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Aer Lingus 800-474-7424 n BWIA 800-538-2942 n Icelandair 800-223-5500 n SAS 800-221-2350 n Aeroflot 800-340-6400 n Cathay Pacific 800-233-2742 n n Israir 877-477-2471 n Saudi Arabian Airlines 800-472-8342 n Aerolineas 800-333-0276 n Chautauqua 800-428-4322 n n Japan Airlines 800-525-3663 n Silverjet 877-359-7458 n Aeromexico 800-237-6639 n China Airlines 800-227-5118 n Jet Blue 800-538-2583 n n n SN Brussels 516-622-2248 n Aerosvit Ukranian 212-661-1620 n China Eastern 866-588-0825 n KLM 800-374-7747 n n South African Airways 800-722-9675 n n n Air Canada 888-247-2262 n n n Colgan 800-428-4322 n Korean Air 800-438-5000 n Spirit 800-772-7117 n Air China 800-982-8802 n Comair 800-354-9822 n n n Kuwait Airways 800-458-9248 n Sun Country 800-359-6786 n Air France 800-237-2747 n n Constellation 866-484-2299 n Lacsa 800-225-2272 n Swiss Airlines 877-359-7947 n n

Air India 212-751-6200 n n Continental (domestic) 800-523-3273 n n n Lan Chile 800-735-5526 n TACA 800-535-8780 n

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Air Tahiti Nui 866-835-9286 n Corsair (seasonal) 800-677-0720 n LOT Polish 212-852-0240 n n Thai Airways 800-426-5204 n Air Tran 800-247-8726 n n Czech Airlines 800-223-2365 n n LTU 866-266-5588 n Travel Spain 800-817-6177 n

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Austrian Airlines 800-843-0002 n Eurofly 800-459-0581 n Northwest (international) 800-447-4747 n n Avianca 800-284-2622 n Eva Airways 800-695-1188 n Olympic 800-223-1226 n Azteca 212-289-6400 n n n Finnair 800-950-5000 n Qantas 800-227-4500 n n Biman Bangladesh 212-808-4477 n Frontier Airlines 800-432-1359 n n Royal Air Maroc 800-344-6726 n British Airways 800-247-9297 n n Iberia 800-772-4642 n Royal Jordanian 212-949-0050 n

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Terminal 6 D Station D Terminal 7 General Information Jamaica Station E J Z Address: JFK Expy LIRR Terminal 5 Jamaica, NY 11430 (closed) Phone: 718-244-4444 To JFK Expy 5 /6 7 Lost & Found: 718-244-4225 A Website: www.kennedyairport.com AirTrain: www.airtrainjfk.com AirTrain Phone: 718-570-1048 Terminal 8 Rail Road: www.mta.info/lirr Overview B 4 8 /9 Ah, JFK. It’s long been a nemesis to Manhattanites due to the fact that it’s the farthest of the three airports Terminal 4 from the city. Nonetheless, more than 32 million people go through JFK every year. A $9.5 billion expansion C and modernization program will transform the airport, with JetBlue taking about $900 million of that for its gigantic, 26-gate, new HQ to address the ten million of you who, in spite of JFK’s distance, wake up an hour Terminal 9 earlier to save a buck. Control Tower JetBlue’s new terminal rises just behind the landmark TWA building, which you should check out if you have D time to kill after getting up an hour earlier. Its bubbilicious curves make this 1950s gem a glam spaceship aptly prepared to handle any swanky NY soiree. Top that, Newark. 2 /3 C 1 Station C To Van Rental Cars (On-Airport) Federal Circle Wyck TerminalExpy 1 Rooftop The rental car offi ces are all located along the Van Wyck Expressway near the entrance to the airport. Just follow B Station B Parking Lefferts Blvd the signs. Long-Term Parking A, B 1 • Avis • 718-244-5406 or 800-230-4898 Terminal 3 2 • Budget • 718-656-6010 or 800-527-0700 A Station A 3 • Dollar • 718-656-2400 or 800-800-4000 Howard Beach A Terminal 2 AirTrain Stations for service to 5 • Enterprise • 718-659-1200 or 800-RENT-A-CAR Long-Term Parking C LIRR, NYC Subway 4 • Hertz • 718-656-7600 or 800-654-3131 AirTrain Route 6 • National • 718-632-8300 or 800-CAR-RENTAL AirTrain Inter-Terminal Connection Airline Terminal Airline Terminal Airline Terminal Airline Terminal Hotels Aer Lingus 4 BWIA 4 Iberia 7 Pakistan 4 Aerofl ot 1 Cathay Pacifi c 7 Icelandair 7 Qantas 7 Crown Plaza JFK • 151-20 Baisley Blvd • 718-489-1000 Aerolineas Argentinas4 Cayman Airways 1 Israir 4 Royal Air Maroc 1 Comfort Inn JFK • 144-36 153rd Ln • 718-977-0001 Aero Mexico 1 China Airlines 1 Japan Airlines 1 Royal Jordanian 4 Double Tree Club Hotel • 135-40 140th St • 718-276-2188 Aerosvit Ukrainian 4 China Eastern 1 Jet Airways 8 Saudi Arabian Holiday Inn JFK Airport • 144-02 135th Ave • 718-659-0200 Air Canada 7 Comair 3 Jetblue(San Juan) 4 Airlines 1 Ramada Plaza Hotel • Van Wyck Expy • 718-995-9000 Air China 1 Constellation 4 JetBlue Airways 6 Singapore 4 Air France 1 Continental 4 KLM 4 South African 4 Air India 4 Continental Express 4 Korean Air 1 SN Brussels Airlines 8 Car Services & Taxis Air Jamaica 4 Corsair (seasonal) 4 Kuwait Airways 4 Sun Country 4 AirPlus Comet 1 Copa Airlines 4 Lacsa 4 Swiss International 1 All County Express • 914-381-4223 or 800-914-4223 Air Tahiti Nui 4 Czech Airlines 4 Lan Chile 4 TACA International 4 Classic Limousine • 631-567-5100 or 800-666-4949 Alitalia 1 Delta 3 Lan Ecuador 4 TAM 4 Dial 7 Car & Limo Service • 212-777-7777 or 800-777-8888 Allegro (seasonal) 4 Egypt Air 4 Lan Peru 4 Thai Airways 4 American 8 El Al 4 LOT 4 Travel Span 4 Super Saver by Carmel • 800-922-7635 or 212-666-6666 American Eagle 8 Emirates 4 LTU 4 Turkish 1 Tel Aviv Limo Service • 800-222-9888 or 212-777-7777 ANA 7 EOS 4 Lufthansa 1 United Airlines 7 Asiana 4 Etihad 4 Malev Hungarian 8 US Airways/ Taxis from the airport to anywhere in cost a fl at $45 + tolls and tip, while fares to the airport are Austrian Airlines 1 Eurofl y 4 Max Jet 4 America West 7 metered + tolls and tip. The SuperShuttle (800-258-3826) will drop you anywhere between Battery Park and Avianca 4 Finnair 8 Mexicana 4 USA 3000 4 227th, including all hotels, for $13–$22, but be warned it could end up taking a while, depending on where your Azteca 4 Flyglobespan 4 Miami Air (charter) 4 US Helicopter 3 Biman Bangladesh 4 Harmony 4 North American 4 Uzbekistan 4 fellow passengers are going. Nevertheless, it’s a good option if you want door-to-door service and have a lot of British Airways 7 Northwest 4 Varig 4 time to kill, but not a lot of cash. Olympic 1 Virgin American 4 Virgin Atlantic 4 275 Zoom Airlines 4

