nycwriter
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Also Durango ...
I assure you Long Island is nowhere near "10 minutes" from Manhattan. Maybe if you're Samantha Stevens and you can just wiggle your nose and zap yourself there. It takes 10 minutes to wait for the nearest subway train to arrive. Going out to Long Island -- if you don't have a car -- is at least a half-day endeavor (literally) that involves getting yourself to Penn Station (which, depending on where you are in Manhattan can take up to 30 minutes). 10 minutes to walk through the maze and chaos of Penn Station to the even more chaoitic LIRR (Long Island Rail Road) area. 10 minutes to look at the map just to figure out which of the eight or so lines you're taking. Another 10 minutes to buy a ticket. Upwards of 30 minutes to wait for the next departing train. It's now been an hour and a half and your train hasn't even left Penn Station yet! And Long Island really is that ... LONG. Depending on where you're going, it can take as little as 15 minutes on the LIRR (and that's not really to "Long Island" ... that's still Queens!), or, if you're going out to the Hamptons -- 110 miles from Midtown -- it can take 2 hours. Splitting the difference and going to a nearby town like Rockville Center or Hicksville, its about 35 minutes.
Now it gets really interesting. Your train arrives, say, at Hicksville (half hour to Penn, 40 minutes buying ticket and waiting for train, and 35 minutes to Hicksvile -- total time to make the trip out there is 1 hour, 45 minutes). It's a station in a suburban setting (they all pretty much are). Unless you're a commuter FROM Long Island (which I'm not -- I'm a Manhattanite VISITING Long Island), you now have two options to get to your final destination: jitney cab, or walk. Your round-trip LIRR ticket just cost you at least $22. The jitney will cost you at least another $20 round-trip.
Bottom line, as you can see, going to a store in Long Island, for a Manhattanite, is about as convenient as going to a store in Pittsburgh. Actually, Pittsburgh is at least theoretically quicker; hop a cab to LaGuardia (30 minutes or so), 45-minute flight to Pittsburgh, 15 minute cab to downtown.
And we don't do Bronx. We just don't.
I assure you Long Island is nowhere near "10 minutes" from Manhattan. Maybe if you're Samantha Stevens and you can just wiggle your nose and zap yourself there. It takes 10 minutes to wait for the nearest subway train to arrive. Going out to Long Island -- if you don't have a car -- is at least a half-day endeavor (literally) that involves getting yourself to Penn Station (which, depending on where you are in Manhattan can take up to 30 minutes). 10 minutes to walk through the maze and chaos of Penn Station to the even more chaoitic LIRR (Long Island Rail Road) area. 10 minutes to look at the map just to figure out which of the eight or so lines you're taking. Another 10 minutes to buy a ticket. Upwards of 30 minutes to wait for the next departing train. It's now been an hour and a half and your train hasn't even left Penn Station yet! And Long Island really is that ... LONG. Depending on where you're going, it can take as little as 15 minutes on the LIRR (and that's not really to "Long Island" ... that's still Queens!), or, if you're going out to the Hamptons -- 110 miles from Midtown -- it can take 2 hours. Splitting the difference and going to a nearby town like Rockville Center or Hicksville, its about 35 minutes.
Now it gets really interesting. Your train arrives, say, at Hicksville (half hour to Penn, 40 minutes buying ticket and waiting for train, and 35 minutes to Hicksvile -- total time to make the trip out there is 1 hour, 45 minutes). It's a station in a suburban setting (they all pretty much are). Unless you're a commuter FROM Long Island (which I'm not -- I'm a Manhattanite VISITING Long Island), you now have two options to get to your final destination: jitney cab, or walk. Your round-trip LIRR ticket just cost you at least $22. The jitney will cost you at least another $20 round-trip.
Bottom line, as you can see, going to a store in Long Island, for a Manhattanite, is about as convenient as going to a store in Pittsburgh. Actually, Pittsburgh is at least theoretically quicker; hop a cab to LaGuardia (30 minutes or so), 45-minute flight to Pittsburgh, 15 minute cab to downtown.
And we don't do Bronx. We just don't.