Luggage storageCentral Park

Luggage storage and bag rules at Central Park

Central Park stretches between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side, a huge green break in the middle of Manhattan that millions of visitors cross or explore each year. The park itself provides no cloakrooms, left-luggage desks, or public lockers of any kind, so a bag you bring in stays with you the whole time.

That matters most at SummerStage events, where anything larger than 16 x 16 x 8 inches is turned away at the gate. The park is open daily from 6:00 am to 1:00 am, 365 days a year, and entry is free with no tickets or pre-bookings required for general access. With Stasher, you can store bags from $2.49 per bag per day at 20+ locations near Central Park.

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Getting to Central Park with luggage

The B and C lines run up Central Park West with stops at 72nd, 81st, 86th, 96th, 103rd, and 110th Streets, which puts you directly alongside the park. The 2 and 3 lines stop at 59th Street and Columbus Circle, as well as along Broadway at 72nd, 96th, and 110th Streets. The M10 bus also runs along Central Park West for a surface-level option right next to the park.

If you are coming through Times Square-42nd Street on the 1, 2, 3, 7, N, Q, R, W, or S lines, note that One Times Square itself bans suitcases, wheeled bags, hand luggage, coolers, and packages and has no coat check, so do not plan to leave anything there on the way.

Nearby attractions and their own bag rules

The Museum of Modern Art refuses luggage of any size or type and anything larger than 11 x 17 x 5 inches, and the 5 Avenue-53 St Station on the E and M lines sits directly across the street, so arriving by subway with a bag means finding storage before you reach the entrance.

The American Museum of Natural History at 200 Central Park West brings museum crowds to the park's western edge, and its own page covers what you can bring inside. Grand Central Terminal has no official luggage storage services, which catches travellers arriving on Metro-North or the Long Island Rail Road via Grand Central Madison before they continue toward the park.