Is NYC a good place to live when it comes to public transportation?

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NYC fan

It's about as good as it gets!

Fact: New York is the only major U.S. city in which the majority of residents do not own cars.

Fact: New York is the safest big city in the U.S.

The MTA has a vast web of trains and buses to cover just about every imaginable part of the five boroughs. Some trips aren't the most convenient (northeast Queens to southeast Queens, for example), but for the most part, it works beautifully.

It's cheap, it's fast, and it is fairly easy.

Between the subway, the buses, the SIRR, the LIRR, PATH, the AirTrain, NJ Transit, and Metro-North, New York makes it very easy to live here and get around via mass transit.

EDIT: As for where to live, all five boroughs have some good neighborhoods, some bad neighborhoods, and many average neighborhoods. I'd say Staten Island is LEAST convenient for mass transit. Manhattan is MOST convenient. The other three are still very convenient.

xajide

In the US, New York is definitely a world apart when it come to public transportation compared to all the other major cities.
If you live in New York City, especially in Manhattan, you have no problem reaching anything you need either on foot, by bus, subway, train or cab.
Even living around Manhattan you don't necessarily need a car. If you cannot afford Manhattan (and most college students I know can't), you can move to the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens or (nice for Jersey people) Hoboken or Jersey City.
Both those areas are connected to the Path train and you can get anywhere you want as well.

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Absolutely! It is very convenient to live just about anywhere in the city as long as you're close to public transportation. :)

alexandrian_va

Between the commuter train system from New jersey, Long Island, & Conn. and the NYC Subway system that goes almost everywhere in the five borough area, 24 hours a day, the public transportation system is perhaps the best in the United States.

harry k

The only places that I have found better public transit is in Japan and Hong Kong.

As far as the guy from Toronto, NYC transit is extensive, it's "complicated" because it's extensive. Being extensive makes it one of the BEST in the world. If it only had a few lines like Toronto, that would make it inadequate.

Honesty Hurts

one of the best in the world.

NYC Chutzpah

Public transport is wonderful here. I know many people who have lived here all their lives and have never learned how to drive.

sharaont

Definitely. New York is one of the cities with the best transportation and very convenient to travel around.

wachirasa

yes its probably the best place in the world Moscow may have a better Public Transport system, I've known people from New York that have never owned or driven a car in their life because they don't need one

The Wife

Yes it's got the best public transportation, you can get anywhere provided you have time - some places take twice as long to get to than if you just drove there.

Queen or Brooklyn isn't so bad...

Lizzie R.

NYC has excellent transportation at any time of day or night. The Upper East Side is the place to live if you can afford it!

Darjeeling Snow

I have checked both my snow globe and my crystal ball, and they both say that by 2010 the transportation in NYC will still be fantastic.
The best borough: Manhattan is fine and so is Brooklyn. The others:: idk !!

Dark and Stormy Night

If you want to live in Manhattan, forget about having a car, unless you want to pay a small fortune to garage it. Brooklyn and Queens residents rely mostly on mass transit to get to work in Manhattan. Unless of course if you work in Brooklyn or Queens. Check out Greenpoint, Brooklyn or Williamsburg There are a lot of young people settling there from out of state. Another good choice would be either Astoria, Queens or Bayside, Queens (close to the railroad which is a 20 min. ride into Penn Station).

John W

I wouldn't want to live in NY at all. It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. I like the views and some of the places to visit, but the trash, crime, crowds etc. are not so fun.

.:-{Zach}-:.

well personally i don't believe so because if you look at the subway map its pretty hard to find where you are or where you'll end up... you would probally have to live there awhile and take the same route over and over again before you get used to it. i am in Toronto and have visited new york and its also easier here than it is there. i hoped this helped.

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