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West St West G Queens Blvd R V airport terminal you need. 25 y 495 p py A one-way ride on the AirTrain sets you back $5, so a ride on the subway and then hopping the AirTrain will be x Ex W E Lo nd QUEENS ng sla o ns I o L e d a total of $7. If you’re anywhere near Penn Station and your time is valuable, the LIRR to Jamaica will cost you $5 ue h F Q a - v n e off -peak, $7 during peak times, and the journey takes roughly 20 minutes. The AirTrain portion of the trip will Williamsburg Bridgely n y 278 Manhattan Bridge k kw o B Grand Central P o lv still cost you an additional $5 and round out your travel time to less than an hour. r d Brooklyn Bridge B Metropolitan Ave M E J M J Z Z If you want to give your MetroCard a workout, you can take the or the to the Turnpike/Kew Gardens stop L Battery Tunnel and transfer to the . Another possibility is the or to New Lots Avenue, where you transfer to the to Brooklyn- A Broadway 678 JFK. The easiest and most direct option is to take a Airport Service Express (718-875-8200) from 278 Van Wyck Expy either Grand Central Station, Penn Station, or the Port Authority for $15, or you can hop on the Trans-Bridge Bus G Atlantic Ave Flatbush Ave Line (800-962-9135) at Port Authority for $12. Since the travel on service roads, Friday afternoon is not an Jamaica Ave A A C advisable time to try them out. Atlantic Ave N Conduit Ave G 2 3 27 4 3 P 5 4 ro sp Prospect Rocka Parking e way c Cross Bay Blvd B t Park lvd Ex p Daily rates for the Central Terminal Area lots cost $3 for the fi rst half-hour, $6 for up to one hour, $3 for every hour Green-Wood y after that, up to $30 per day. Long-term parking costs $15 for the fi rst 24 hours and $5 for each 8-hour period in Cemetery a N tr BROOKLYN Air thereafter. Be warned, though—many of the ongoing construction projects at JFK aff ect both their short-term R L JFK and long-term lots, so be sure to allow extra time for any unpleasant surprises. For updated parking availability, F Q 2 B Airport call 718-244-4080. D 5 278 Ocean Ave M Ocean Pkwy S

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Food is not a great option, so eat before you leave How to Get There—Really home. If you must dine, there are 5 Au Bon Pains throughout the terminals—find them as they are the Plan ahead and call a car service to guarantee that Flushing most palatable choice available. you won’t spend the morning of your flight fighting for a taxi. Nothing beats door to door service. Allstate Bay Car and Limousine: 212-333-3333 ($30 in the am & How to Get There—Driving $38 in the pm + tolls from Union Square); LimoRes: (or directing your cabbie) 212-777-7171 ($30 + tolls from Union Square; best to call in the morning); Dial 7: 212-777-7777 ($30 in LaGuardia is mere inches away from Grand Central the am & $40 in the pm + tolls from Union Square), Parkway, which can be reached from both the Carmel: 212-666-6666 ($31 + tolls to LGA, $28–$35 + Central Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) or from the tolls from LGA). Terminal Triboro Bridge. From , take the US Air Brooklyn, Manhattan, or Williamsburg Bridges to Terminal US Air Parking Shuttle the BQE to Grand Central Parkway E. From Midtown Parking Lot 2 Parking Lot 3 Manhattan, take FDR Drive to the Triboro to Grand Delta Daily parking rates at LaGuardia cost $3 for the first Parking Central. A potential alternate route (and money- Delta Lot 1 half-hour, $6 for up to one hour, $3 for every hour Shuttle saver) would be to take the 59th Street Bridge to 21st Parking Parking thereafter, and up to $30 per day. Long-term parking Marine Air Lot 5 Lot 4 Street in Queens. Once you’re heading north on 21st is $30 for each of the first two days, then $5 for each 8- Terminal t D S Street, you can make a right on Astoria Boulevard Parking 22 r 102 hour period thereafter (though only in Lot 3). You can Parking Lot 6 Ditmars Blvd and follow it all the way to 94th Street, where you Lot 7 6 Grand Central Pkwy use cash, credit card, or E-Z Pass to pay. Another option 94 St can make a left and drive straight into LaGuardia. y 101 St is independent parking lots, such as The Crowne Plaza w k P Ditmars Blvd This alternate route is good if the FDR and/or the l 99 St 102 St a (104-04 Ditmars Blvd, 718-457-6300 x295), Clarion tr 23 Ave n 97 St BQE is jammed, although that probably means that e C Airport Parking (Ditmars Blvd & 94th St, 718-335-6713) 90 St Butler St d Jackson Mill95 Rd St n the 59th Street Bridge won’t be much better. ra and AviStar (23rd Ave & 90th St, 800-621-PARK). They G 25 AveCurtis St 1 92 St Ericsson St run their own shuttle buses from their lots, and they 24 Ave 278 5 Gillmore St usually charge $14–$17 per day. If all the parking

