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Members-Only Dog Parking Comes to Brooklyn (No, Really)

By Rachel Holliday Smith | January 22, 2016 4:45pm | Updated on January 24, 2016 4:29pm
 A new temperature-controlled, locked box called
A new temperature-controlled, locked box called "Dog Parker" is setting up in front of stores in Brooklyn to allow members to keep their dogs inside while they run errands.
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So, you have to make a coffee run but your favorite spot doesn’t allow pets inside.

You’ve got two options: tie your pooch to a pole and hope he doesn’t end up like Marley, the kidnapped King Charles Spaniel or, for 20 cents a minute, lock him in a temperature-controlled, members-only “dog parker” while you grab your pour-over.

That’s right!

Coming to a Brooklyn sidewalk near you: Dog Parker, a new parking system for dogs made possible by magnetically-locking, weatherproof containers. So far, they've been plopped in front of a supermarket, pastry shop, bodega, pet shop and gift store in Prospect Heights, Clinton Hill, Park Slope and Fort Greene, according to the company.

Dog Parker installed their first box outside the Fort Greene General Store on Dekalb Avenue last October and plan to roll out more this month, according to their website.

Members can reserve the boxes through the Dog Parker mobile app 15 minutes before owners plan to use them. The containers are cleaned regularly (staff monitor them using webcams installed inside) and all dogs who apply for a membership must be up-to-date on vaccines, the company said.

The new contraptions elicited a range of reactions online.

A shiba inu from Hawaii thinks the Dog Parker is “offensive”:

While a passerby outside the Met Foods supermarket on Vanderbilt Avenue in Prospect Heights made a no-comment comment:

“#Ineedthis,” declared a potential Dog Parker customer:

Futureworks, a subsidiary of the NYC Economic Development Corp., declared it a “cool hangout for hot dogs.”

And Barkpost nearly lost their minds with excitement: “It’s brilliant, I say, brilliant!”