to feed, and the capacity warning the Yankees attach to the calendar’s far end.

Gates typically open 90 minutes before the scheduled first pitch for most games, with opening times varying for inclement weather, doubleheaders and special events, per Yankee Stadium. A 7:05 p.m. first pitch therefore opens the gates at 5:35 p.m., a 7:30 p.m. New York City FC match shifts the same chain 25 minutes later, and a 1:35 p.m. Sunday game drags it into the middle of the afternoon. The garage does not change. The hour a driver has to be in it does.

Monument Park sharpens the difference between the two sports. The club keeps it accessible from the gate opening until 45 minutes before a scheduled Yankees start, warning that the line can close earlier than the Park itself, while at New York City FC matches the cutoff falls to 15 minutes prior. A soccer ticket buys half an hour more slack on the same gate clock, and that half hour is the buffer a garage arrival eats first.

October rewrites the advice outright. Ticketed fans at postseason games are advised to arrive early and via public transportation, the 164th Street Garage is expected to reach capacity quickly, and Premium Parking Pass holders may be directed to park in other lots, with the pass also accepted at Ruppert Plaza, 161st Street and River Avenue. One number never appears in any of it: neither the club nor City Parking publishes a lot opening or a lot closing time in the Bronx. MetLife Stadium, which runs its own lots, publishes that they typically open 5 hours before an event and close 2 hours after it ends, checked August 2026. The absence of an equivalent figure is why the drive home is planned from a timetable, as set out in leaving Yankee Stadium after the last out, and not from a lot, which is the opposite of the problem in leaving MetLife Stadium after a game or concert.

Booking notes the two Yankee Stadium issuers put in writing

Each item below comes from a page the Yankees or City Parking published in September 2026, and each one changes which of the four garages gets booked.

• Book by address, never by ramp number. Drivers are told by City Parking to enter the specific lot or garage address into their GPS, and that operator’s northbound exit 3 does not match the Exit 4 or Exit 5 the Yankees publish.
• Print the permit before leaving. The booking dialog states the emailed barcoded permit must be printed and brought to the facility, and the message arrives from [email protected].
• Only Gerard Avenue prices a bus. The lot at 1011 Gerard Avenue posts $325 for a bus alongside the same $49 self park as the other three, per City Parking.
• The recommended list is shorter than the priced list. The Yankees recommend Ruppert Plaza, 161st Street and River Avenue; City Parking prices those three plus Gerard Avenue.
• Van Parking has no posted price. It appears as a service option on the reservation page beside Self Park and Bus Parking, and the number for a quote is (718) 588-7817.
• Availability is a phone call, all season. The Yankees send fans to the reservation page or (718) 588-7817 throughout the season for lot availability, which no posted rate guarantees.

Six ways a Bronx garage plan comes apart at the barrier

Six failure points, each measured against a rule the Yankees or City Parking published in September 2026 rather than against a rule of thumb.

• Pinning the drive to an exit number. Northbound, the club publishes Exit 4 and Exit 5 while the operator publishes exit 3, so a plan built on a ramp is built on the one fact the issuers dispute.
• Hunting a cheaper garage on the next block. The seven City Parking facilities are separated on the operator’s own page from unaffiliated operators of area parking lots, whose rates neither City Parking nor the club publishes.
• Arriving with the permit on a screen. The booking dialog says the barcoded permit must be printed and brought to the facility, and offers no alternative format.
• Booking October without reading the advisory. The 164th Street Garage is expected to reach capacity quickly, Premium Parking Pass holders may be redirected, and the club advises arriving early by public transportation.
• Assuming a published closing time. No lot opening or closing hour appears from either Yankee Stadium issuer, unlike the 5 hours before and 2 hours after that MetLife Stadium publishes for its own lots.
• Budgeting a drive-up saving. Only $49 self park is posted by City Parking, with no separate gate rate, so any figure for paying on arrival comes from outside both issuers.

Editorial note: prices, schedules, and policies on this page were checked against the official sources named in the text in September 2026. Venues, airports, and transit agencies change them without notice; confirm with the operator before you travel. Westchester Ride does not sell tickets or parking and does not accept payment to rank any operator.

Parking questions fans ask about Yankee Stadium

Six questions answered against what City Parking and the Yankees published in September 2026, including the $49 self park rate, the $325 bus rate and the two northbound exits the issuers do not share.

Four garages, one rate, and the only lever a driver holds is which street the car ends up on. Booking early does not lower the $49 and booking late does not raise it, so the reservation buys a position rather than a price. That position is fixed the moment an address is typed into City Parking’s calendar, which means the Bronx settles its parking argument hours before anyone reaches the Major Deegan.

Related guides

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• Getting to Yankee Stadium from Westchester by rail or road
• Choosing between the subway, Metro-North and the car
• What the Bronx gate check lets through, size by size
• Getting out of the Bronx after the last out
• Every New York area stadium and arena, compared