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2 90 Pl 25 Ave 29 Ave Alas, no subway line goes to LaGuardia (although 82 St there SHOULD be one running across 96th Street Rental Cars 3 in Manhattan, through Astoria, and ending at 1 Avis • LGA 800-230-4898 LaGuardia—but that’s another story). The closest the 2 Budget • 83-34 23rd Ave 800-527-0700 Airline Terminal General Information subway comes is the Jackson Heights/ 3 Dollar • 90-05 25th Ave 800-800-4000 Air Canada A Roosevelt Avenue/74th Street stop in Queens, where 4 Enterprise • 104-04 Ditmars Blvd 718-457-2900 Air Tran Airways B Address: LaGuardia Airport you can transfer to the or 47 bus bus to LaGuardia. 5 Hertz • LGA 800-654-3131 American D Flushing, NY 11371 Sound exciting? Well, it’s not. A better bus to take is 6 National • Ditmars Blvd & 95th St 800-227-7368 American Eagle C Recorded Information: 718-533-3400 the , which runs across 125th Street to the airport. ATA B Lost & Found: 718-533-3988 An even better bet would be to pay the extra few Colgan US Airways Police: 718-533-3900 bucks and take the New York Airport Service Express Hotels Comair Delta Website: www.laguardiaairport.com Bus ($12 one-way, 718-875-8200) from Grand Continental A Clarion • 94-00 Ditmars Blvd • 718-335-1200 Continental Express A Central Station. It departs every 20–30 minutes and Courtyard • 90-10 Grand Central Pkwy • Delta Delta Overview takes approximately 45 minutes; also catch it on 718-446-4800 Delta Connection Delta The reason to fly from LaGuardia (affectionately Park Avenue between 41st and 42nd Streets, Penn Crowne Plaza • 104-04 Ditmars Blvd • 718-457-6300 Delta Shuttle Marine known as LGA on your baggage tags) is that it is Station, and the Port Authority Bus Terminal. The Eden Park Hotel • 113-10 Corona Ave • Frontier Airlines B geographically the closest airport to Manhattan and improbably named SuperShuttle Manhattan is a 718-699-4500 jetBlue Airways B shared mini-bus that picks you up anywhere within Midwest B thus a cheap(er) cab ride when your delayed flight LaGuardia Marriott • 102-05 Ditmars Blvd • Northwest Delta touches down at 1 in the morning. The reason not the city limits ($13–$22 one-way, 212-258-3826). 718-565-8900 Spirit B to fly to and from here is that there is no subway line If you want a taxi, search for the “hidden” cab line Paris Suites • 109-17 Horace Harding Expy • United C (HELLO, city officials!) and the check-in areas are just tucked around Terminal D as the line is almost always 718-760-2820 United Express C too darn small to accommodate the many passengers shorter than the others. Sheraton • 135-20 39th Ave • 718-460-6666 US Airways US Airways and their many bags that crowd the terminals at just Wyndham Garden • 100-15 Ditmars Blvd • US Airways Express US Airways US Airways Shuttle US Airways Shuttle about every hour of the day. 718-426-1500 279 Transit • Newark Liberty Airport Transit • Newark Liberty Airport

