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

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”:

#Offensive🐾🐕😡‼️ This outdoor kennel app let’s you “park” your #dog outside! Read more: https://t.co/F7DyLmvNM4 pic.twitter.com/WsuZxPxc7A

— Shiba_Inu_808 (@Shiba_Inu_808) January 3, 2016

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

Well this is happening in Prospect Heights. Anyone want to park their dog? pic.twitter.com/JLAizgRa0l

— OurBKSocial (@OurBKSocial) January 21, 2016

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

No more tying your dog outside a shop again because now there's a dog parking! #INeedThis pic.twitter.com/t8GPNO4Ots

— Sherly Septiani (@shrlys) December 19, 2015

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

"Hey dude! Do they serve cookies in there?!" Kudos to @dogparker_ for creating cool hangouts for hot dogs! pic.twitter.com/XFxZd0TdaB

— Futureworks NYC (@FutureworksNYC) December 28, 2015

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