<human>: Can you give me the gist of the text in a nutshell?

I am in some need of serious guidance here and don't have many people that I can turn to. I keep trying to get on track but when I look at the amount of debt I am in and the time it will take to recover it daunts me and I fall deeper. 

Currently my credit score is at 571 and I would say I am roughly 10k in debt. I need serious guidance and am struggling to find the light at the end of the tunnel and the tools to get there. 

I moved to NYC two years ago. I naively brought a car up here, mid-late 2000's Jeep of sorts. My monthly payment for the garage is $300 (yes I know, that is absurd) with a $50 late fee tacked on. 

End of 2012 I missed a payment. Ashamed and unable to make the payment (but really didn't prioritize to make the payment) I continued to go month after month without paying. Eventually a boot was put on my car which was an additional fee. I had to pay everything up front to get the boot removed plus fee to remove the boot. Long story short, it is now almost August 2014, my car has been booted for nearly 20 months now and I owe well over 7.5K. 

I have a job but it is just enough to pay the bills and I have student loans, rent, utilities, and the annoying over-priced cost of living in NYC that keep making this problem grow larger. 

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. I don't have support from my family and don't know what to do at this point.
<bot>: Credit score 571 - car has been booted in NYC Parking garage since Dec. 12' and I owe 7.5K. HEEEEELP