Economy Terminal B can be a bit shady. You can also catch direct buses B3 B1 General Information Parking P7 B2 departing from Port Authority Bus Terminal (with the C1 Gates Gates 60-68 Gates Gates 50-58 40-48 Address: 10 Toler Pl, Newark, NJ 07114 advantage of a bus-only lane running right out of the 70-99 A3 Phone: 888-EWR-INFO station and into the Lincoln Tunnel), Grand Central B Gates 30-39 Police/Lost & Found: 973-961-6230 Terminal, and Penn Station (the New York version) on Economy Airport Information: 973-961-6000 Parking Olympia for $14. The SuperShuttle will set you back P6 Terminal A Transportation Info: 800-AIR-RIDE (247-7533) $13–$22, and a taxi from Manhattan will cost you Short-Term Radio Station: 530 AM C2 around $50. Parking A A2 Gates B Website: www.newarkairport.com 101-115 Gates C 20-28 Short-Term Short-Term How to Get There–Car Services Terminal C Parking Parking Overview C A Car services are always the simplest option, although Newark Airport is easily the nicest of the three major they’re a bit more expensive for Newark Airport than C3 Marriott A1 metropolitan airports. The monorail that connects they are for LaGuardia. Allstate Car and Limousine: Gates Hotel Gates 120-139 Express Rd 10-18 the terminals and the parking lots, the AirTrain 212-333-3333 ($44 in the am & $52 in the pm + tolls Express Rd link from Penn Station, and the diverse food court from Union Square); Tri-State: 212-777-7171 ($43 + Daily Parking P4 4 Earhart Dr (South Service Rd) (in Terminal C), make it the city’s preferred point tolls from Union Square; best to call in the morning); P3 of departure and arrival. There are also plenty of Garage 1 Daily Dial 7: 212-777-7777 ($44 in the am & $49 in the pm Parking international departures, making it a great second + tolls from Union Square). 5 Daily Parking P1 option to the miserable experience of doing JFK. Brewster Rd (Utility Rd) Car Rental P2 Parking 78 If your flight gets delayed or you find yourself with time on your hands, check out the d-parture spa Regular parking rates are $3 for the first half-hour, $6 78 2 3 in Terminals B or C to unwind, or, if you’re feeling for up to one hour, $3 for every hour after that, and carnivorous after your screaming match with airline now an excessive $24 per day for the P1, P3, and P4 1 9 personnel, Gallagher’s Steakhouse (Terminal C). monorail-serviced lots. The P6 and P7 parking lots AirTrain Rail Link Terminal (Amtrak/NJ Transit transfer point) are much farther away, are only serviced by a shuttle How to Get There–Driving bus, and cost $15 per day. There are some off-airport lots that you can sometimes score for $10, especially The route to Newark Airport is easy—just take the Airline Terminal Airline Terminal if you have a business card. Most of them are on the Air Canada A Flybe British European C Holland Tunnel or the Lincoln Tunnel to the New local southbound drag of Route 1 & 9. Valet parking Air France B Jet Airways B Jersey Turnpike South. You can use either Exit 14 or Exit costs $36 per day. Air India B Jet Blue A 13A. If you want a cheaper and slightly more scenic Air Jamaica B KLM Royal Dutch Airlines B (from an industrial standpoint) drive, follow signs for Rental Cars Air Plus Comet (seasonal) B L’Avion B the Pulaski Skyway once you exit the Holland Tunnel. Air Tran A LoT Polish B It’s free, it’s one of the coolest bridges in America, 1 • Avis 800-230-4898 Alaska Airlines A Lufthansa B and it leads you to the airport just fine. If possible, 2 • Budget 800-527-0700 Alitalia B Malaysia B check a traffic report before leaving Manhattan— 3 • Dollar 866-434-2226 America West A Mexicana B sometimes there are viciously long tie-ups, especially 4 • Hertz 800-654-3131 American (domestic) A Miami Air (Charter)** B at the Holland Tunnel. It’s always worth it to see which 5 • National 800-227-7368 American (international) A/B* Midwest A 6 • Enterprise (Off-Airport) 800-325-8007 American Eagle A Northwest B outbound tunnel has the shortest wait. British Airways B Qantas A Casino Express (charter) A SAS B How to Get There–Mass Transit Hotels Chautauqua A Silverjet B Marriott (On-Airport) • 973-623-0006 Comair B Singapore Airlines B If you’re allergic to traffic, try taking the AirTrain Continental C Swiss International Air Lines B service from Penn Station. It’s run by Amtrak ($30– Courtyard Marriott • 600 Rte 1 & 9 S • 973-643-8500 Continental (Atlanta// Dallas/Washington DC) A TAP Portugal B $44 one-way) and NJ Transit ($14 one-way). If you use Hilton • 1170 Spring St • 908-351-3900 Continental (Baton Rouge) A United (domestic) A NJ Transit, choose a train that runs on the Northeast Howard Johnson • 20 Frontage Rd • 973-344-1500 Continental () A United (international) A/B* Corridor or with a scheduled Sheraton • 128 Frontage Rd • 973-690-5500 Czech Airlines B United Express A stop for Newark Airport. If you use Amtrak, choose a Hampton Inn • 1128-38 Spring St • 908-355-0500 Delta B USA3000 B train that runs on the with Best Western • 101 International Wy • 973-621-6200 Delta Express B US Airways A a scheduled stop for Newark Airport. 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J r S i y ne 27 w P e k 7 Manhattan Bridge free 4 yes 150 31 Leon Moisseiff 1,470’ DOT 12/31/09 N Bayonne w 17 Bay Pkwy Bridge y 8 Williamsburg Bridge free 8 yes 140 24.2 Leffert L. Buck 1,600’ DOT 12/19/03 Marine Parkway 16 9 Queens-Midtown Tunnel 4.50/4.00 4 no 80 52 Ole Singstad 6,414’ MTA 11/15/40 Goethals Gil Hodges Bridge 4 py Memorial Bridge 18 nd Ex Verrazano- 10 Queensboro Bridge free 10 yes 200 20 Gustav Lindenthal 1,182’ DOT 3/30/09 Isla ten 278 Narrows r ta l D 11 Triborough Bridge 4.50/4.00 8/ yes 200 60.3 Othmar H. Ammann 1,380’ MTA 7/11/36 y S Bridge e p nn x a 6/8 E Ch e h Atlantic r c o ea 12 Henry Hudson Bridge 2.25/1.75 7 no 75 5 David Steinman 840’ MTA 12/12/36 h B Ocean S 13 Whitestone Bridge 4.50/4.00 6 no 110 20 Othmar H. Ammann 2300’ MTA 4/29/39 W 14 Throgs Neck Bridge 4.50/4.00 6 no 100 92 Othmar H. Ammann 1800’ MTA 1/11/61 Staten Free Crossings 15 Cross Bay Veterans 2.25/1.50 6 yes 20 29 n/a 3000’ MTA 5/28/70 Island Memorial Bridge A Broadway Bridge 16 Marine Parkway 2.25/1.50 4 yes 25 12 Madigan and Hyland 540’ MTA 7/3/37

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k Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge P C Washington Bridge d Lower 17 6.00/5.00/4.00 4 yes 20 13 Othmar H. Ammann 5,780’ PANY/NJ 11/13/31 n o New York m D A Hamilton Bridge 18 Goethals Bridge 6.00/5.00/4.00 4 no 75 7.2 Othmar H. Ammann 8,600’ PANY/NJ 6/29/28 h c i Bay R E Macombs Dam Bridge 19 Outerbridge Crossing 6.00/5.00/4.00 4 no 80 9.6 Othmar H. Ammann 750’ PANY/NJ 6/29/28 F 145th St Bridge 440 G Madison Ave Bridge * $9.00/$8.00 with EZPass to ($6.40/4.80 for registered Staten Island residents with EZPass), Outerbridge H 3rd Ave Bridge $2.25 with three or more occupants—cash only. Free to Brooklyn. Crossing 19 I Willis Ave Bridge 283 Transit • Ferries, Marinas & Heliports Transit • Ferries, Marinas & Heliports

