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This page explains in depth how to park at one of the Largest Record, DVD and CD Stores on the East Coast. If you are coming to buy music and movies from us, please continue to the bold text below.

If you have a large collection to sell to our CD store, please first call 609-924-3472 to discuss a convenient time to visit and place to park, so we can unload your collection with minimal inconvenience to you.

If you'd like to see a downloadable, visual parking map view our CD Stores parking map.

The new 500 Space parking deck has just opened within 200 feet of our LP, DVD Store and CD Store (on 20 South Tulane St), and offers easy access to our store and other downtown Princeton stores and restaurants. This parking deck is the closest and easiest option, but there is plenty of street parking as you get further away from our store as well. Other municipal parking garages are located on Hulfish Street (between Chamber St. and Witherspoon St.) and on Chamber St.

When Selling large collections of CDs, DVDs & LPs in Princeton: Please pull up as close to our store as possible on South Tulane Street, put on your flashers and come into the store or call us 609-921-0881. We will come out and review your collection with you. Afterwards, if we bring your collection into the store, please use the second option below, or park on the streets in Princeton.

First Option: Entrance one (from Wiggins Street):

Take Vandeventer Street, the extension of Route 571/ Washington Road after crossing Nassau St. (Route 27).

Vandeventer Street ends and make a left on Wiggins Street.

The entrance to the Spring Street Garage will be one and a half blocks down on your left.

Second Option: Alternative Entrance one (from Wiggins Street): to enter the parking deck, turn off of Nassau St. (Route 27) and drive past our CD store on 20 South Tulane Street.

Road ends and make right on Spring Street

30 feet and quick left onto North Tulane St.

one block, road ends, make left onto Wiggins St.

The entrance to the Spring Street Garage will be one half a block down on your left.

Third Option: Entrance two: (from Spring Street):

Take Witherspoon St. from Nassau Street.

Make your first right onto Spring St.

The entrance to the Spring Street Garage will be one half a block down on your left.

Parking is Free for the first 30 minutes.. After thirty minutes, the parking rate is $1 per hour, except .25 cents per 2 hours on Sunday. You have the option to pay three different ways.

You may pay with most major credit cards. The same card must be used when you enter and exit.

You may pay with a Smart Card. It operates much like a debit card, and may be recharged with a 10 percent discount each time. The Smart Card is currently available at the Wiggins Street Entrance and Exit, the new Princeton Public Library (adjacent to parking lot on Witherspoon Street), or Princeton Boro Hall (past Nassau Street Stores going west). It will soon be available at the Spring Street Entrance, which is closest to our dvd and cd store.

Pay cash at the cash machine located near the exit

2 Hour Parking Meters For Our CD Store, DVD Store & Record Store

There are many two hour meters on the main streets near our CD Store on: Nassau Street and Witherspoon Street. Princeton Borough also has 2-hour parking available on the following down-town residential streets. The 2-hour restriction applies from 8am to 6pm.

Alexander Street (between Mercer and Dickinson streets)
Chestnut Street (between Nassau St. and Hamilton Ave.)
Cleveland Lane
Franklin Avenue
Green Street
Greenview Avenue
Hawthorne Avenue
Hodge Road
Humbert Street
John Street
Library Place
Maclean Street
Madison Street
Moore Street
Pine Street
Princeton Avenue
Prospect Avenue (a portion of)
Quarry Street
Spruce Street
Stockton Street (between Nassau and Library Place)
Wiggins Street (runs parallel to Nassau St.)

More Parking For Our Record, DVD & CD Store

Here is your guide to Princeton's parking areas, both metered and non-metered. This text will help guide the Princeton visiting record collector to the parking space needed, as well as to Princeton's unique blend of fine stores or sampling some of the varied cuisine, or visiting its many historic sites.

There are hundreds of two hour meters in downtown Princeton's busiest areas and on the outskirts of the central business district you can, at lower rates, park at the long-term meters and walk into the center of town.

Other Parking Garages Within 3 Blocks of Our Record, DVD & CD Store:

There are two other parking garages, which provide long-term and overnight parking, are within 1000 feet:

The Palmer Square Parking Garage, located on Palmer Street
And the Hulfish Street Parking Garage, located on Hulfish Street, which is accessible from either Chamber St. or Witherspoon St.

More Parking Options

Princeton's Central Business District is most active in the early afternoon. Parking spaces for the CD and record collector (especially if you have a large collection to sell) are more readily available before 11:00 a.m. and after 2:30 p.m. If your visit coincides with the town's busiest hours, the most accessible parking can be found at the garages or on the outlying streets. On these streets there are usually metered parking spaces available. Five and ten hour metered parking spaces are often available on Witherspoon Street just north of Wiggins Street.

There is also free parking after 5:00 p.m. weekdays, and all day Saturday and Sunday to consider parking either in the two university lots off William St., or you can park at Princeton Borough Hall (Where Route 206 and 27 come together).

Public Transportation To Our CD Store, DVD Store & Record Store

Train and bus services for the CD and record collector connect New York City, Philadelphia, Trenton and New Brunswick to Princeton. All trains arrive at Princeton Junction, where travelers can board the "Dinky" for a five minute direct shuttle ride to Princeton. The center of town is a few short blocks north of the Princeton Borough Dinky Station.

Frequent bus service for the CD and record collector is also available. Suburban Transit connects from the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City and from New Brunswick. New Jersey Transit connects from Trenton, Mercerville and Lawrenceville. Both stop at Palmer Square in the heart of the Business District.

Various limousine and taxi services provide service for the record collector from and to Newark, Philadelphia and JFK Airports. Arrival and departures are from the east side of the Nassau Inn and the Nassau Street taxi stand (As well as a few Route 1 hotels.)

Value Pass at Palmer Square Garages 20-30% Off Parking

The Value Pass program is for the downtown Princeton parking garages. The Shopper and Dinner Value Pass is a pre-paid card that affords the record collector 20% to 30% discount. The Value Pass allows 24-hour access to both the Chambers Street and Hulfish Street Garages.

For information please call 609-934-7629 or stop by the Chambers Street Garage Office.

Please note, Princeton Borough enforces all parking regulations. Metered parking regulations are enforced Monday through Saturday 8:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m.

We look forward to seeing you at Princeton Record Exchange, one of the largest New Jersey CD Stores