Flushing 3 Municipal Parking Field

Out of all the municipal parking fields in the Flushing area, this one has to be the worst for a host of reasons. There is only 1 entrance and 1 exit off of 41^st Ave and you have to loop through to find a space or to get out and it’s only wide enough to get one car through the travel lane. If someone is waiting on a space, which is constant, you and everybody else behind are waiting also. At times some numbnuts gets it in his head to beat the system and comes in the exit and that totally screws everybody. Not to mention that the spaces are narrower than other lots, but there used to be 5 or 6 muni meters at the entrance and now there’s only one. Everybody is waiting for it and if you use a credit card it takes forever. You also have to be careful in the darker parts of the lot at night. All 4 of my wheel covers were stolen here once.
If you do end up parking here (sometimes you don’t have much of a choice), stay away from the spots facing the embankment leading up to the LIRR station. We pulled in one evening and my headlights were shining up on the hill. I noticed all these 3″ holes all over the hillside, wondering what they were and then I spotted them scurrying around. The whole hill is a massive rat warren! I can only imagine the maze of tunnels and the amount of rats under there. I really felt ill and quickly pulled my car out. «One star= Eek!» is so appropriate for this one.