16 17 Ferries/Boat Tours, Rentals & Charters Commuter Ferry Services Name Contact Info 26 Staten Island Ferry 311 • www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/ferrybus/statfery.shtml NY NY Waterway This free ferry travels between Battery Park and Staten Island. On weekdays it leaves every 15–30 minutes 12 Central am–11:30 pm. On weekends, it leaves every hour 1:30 am–11:30 am and every half-hour at all other times. Park NY Waterway 800-53-FERRY • www.nywaterway.com SI Staten Island The largest ferry service in NY, NYWaterway off ers many commuter routes (mostly from New Jersey), sightseeing tours. However, recent fi nancial troubles have them closing many commuter lines. SS Sea Streak 14 15 NY Water Taxi 212-742-1969 • www.nywatertaxi.com Available for commuting, sightseeing, charter, and shuttles to Yankees and Mets games. Commuter tickets TX Water Taxi River Hudson QUEENS range between $4.50 and $6 and tours cost $20 to $25. For chartered trips or tours, call for a quote. MANHATTAN Sea Streak 800-BOAT-RIDE • www.seastreakusa.com Catamarans that go pretty fast from the Highlands in NJ to and E 34th Street. 27 Circle Line 212-269-5755 • www.circleline.com Circle Line off ers many sightseeing tours, including a visit to Ellis Island (departs from Pier 16 at South Street Seaport—$11 for adults, $4.50 for kids) 11 12 13 Spirit of New York 212-727-7735 • www.spiritcruises.com NY Port Imperial TX Off ers lunch and dinner cruises. Prices start at $43. Leaves from Pier 62 at Chelsea Piers. Make a reservation TX at least one week in advance, but the earlier the better. Pier 84 Hunters Loeb Boathouse 212-517-2233 •www.centralparknyc.org 44th St You can rent rowboats from March through October at the Lake in Central Park, open seven days a week, East River Point WEEHAWKEN weather permitting. Boat rentals cost $12 for the fi rst hour and $3 for every additional 15 minutes (rentals SS Pier 78 also require a $30 cash deposit). The boathouse is open 10 am–5 pm, but the last boat goes out at 4:30 pm. NY Up to four people per boat. No reservations needed. 38th St 34th St NY Lincoln Harbor World Yacht Cruises 212-630-8100 or 800-498-4271 • www.worldyacht.com These fancy, three-hour dinner cruises start at $89.88 per person. The cruises depart from Pier 81 (41st 8 9 10 28 Street) and require reservations. The cruise boards at 6 pm, sails at 7 pm, and returns at 10 pm. There’s also a Sunday brunch cruise April–December that costs $61.85 per person. Pier 63 NY Hoboken North W 23nd St Marinas/Passenger Ship Terminal TX Name Contact Info Map HOBOKEN MarineMax Manhattan 212-336-7873 • www.marinemax.com 8 Dockage at Chelsea Piers. They off er daily, weekly, and seasonal per-foot rates (there’s NY Hoboken South 5 6 7 always a waiting list). TX 29 NY Skyports Inc 212-686-4546 10 34 Pier 45 Located on the East River at E 23rd Street. Transient dockage costs $3 per foot. NY Newport W 10th St 79th St Marina 212-496-2105 14 This city-operated dock is fi lled with long-term houseboat residents. It’s located at W 79th Street and the Hudson River. Open from May to October. NY TX 2 3 4 Dyckman Marina 212-496-2105 25 World South Street Transient dockage on the Hudson River at 348 Dyckman Street Financial Manhattan Cruise Terminal 212-246-5450 • www.nycruise.com 11 NY Seaport If Love Boat re-runs aren’t enough and you decide to go on a cruise yourself, you’ll leave from the Center Manhattan Cruise Terminal. W 55th Street at 12th Avenue. Take the West Side Highway to Piers 88-92. SS TX 35 North Cove Yacht Harbor 212-786-1200 • www.thenorthcove.com p234 Fulton JERSEY CITY Pier 11 30 31 A very, very fancy place to park your yacht in Battery Park City. 1 Wall St Ferry Landing Helicopter Services NY Paulus Hook A TX SI B Name Contact Info Map TX NY Liberty Harbor BROOKLYN Helicopter Flight Services 212-355-0801 • www.heliny.com 3, 8 For a minimum of $129, you can hop on a helicopter at the Downtown Manhattan Heliport at Pier 6 on the East River on weekdays, or at the W 30th Street Heliport on weekends and spend 32 15 minutes gazing down on Manhattan. Reservations are recommended, and there’s a minimum 33 of two passengers per fl ight. Red Hook Liberty Helicopter Tours 212-967-6464 • www.libertyhelicopters.com 3, 8 TX Leaves from the heliport at W 30th Street and 12th Avenue (9 am–9 pm) or the Downtown Manhattan Heliport at Pier 6 on the East River (9 am–6:30 pm). Prices start at $69, and reservations are needed only when boarding at the Seaport. Flights depart every 5–10 minutes. Minimum of four passengers per fl ight. (Weekday Rush Hours Only) Wall Street Helicopter 212-943-5959 • www.wallstreetheli.qpg.com 3 A Battery Park/Slip 6 Leaves from any heliport in Manhattan. Executive/corporate helicopter and twin engine NY Port Liberte B Whitehall Terminal Brooklyn aircraft charters. No sightseeing. Army Terminal 285

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want to get to Houston Street from the Holland Tunnel, take General Information Manhattan’s “Highways” Hudson Street to King Street to the Avenue of the Americas E-ZPass Information: 800-333-TOLL There are two so-called highways in Manhattan—the Harlem to Houston Street (this is the only efficient way to get to the Radio Station Traffic Updates: 1010 WINS on the 1s for a 5 boroughs focus and 880 on the 8s for a suburbs focus River Drive/FDR Drive/East River Drive (which prohibits Village from the Holland Tunnel). First Avenue is good going DOT Website: www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/dot/html/motorist/motorist.html commercial vehicles) and the Henry Hudson Parkway/West north and is good going south. Washington Real-Time Web Traffic Info: www.metrocommute.com Side Highway/Joe Dimaggio Highway. The main advantage Street is the only way to make any headway southbound of the FDR is that it has no traffic lights, while the West Side and Hudson Street is the only way to make any headway Highway has lights from Battery Park up through 57th Street. northbound in the West Village. Driving in Manhattan The main disadvantages of the FDR are (1) the potholes and Avoid it. Why drive when you can see the city so well on foot or by bus? (We don’t count the subway as seeing the city, but rather (2) the narrow lanes. If there’s been a lot of rain, both highways Driving Downtown as a cultural experience in and of itself.) We know that sometimes you just have to drive in the city, so we’ve made you a list of will flood, so you’re out of luck (but the FDR floods first). essentials. Although the West Side Highway can fly, we would rather Don’t do it unless you have to. Western TriBeCa is okay and so look at Brooklyn and Queens than Jersey, so the FDR wins. is the Lower East Side—try not to “turn in” to SoHo, Chinatown, • Great auto insurance that doesn’t care if the guy who hit you doesn’t have insurance and doesn’t or the Civic Center. Canal Street is a complete mess during the speak any English. day (avoid it), since on its western end, everyone is trying to • Thick skin on driver, passengers, and car. Needed for the fender benders and screamed profanity from Driving Uptown get to the Holland Tunnel, and on its eastern end, everyone the cabbies that are ticked anyone but cabbies are on the road. The 96th Street transverse across Central Park is usually is mistakenly driving over the Manhattan Bridge (your only • Meditation CD to counteract cardiac arrest–inducing “almost” accidents. the best one, although if there’s been a lot of rain, it will other option when heading east on Canal is to turn right on • NFT. But we know you would never leave home without it. flood. If you’re driving on the west side, Riverside Drive is Bowery!). Watch the potholes! • E-ZPass. Saves time and lives. Maybe not lives, but definitely time and some money. the best route, followed next by West End Avenue. People • New York State license plates. Even pedestrians will curse you out if you represent anywhere other drive like morons on Broadway, and Columbus jams up in than the Empire State, especially NJ or CT or Texas. the mid 60s before Lincoln Center and the mid 40s before DMV Locations in Manhattan • A tiny car that can fit into a spot slightly larger than a postage stamp or tons of cash for parking garages. the Lincoln Tunnel but it’s still the best way to get all the If you’re going to the DMV to get your first NY license (including • Patience with pedestrians—they own the streets of New York. Well, co-own them with the cabbies, sanitation trucks, cops, way downtown without changing avenues. Amsterdam drivers with other states’ licenses), you’ll need extensive and fire engines. is a good uptown route if you can get to it. For the east documentation of your identity. The offices have a long list of The following are some tips that we’ve picked up over the years: side, you can take Fifth Avenue downtown to about 65th accepted documents, but your best bet is a US passport and Street, whereupon you should bail out and cut over to Park a Social Security card. If you don’t have these things, birth got E-ZPass anyway ($4). The bridges from south to north can Avenue for the rest of the trip. Do NOT drive on Fifth Avenue certificates from the US, foreign passports, and various INS Hudson River Crossings be remembered as B-M-W, but they are not as cool as the cars below 65th Street within a month of Christmas, and check documents will be okay under certain conditions. Do not be In the Bridge or Tunnel battle, the Bridge almost always wins. that share the initials. the parade schedules before attempting it on weekends surprised if you are turned away the first time. This trip requires The George Washington Bridge is by far the best Hudson throughout the year. The 96th Street entrance to the FDR great amounts of patience. Plan on spending three to six hours River crossing. It’s got more lanes and better access than Queens screws up First and Third Avenues going north and the 59th here. We’re not kidding. This is not a lunch-hour errand. Street Bridge screws up Lexington and Second Avenues either tunnel with a fantastic view to boot. If you’re going There are three options for crossing into Queens by car. Greenwich Street Office going downtown. Getting stuck in 59th Street Bridge traffic anywhere in the country that’s north of central New Jersey, The Queens Midtown Tunnel is usually miserable, since it 11 Greenwich St is one of the most frustrating things in the universe because take it. However, inbound traffic on the George can back up feeds directly onto the parking lot known as the Long Island New York, NY 10004 there is absolutely no way out of it. for hours in the morning because they don’t have enough Expressway. The 59th Street Bridge (known as the Queensboro (Cross Streets Battery Park Pl & Morris St) toll booth operators to handle all those nuts who don’t have to mapmakers) is the only free crossing to Queens. The best M–F 8:30 am–4 pm E-ZPass. The Lincoln Tunnel is decent inbound, but check approach to it is First Avenue to 57th Street (after that, follow Driving in Midtown 212-645-5550 or 718-966-6155 1010 AM (WINS) if you have the chance—even though they the signs) or to 59th Street if you want to jump on the outer Harlem Office can be horribly inaccurate and frustrating. Avoid the Lincoln roadway that saves a ton of time and only precludes easy Good luck! Sometimes Broadway is best because everyone’s 159 E 125th St, 3rd Fl like the plague during evening rush hour (starts at about access to Northern Boulevard. If you’re in Queens and want to trying to get out of Manhattan, jamming up the west side New York, NY 10035 3:30 pm). If you have to take the Holland Tunnel outbound, go downtown in Manhattan, you can take the lower level of (via the Lincoln Tunnel) and the east side (via the 59th Street (Lexington and Third) try the Broome Street approach, but don’t even bother the 59th Street Bridge since it will feed directly onto Second Bridge and the Queens Midtown Tunnel). Friday nights M, T, W & F 8:30 am–4 pm, Thursday 10 am–6 pm between 5 and 7 pm on weekdays. Avenue, which of course goes downtown. The Triborough at 9:30 pm can be a breeze, but from 10 pm to midnight, Bridge is usually the best option (especially if you’re going you’re screwed as shows let out. The “interior” of the city is 212-645-5550 or 718-966-6155 to LaGuardia, Shea, Astoria for Greek food, or Flushing for the last place to get jammed up—it’s surprisingly quiet at 8 Herald Square Office East River Crossings dim sum). The FDR to the Triborough is good except for rush am. At 10 am, however, it’s a parking lot. Those who plan to 1293-1311 Broadway, 8th Fl Brooklyn hour—then try Third Avenue to 124th Street. drive in Midtown on weekends from about March–October New York, NY 10001 Pearl Street to the Brooklyn Bridge is the least-known should check parade schedules for Fifth AND Sixth avenues. (Between W 33 & W 34th Sts) approach. Only the Williamsburg Bridge has direct access Harlem River Crossings * To exchange an out-of-state license for a New York license, (i.e. no traffic lights) to the northbound BQE in Brooklyn, and The demarcation of several “THRU Streets” running east-west you must go to License X-Press. only the Brooklyn Bridge has direct access to the FDR Drive The Triborough ($4.50) will get you to the Bronx in pretty in Midtown has been with the city for a couple of years and M–F 8:30 am–4 pm in Manhattan. Again, listen to the radio if you can, but all good shape, especially if you are heading east on the folks are finally getting the hang of it. Still, it may screw you 212-645-5550 or 718-966-6155 up. See the next page for more information. three bridges can be disastrous as they seem to be constantly Bruckner towards 95 or the Hutchinson (which will take you Manhattan under construction (or, in a fabulous new twist, having one to eastern Westchester and ). To get to Yankee License X-Press Office* lane closed by the NYPD to for some unknown (terrorism?) Stadium, take the Willis or the Macomb’s Dam (which are both Driving in the Village 300 W 34th St reason). The Williamsburg is by far the best free route into free). When you feel comfortable maneuvering the tight turns New York, NY 10001 North Brooklyn, but make sure to take the outer roadway approaching the Willis, use it for all travel to Westchester and People get confused walking in the village, so you can (Between Eighth & Ninth aves) to keep your options open in case the BQE is jammed. Your Connecticut in order to save toll money. The Henry Hudson imagine how challenging driving can be in the maze of one *Service limited to license and registration renewals and out- best option to go anywhere else in Brooklyn is usually the Bridge ($2.25) will take you up to western Westchester along ways and short streets. Beware. If you’re coming into the of-state exchange. You can’t get your snowmobile or boat Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, which can be reached from the FDR the Hudson, and, except for the antiquated and completely Village from the northwest, is the safest crosstown license here, but you can surrender your license plate. Oh, as well as the West Side Highway. Fun fact: The water you pass unnecessary toll plaza, is pretty good. It wins the fast and route heading east. However, going west, take 13th Street. and no permit renewals. was so dirty in the ‘50s that it used to catch fire. The tunnel is pretty prize for its beautiful surroundings. The Cross-Bronx Houston Street is under construction at a number of points M–F 8:30 am–4 pm not free ($4.50), but if you followed our instructions you’ve Expressway will take years off your life. Avoid it at all costs. along its length but it has the great benefit of direct access 212-645-5550 or 718-966-6155 to FDR Drive, both getting onto it and coming off of it. If you 287 York Ave

