NYC

[juldea]

Hey - those of the friends list that are familiar with New York City travel.

Londo and I will be leaving in a rental car at @2pm from Boston. We want to attend a concert in NYC (at the Knitting Factory) at 8pm. How do you suggest we get there? Drive the entire way - and in that case, what bridge to use, where to park, etc - or stop somewhere and take a train (or other) in?

Please help!

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Umm...why are you renting a car (much $$) and driving to NYC where parking is $$ to turn around again and drive back?

Seriously, if you don't have another reason for needing the car, you *won't* need it when you are in NYC; just take the bus or train to NYC and use the subway when you're there? Or does the car somehow end up being less money? Take the Fung Hwa bus or whatever it is called; they leave hourly from downtown Chinatown Boston, and will get you to Chinatown NYC, which is a whole 10 blocks from your destination. They're also like $20 or something.

If you *are* driving, fastest normal route is I-90 to I-84 to I-81 to I-95; after that, you want to get into Manhattan, which is very much like driving in a video game. Depending on which horrible route you want to take to get where you're going, you could take I-95 to I-278 (Bruckner) to either Willis Ave or the 3rd Ave Bridge to get across the Harlem River onto the FDR going south. Take this (the FDR) down the east side of NYC to the Manhattan Bridge exit (NOT the bridge); go West on this to Walker St., turn left on Church St., and left onto Leonard; it might be one-way the wrong way, dunno. Good luck, but you might manage to make it across town without getting diverted to Jersey. Also, you will NOT find parking for less than $20 from some schemey looking guy who will put your car in a back lot somewhere and with whom you will have to fight for a while to get it out again later.

Parking and taking the subway would be a good option if you weren't coming from the north. The places to park and go in the north are either suburbia (slow trains) or crappy neighborhoods (didn't we...park a car here?). Not recommended.

Take the bus. It'll be so much better.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Taking a bus is Out Of The Question due to the time limitations we have. The bus/train schedules don't accomodate us. We have to rent a car and drive.

It's sad, yes. :(

[laura47.livejournal.com]

it all depends on money. how much money are you willing to spend on parking? how much do you dislike public transit? what are you doing after the show?

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Um, y'know, I'd like to not pay more on parking than we do on the car itself. Heh. But, we do have a limited time frame, so having to rely on the schedules of public transit is bad. I like public transit fine - if it can get me where I want to go when I want to be there.

[tpau]

ther are garages in NYCthat are about $12 they are on West End and 68 or thereabouts. also ,ther eis street parking, you jsut have to look a bunch.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Yay $12!! I want that.