Big space for teaching someone to drive?

Does anyone know a good place in Brooklyn to teach someone to drive a stick shift?

Subject: Re: Big space for teaching someone to drive?

ynkyfan wrote: Does anyone know a good place in Brooklyn to teach someone to drive a stick shift?

At the end of Red Hook, by the ball fields and pool - those little side streets are wide and deserted later in the day

Also the parking lot at the Pathmark on Hamilton Ave gets pretty empty late in the evenings.

2nd Ave from 6th Street - 9th Street is pretty wide and quiet after about 7-8 p.m.

Someplace residential, relatively flat and without a lot of traffic. Midwood for example would be a good neighborhood.

at night time its a huge empty lot

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=ceasers+bay+brooklyn&jsv=117&sll=40.598964,-73.984682&sspn=0.011861,0.020835&ie=UTF8&latlng=40595146,-74000840,10118238779246502716&ei=_1JlSMqBGoqeqwLgpeDpDQ&cd=2

in a relatively safe area. plus the are has tons of side streets that is relatively traffic free.

Subject: Re: Big space for teaching someone to drive?

ynkyfan wrote: Does anyone know a good place in Brooklyn to teach someone to drive a stick shift?

I learned to drive in Red Hook, way back in the day before Ikea and traffic.

The Ikea parking lot when they're not open

The parking lot at Manhattan Beach. or Rockaway

Man, I learned to drive in DUMBO way back when. It was perfect since it was so deserted.

Subject: Re: Big space for teaching someone to drive?

ynkyfan wrote: Does anyone know a good place in Brooklyn to teach someone to drive a stick shift?

Floyd Bennett Field

caseopele wrote: Man, I learned to drive in DUMBO way back when. It was perfect since it was so deserted.

Hah, you are not alone in that respect:



(le piace? )

Hahaha, I totally forgot about that scene! Of course, my mom's 1983 Jeep Cherokee Laredo wasn't nearly as nice as that car.

Subject: Re: Big space for teaching someone to drive?

joncane wrote: [quote=ynkyfan]Does anyone know a good place in Brooklyn to teach someone to drive a stick shift?

Floyd Bennett Field

dont go there at night, its illegal , i nearly got a summons there once at night by a cop till i show him my pba card.

lowe's parking lot?

The parking lot at Riis beach - it's so absurdly large that even primetime on a summer weekend you have at least one huge area to yourself. And then you can go relax at the sea.

I think it's hard to learn stick on city streets; even when there's no traffic, pedestrians pop out between parked cars . . .

2nd ave. in Sunset Park, it's an industrial area that is empty on weekends.

I need someone to teach me a better way to parallel park on hills in the city. Right now I'm kind of riding the e-break until the clutch engages- parking in park slope with my five speed is enough to give me a panic attack. I've been driving a stick for 10 years (my entire driving history) and I still get nervous thinking of having to back into or out of a nyc-style parking spot (meaning people's bumpers being 2 inches from yours.)