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PAGE The General Information 236 Pond E 60th St Queensboro Bridge DOT Website: www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/motorist/streetprog.html Central Park Central Park S E 59th St DOT Phone: 311 Grand Army Plaza E 58th St SuttonOverview Sq In the tradition of “don’t block the box” and other traffi c solutions (such as randomly arresting political

E 57th St Sutton Pl protesters), the city introduced “THRU Streets,” a program initially tested in 2002, as a permanent fi xture in Midtown in 2004. The plan was implemented on some crosstown streets in Midtown in order to reduce travel

Seventh Ave E 56th St times, relieve congestion, and provide a safer environment for pedestrians and cyclists. They are still working on cleaning up the exhaust fume issue, for those concerned about said environment.

E 55th St Split Phasing On certain streets, cars are not allowed to make turns between Sixth and Third Avenues (with the exception of Thru Street Park Avenue). The regulations are in eff ect between 10 am and 6 pm on weekdays. The aff ected streets are: E 54th St 36th & 37th Streets 45th & 46th Streets E 53rd St 49th & 50th Streets 53rd & 54th Streets WC Handy Pl E 52nd St MAP

Ave of the Americas (Sixth Ave) 60th Street (between Third and Fifth Avenues) 13 E 51st St The good news is that turns from 59th Street are permitted. Oh joy. Third Ave Madison Ave

Second Ave Rockefeller Plz Rockefeller Lexington Ave

Fifth Ave The above streets are easily identifi able by big, purple “THRU Streets” signs. With everything that’s going on in Park Ave First Ave E 50th St Beekman Pl though, you’d be forgiven for missing a sign (by us, not by the NYPD). If you happen to Rockefeller Center unwittingly fi nd yourself on a THRU Street and can’t escape on Park Avenue, you’re going to have to suck it up E 49th St until you get to Sixth Avenue or Third Avenue, depending on the direction you’re heading. If you attempt to turn PAGE before the designated avenue, you’ll fi nd yourself with an insanely expensive ticket. Of course, if you’re trying to 258 E 48th St drive crosstown, it’s in your best interests to take one of these streets.

Both sides of almost every non-THRU Street in this grid have been stuck with “No Standing Except Trucks Loading E 47th St and Unloading” regulations, supposedly creating up to 150 spaces for truck loading (if you were ever stuck behind Dag Hammarskjold Plaza Peace Gardens a truck in morning rush hour on a THRU Street in 2004, you would rejoice at this news). Additionally, one side of E 46th St each non-THRU street has been “daylighted” for 80–100 feet in advance of the intersection. We are not exactly sure how they came up with the term “daylighted,” but the DOT tells us it allows space for turning vehicles.

E 45th St United Nations Plz Lexington Ave Vanderbilt Ave Vanderbilt Grand According to the DOT, THRU Streets are working—since the program began, travel times have fallen by 25% Central PAGE Depew Pl Station E 44th St 268 (as people have decided to emigrate to New Zealand) and vehicle speeds have increased by an average of 33% United (from 4 mph to 5.3 mph). The THRU Streets combined now carry 4,854 vehicles per hour (up from 4,187), which MIDTOWN PAGE Nations means that each of the THRU Streets accommodates an average of 74 additional vehicles per hour. 317 E 43rd St Tudor City Pl E 42nd St Split Signal Phasing Another traffi c innovation in Midtown is “split signal phasing,” which allows pedestrians to cross the street New York Bryant Public Park E 41st St without having to worry about vehicles turning in their at about 40 non-THRU Street intersections in this Library Midtown Tunnel same grid. Of course, this system assumes that both pedestrians and drivers follow the rules of the road. In E 40th St spite of the disregard that most New Yorkers display for crossing signals, the number of pedestrian accidents in the eight-month trial period (compared to the eight months prior to implementation) fell from 81 to 74. The

Seventh Av MURRAY E 39th St number of cycling accidents fell from 30 to 17. Accidents not related to pedestrians or bikes fell from 168 to 8th Av HILL 102. We don’t know if this accounts for accidents caused by drivers who became confused by the pretty purple Entrance St signs. We have to admit that something must be working—though there would be no accidents if no one ever

E 38th St Exit St left their house…

E 37th St Now if the DOT and NYPD could get traffi c to fl ow smoothly onto bridges and into tunnels, they might actually be onto something. They can save you 1.5 minutes getting crosstown, just don’t try leaving the city. Ever. E 36th St 289 E 35th St

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E 33rd St Transit • Parking in Manhattan Transit • Parking in Manhattan

Most SCR signs are clearly marked by the “P” symbol with the Information Signs Alternate Side Parking broom through it. Some SCR signs are the traditional 3-hour Department of Transportation (DOT): 311 (24 hours) or Traffic Rules state that one parking sign Suspension Calendar ones (“8 am–11 am” etc.) but many others vary considerably. 212-NEW-YORK (Out-of-state) per block is sufficient notification. Check the entire block and Check the times before you park. Then check them again. TTY Hearing-Impaired: 212-504-4115 read all signs carefully before you park. Then read them again. 2008–2009 (Estimated*) • Alternate Side Parking Suspended (ASP) Website: www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/dot/ If there is more than one sign posted for the same area, “No Parking” signs in effect one day a week or on alternate Parking Violations Help Line: 311 2008 Holiday Date Day Rules the more restrictive sign takes effect (of course). If a sign is days are suspended on days designated ASP; however, all TTY Automated Information missing on a block, the remaining posted regulations are the Labor Day Sep 1 Mon MLH “No Stopping” and “No Standing” signs remain in effect. for the Hearing Impaired: 718-802-8555 Rosh Hashanah Sep 30–Oct 1 Tues–Wed ASP ones in effect. • Major Legal Holiday Rules in Effect (MLH) Website: www.ci.nyc.ny.us/finance (parking ticket info) Idul-Fitr Oct 1–3 Wed–Fri ASP “No Parking” and “No Standing” signs that are in effect fewer Yom Kippur Oct 9 Thurs ASP Columbus Day (Observed) Oct 13 Mon ASP than seven days a week are suspended on days designated Standing, Stopping and The Blue Zone Succoth, 1st/2nd Day Oct 14–15 Tues–Wed ASP MLH in the above calendar. The Blue Zone is a “No Parking” (Mon–Fri, 7 am–7 pm) area Shemini Atzereth Oct 21 Tues ASP • If the city finds that a neighborhood keeps its streets clean Parking Rules in Lower Manhattan. Its perimeter has been designated with Simchas Torah Oct 22 Wed ASP enough, it may lessen the number of street cleaning days, or Diwali Oct 28 Tues ASP blue paint; however, there are no individual “Blue Zone” signs even eliminate them all together. So listen to your mother In “No Stopping” areas, you can’t wait in your car, drop off All Saints Day Nov 1 Sat ASP posted. Any other signs posted in that area supersede Blue and don’t litter. passengers, or load/unload. Election Day Nov 4 Tues ASP Zone regulations. Confused yet? In “No Standing” areas, you can’t wait in your car or load/ Veterans Day Nov 11 Tues ASP unload, but you can drop off passengers. Thanksgiving Day Nov 27 Thurs MLH Tow Pounds Immaculate Conception Dec 8 Mon ASP In “No Parking” areas, you can’t wait in your car or drop off General Idul-Adha Dec 8–10 Mon–Wed ASP Manhattan Christmas Day Dec 25 Thurs MLH Pier 76 at W 38th St & Twelfth Ave passengers, but you can load/unload. • All of NYC was designated a Tow Away Zone under the 2009 Holiday Date Day Rules Monday: 7 am–11 pm, State’s Vehicle & Traffic Law and the NYC Traffic Rules. This open 24 hours: Tuesday 7 am–Sunday 6 am means that any vehicle parked or operated illegally, or with New Year’s Day Jan 1 Thurs MLH 212-971-0771 or 212-971-0772 Parking Meter Zones missing or expired registration or inspection stickers, may, Martin Luther King Jr’s Birthday Jan 19 Mon ASP Bronx On holidays when street cleaning rules are suspended (see and probably will, be towed. Asian Lunar New Year Jan 26 Mon ASP 745 E 141st St b/w Bruckner Expy & East River Lincoln’s Birthday Feb 12 Thurs ASP calendar), the “no parking” cleaning regulations for metered • On major legal holidays, stopping, standing, and parking Monday–Friday: 8 am–9 pm, Saturday: 8 am–3 pm, Presidents’ Day Feb 16 Mon ASP parking are also suspended. You can park in these spots but are permitted except in areas where stopping, standing, and Sunday: Closed; 718-585-1385 or 718-585-1391 Ash Wednesday Feb 25 Wed ASP have to pay the meters. Also, metered spots are still subject to parking rules are in effect seven days a week (for example, Brooklyn “No Standing Anytime”). Purim Mar 10 Tues ASP rules not suspended on holidays (see below). On MLH (major Holy Thursday Apr 9 Thurs ASP Brooklyn Navy Yard; corner of Sands St & Navy St • It is illegal to park in a spot where SCR are in effect, even if legal holidays), meter rules are suspended (so no need to feed Good Friday Apr 10 Fri ASP Monday–Friday: 8 am–9 pm, Saturday: 8 am–4 pm, the street cleaner has already passed. If you sit in your car, the meter). Passover (1st/2nd Day) Apr 9–10 Thurs–Fri ASP Sunday: 12 pm-8 pm; 718-694-0696 the metermaid will usually let you stay Holy Thursday (Orthodox) Apr 17 Thurs ASP Queens • Double-parking of passenger vehicles is illegal at all times, Good Friday (Orthodox) Apr 18 Fri ASP Under the Kosciusko Bridge at 56th Rd & Laurel Hill Blvd Meters including street-cleaning days, regardless of location, Passover (7th/8th Day) Apr 16–17 Thurs–Fri ASP Monday–Friday: 8 am–6 pm, Saturday: 7 am–3 pm, purpose, or duration. