Affiliate Disclosure

Money enters this guide from exactly one place: a commission, paid when a reader reserves storage through a Radical Storage link. Radical Storage sets the prices, and the rate on most New York cards is $4.90 per bag per day, with a $1.99 fee per bag added at checkout, making one bag for one day $6.89. Booking directly with a storage point, or through any other service, pays this guide nothing.

One Income Stream

The money behind this guide is simple to state. When a bag drop is reserved through a Radical Storage link, Radical Storage pays this site a commission. Readers are never charged directly and no payment passes through the site; income comes from those commissions and nothing else. That is also why every price here is quoted from Radical Storage's published figures rather than rounded down to look cheaper.

Your bag is handed to a stranger, so the honesty bar is high. The Radical Storage Guarantee is not insurance, and its own terms say so in clause 9.2.2. The binding figure is EUR 3,000 per claim under clause 9, not the larger number in the marketing. Clause 7 matters even more: it lists technological material, from smartphones to a PC, among items Radical Storage does not accept, and a prohibited item in the bag voids the claim for everything else in it.

Pricing, Payments And Drop-Offs

Every rate quoted here is Radical Storage's, not this guide's. Of the 178 New York point cards, 168 show $4.90 per bag per day, and a $1.99 fee per bag is added at checkout, so a single bag for a single day comes to $6.89, not the day rate alone. Keep that bag for three days and the total is $16.69, because the fee is charged once per bag rather than once per night. The $2.90 figure Radical Storage advertises appears on only ten of those 178 cards.

This guide stores nothing. It runs no counter, no facility and no drop-off desk anywhere in the five boroughs; it publishes research and sends readers to Radical Storage. Each point on Radical Storage's New York map is a separate partner business, a hotel front desk, a shop, a cafe, and the handover is to a person who tags the bag and keeps it behind the counter. Not one of those 178 points is a locker, whatever the domain name suggests. Behind every drop sits the Radical Storage Guarantee, worth up to €3,000 per claim under clause 9 of the terms, and the limits in that clause are worth reading before anything valuable is left.

How The Money Works

• The commission is the sole revenue here. A reader who reserves through a Radical Storage link pays Radical Storage's published price, $4.90 per bag per day on most New York cards plus a $1.99 fee per bag at checkout, and part of that payment returns to this guide. No bag is stored, charged or handled on the site itself.
• Radical Storage advertises $2.90 per bag per day, yet 168 of its 178 New York point cards show $4.90, so $4.90 is the rate a reader should expect. A $1.99 fee per bag is added at checkout. One bag for one day works out to $6.89, and three days with one bag is $16.69, because the fee is charged once per bag rather than per night.
• Terms beat marketing on every figure. Clause 9.2.2 of Radical Storage's conditions says the Guarantee is not a contract of insurance, and clause 9 fixes its value at €3,000 per claim, not the larger number in the advertising. Clause 7 lists technological material, smartphones and a PC among them, as prohibited, and a prohibited item voids the claim on the whole bag.
• Of the three Port Authority airports, only JFK publishes storage inside a terminal: a staffed Smarte Carte counter that publishes no rate. LaGuardia and Newark Liberty list no storage service of their own, so readers departing from either are pointed toward Radical Storage points in the city instead.
• Every rating and review count appearing on this guide belongs to Radical Storage's own point pages, and the figure of 178 storage points across New York City comes from the network's map. This guide runs no rating system of its own and never presents a partner's number as its own finding.

How This Guide Gets Its Numbers

Every dollar figure quoted here traces back to Radical Storage's published New York prices. Of the 178 point cards, 168 show $4.90 per bag per day and only 10 show $2.90, and a $1.99 fee per bag is added at checkout, so one bag for one day is $6.89 all in rather than the day rate alone. The $2.90 figure Radical Storage advertises is treated as marketing, not the rate to expect. Ratings belong to Radical Storage, never to this guide, and a point with no rating yet is described exactly that way rather than filled in with an invented number.

Every price here comes from Radical Storage's own New York point records, and opening hours come from each storage point's own published entry, since hours vary by location and are often ordinary shop hours. The $2.90 figure Radical Storage advertises appears only beside the ten New York points that actually charge it; the other 168 show $4.90. Where a point's record has no figure for something, the page writes around the gap rather than guessing one.

Sources For Every Claim

This guide makes no claim its sources do not support. There are no invented walking times, no theft statistics, no bag dimensions lifted from one venue and applied to another, and no locker banks described at hubs where operators publish none. The guarantee figure is EUR 3,000 per claim, taken from Radical Storage's terms, which also list prohibited items, among them phones, tablets and PCs, that cannot be stored at all. Comparisons with Amtrak's staffed Penn Station counter use Amtrak's own published rates and limits.

A price or an opening hour that looks wrong is worth flagging. Send a note. How this guide sources its figures is laid out on the about page.