Where Can I Store My Luggage In Times Square?

The searcher reading this page is usually standing in the middle of the block with the bag and a show to get to. That is the honest starting point. Times Square is the densest corner of the site's whole New York inventory: 44 storage points sit within 800 m of the square's geocoded anchor, more than any other area this site publishes, and 42 of them publish their opening hours. The catch, and it is the same catch everywhere in this city, is that zero of those 44 points is a locker. Every single one is a staffed counter inside a shop, a cafe or a hotel lobby, run by Radical Storage's local partners.

That distinction matters more here than anywhere else, because the theatre district is where people arrive with a suitcase and the least slack in their schedule. A locker you walk up to and punch a code into. A staffed counter has a person, a queue and a closing time, and the person may need a minute to log your bag into a system. None of that is a problem when you plan for it. All of it is a problem when you discover it at 7:15 pm with a 7:30 pm curtain.

Where Can I Store My Luggage In Times Square?

The practical answer is a staffed bag-drop counter within a few blocks of the square, booked in advance, at a typical $4.90 per bag per day plus a $1.99 per-bag checkout fee. There are 44 such points within 800 m of Times Square, rated 4.79 across 2,400 reviews, and 42 of them publish hours. There are no lockers anywhere in the district, and no transport hub nearby offers storage either.

The inventory is genuinely deep. With 44 points inside an 800 m radius, you can usually find one on the same block as your theatre or a block from your hotel, and the spread of point types, shops, cafes, convenience stores, delivery services, hotels and restaurants, means the hours and the vibe vary a lot from one to the next. Some are open late because they are attached to businesses that trade into the evening. Some close with the shopfront they live in. The 42 points that publish hours let you check this before you commit, which is the single most useful filter on the list.

One expectation to set before you book: you choose an area and a point, but the exact street address is confirmed through the booking. A recent review on Trustpilot, where Radical Storage is rated 4.2 out of 5, complains that the company "refuses to share even an approximate storage address until AFTER you've paid". Treat that as normal. You are booking a point in the Times Square cluster, and the address arrives with the confirmation, not before.

If the square itself is your anchor, the Times Square cluster is the obvious pick, and you can Check availability alongside the site's own Times Square bag drop guide. The two alternatives in that band exist for a reason. Central Park's cluster, 33 points within 800 m of the park anchor, includes two genuinely cheaper points at $2.90 per bag per day, at the 72 St Subway Station and at Cathedral Pkwy / 110 St, and nowhere else in the city. Brooklyn's 11 points suit anyone whose day ends across the river rather than in midtown.

How Much Does It Cost To Store A Bag Near Times Square?

Expect $4.90 per bag per day at the typical Times Square point, plus a $1.99 per-bag fee at checkout, so one bag for one day comes to $6.89 all in. Radical Storage advertises a $2.90 starting rate, but its own New York page now disclaims that as a floor, and 94.4 percent of the city's point cards show $4.90.

That $2.90 figure deserves a paragraph of honesty because you will see it advertised. Radical Storage's own New York page now carries this wording: "Prices start from $2.90 per bag. This is the lowest currently available city price, not a promise that every location or bag category has the same rate." That is the operator telling you, in its own words, that the advertised number is not the number you will pay. The same page even contradicts itself, printing "from $4.90/day" in its hero and "from $2.90" in its body. In Times Square, plan on $4.90.

The arithmetic is simple and worth doing before you tap a card. One bag, one day: $4.90 plus $1.99, which is $6.89. Three days: $4.90 times three, plus the single $1.99 fee, which is $16.69. The fee is per bag, so two bags for one day is $13.78. There is no hourly tier at these points; the day rate is the unit, and if you cross midnight or stretch into a second day, the second day's rate applies.

Here is how the nearby clusters compare on the numbers that matter, using each area's own published figures:

Every cluster in that table charges the same typical rate and adds the same $1.99 per-bag checkout fee, so price alone almost never separates one area from another. What separates them is density, hours and where your day actually happens. Times Square wins on density and on evening trading. Central Park wins on price, but only at its two northern points. Penn Station wins on rating depth, and Brooklyn wins only if Brooklyn is already on your route.

For comparison, the one true left-luggage counter inside a Manhattan transport hub, Amtrak's bag storage at Penn Station, charges $20 per item per 24 hours for Amtrak customers and $30 for the general public with photo ID. A Times Square bag drop at $6.89 is roughly a quarter of the general-public price, and it sits closer to most theatres than Penn does. The trade is that the Amtrak counter is inside a station and these are shops.

Are The Storage Points Near The Theatres Open Late?

Mostly yes, but check the published hours before you book, because 42 of the 44 Times Square points publish them and two do not. Theatre district points attached to shops and cafes tend to trade into the evening; the reliable move is to pick a point whose hours comfortably cover both your drop-off time and your pick-up time, with an hour of slack on each end.

The schedule that actually governs your evening is the curtain, not the storage point. Broadway houses seat evening audiences around 7:00 pm or 8:00 pm, and the Nederlander Organization's theatres publish a bag rule that makes storage close to non-negotiable: "All bags will be inspected upon arrival. Bags larger than 20"x14"x9" cannot be checked or allowed inside the theatre. Luggage is prohibited." That rule was verified word for word on the Nederlander, Lunt-Fontanne and Gershwin pages. Luggage is not merely discouraged; the prohibited-items list on those pages ends with the single word "Luggage".

So the shape of a theatre evening is fixed: drop the bag at a point within walking distance of the house, walk to the theatre with whatever fits the size rule, collect the bag after the show. A point that closes at 8:00 pm is useless for an 8:00 pm curtain with an 11:00 pm pick-up. This is why the published-hours filter matters more in Times Square than in any other cluster on the site. If your plans run later still, the site's late night and 24 hour storage guide covers the points that trade around the clock.

What Can You Not Leave In A Stored Bag Near Times Square?

Electronics are the headline prohibition: Radical Storage's terms list "Technological material (iPhone, iPad, Tablet, PC, smartphones)" among prohibited items, and storing a prohibited item voids the entire guarantee claim. Flammable materials, alcohol, firearms and perishables are banned at staffed counters generally. Cash, keys and documents should stay on your person as a matter of sense rather than policy.

The guarantee is worth understanding before you hand over a bag, and the site keeps a full breakdown of what the Radical Storage guarantee actually covers. The short version: the terms cap cover at EUR 3,000 per bag, the terms call it a guarantee and not insurance, and claims run on tight deadlines, one week to file and 48 hours for a police report. The marketing pages throw around a $10,000 figure, sometimes written as EUR 10,000 on the very same page, but that number appears nowhere in the terms themselves.

The practical reading for a Times Square trip is straightforward. A suitcase of clothes is exactly what these counters are for. A laptop bag is not, and neither is the shopping bag of fragile souvenirs you want to insure for its full value. Take the phone and the laptop to the show in a small bag that fits the theatre rule, and store the clothes. Other pages covering the same trip are gathered on Luggage Storage Lockers in New York City.

Is Walking To Your Storage Point With A Big Bag A Problem?

Legally, no: the subway has no suitcase size limit, and the only dimension in the MTA rulebook, thirty inches, applies to wheeled carts, not luggage. The rules that do bite are behavioural, and they carry real fines: $75 for an obstructive object, $50 for blocking a seat, $100 for obstructing traffic. In the theatre district you will mostly be walking, and the crowds, not the rules, are the real constraint.

The MTA's own rider guide puts it plainly: "Don't travel with more than you can carry on your own, and avoid rush hour if you're transporting something big. Make space for other riders and don't block doors, stairs, or passageways." That is the agency's advice, not this site's, and it is the best argument for storing the bag early in the day rather than dragging it through the evening crush on the district's sidewalks. The full set of rules is covered in the site's guide to taking luggage on the subway and commuter rail.

If your bag is genuinely oversized, hard-shelled or non-standard, read the site's bag size, weight and oversized item rules before you book, because a staffed counter can decline an item a locker cannot. And if your day involves a game or a concert rather than a show, Madison Square Garden's published rule is blunt: bags larger than 22" x 14" x 9" are prohibited, and "Madison Square Garden does not provide an area to check bags, coats or any other personal belongings." The Garden sits about ten blocks south of the square, and its nearest storage points are the same midtown cluster.

What If You Are Storing A Bag On A Hotel Day?

Ask your own hotel first, because a hotel that holds bags for its guests before check-in and after check-out is the cheapest option in the district, often free. But no New York hotel publishes a policy for non-guests, and the closest thing to an answer is one property's own rule: the New Yorker charges $5 per bag for registered guests only. There is no city-wide norm, and a non-guest has no entitlement.

The named examples are instructive because they disagree. Broadway Plaza Hotel, in the theatre district itself, publishes the most complete policy found anywhere: storage before check-in and on the day of departure only, no overnight, two bags free per guest, and $5.00 per bag after that. Franklin Guesthouse in Brooklyn has its bellmen hold bags for guests around check-out so they can explore. Fitzpatrick Hotels publishes check-in and check-out times and says nothing about bags at all, which is what most hotels do, and is exactly why "ask your own hotel" is the honest advice rather than "hotels will hold it".

If you are not staying anywhere, the staffed counters are your option, and they do not care whether you have a reservation in the city. That is the real advantage of the 44-point cluster over every courtesy service: a bag drop is a transaction, open to anyone, priced per day, with published hours. The site's hotel check-in and checkout times guide has the named properties and their published times.

Which Nearby Area Should You Pick If Times Square Is Full?

Central Park's cluster is the value alternative: 33 points within 800 m of the park anchor, and two of them, at the 72 St Subway Station and Cathedral Pkwy / 110 St, charge $2.90 per bag per day, the only cheaper points in the city. Brooklyn's 11 points suit a day that ends across the river. Midtown Manhattan's 16 points and Penn Station's 27 overlap heavily with the Times Square inventory geographically.

The Central Park saving is real but specific. At $2.90 per day plus the $1.99 fee, one bag for one day costs less than the Times Square rate of $6.89, and the gap widens over multiple days. The catch is geography: those two cheaper points sit at the north end of the park, a long way from the theatres, so the saving buys you a subway ride. For a day that pairs a morning in the park with an evening show, though, dropping the bag at 72 St and picking it up on the way down makes sense.

Brooklyn belongs in the conversation only when Brooklyn is where your day actually happens. Its 11 points are thinner than Midtown Manhattan's 16, and the rating pool is smaller too, 4.82 across 79 reviews, though on a per-point basis that is a strong cluster. What Brooklyn does not have is a theatre-district adjacency, so treat it as the last-day option, the luggage-is-already-going-that-way option, not the show-night option.

For most readers, the answer loops back to where this page started: the Times Square cluster is the deepest in the city, the points sit between your hotel and your curtain, and the whole transaction, $6.89 for a day, costs less than a program and a bag of M&Ms at intermission. Book the point whose hours cover your evening, keep the phone and the laptop with you, and walk to the theatre light.

Common Questions About Storing Luggage In Times Square

times square lockers

There are no lockers in Times Square. All 44 storage points within 800 m of the square are staffed counters in shops, cafes, hotels and other businesses. This is true of every Radical Storage point in New York City: zero of the 178 points across the network is a locker.

Where can I store my luggage in Times Square?

At one of the 44 staffed bag-drop points within 800 m of the square, bookable in advance at a typical $4.90 per bag per day plus a $1.99 checkout fee. Pick a point whose published hours cover both your drop-off and pick-up times.

How much does it cost to store a bag near Times Square?

One bag for one day costs $6.89 all in: $4.90 for the day plus the $1.99 per-bag checkout fee. For three days, one bag costs $16.69, because the fee is charged once per bag rather than per night.

Can I bring a suitcase into a Broadway theatre?

Not into a Nederlander house. The organization's theatres publish the rule that bags larger than 20"x14"x9" cannot be checked or allowed inside, and that luggage is prohibited. Shubert publishes no bag rule at all, so policies vary by theatre owner.

Are the Times Square storage points open late?

Many are, because they sit inside businesses that trade into the evening, but hours vary by point. 42 of the 44 points publish their hours, so check them against your curtain time and pick-up plan before booking.

Can I store electronics in my bag near Times Square?

No. Radical Storage's terms list technological material, including phones, tablets and PCs, among prohibited items, and storing a prohibited item voids the entire guarantee claim. Carry your electronics with you and store the clothes.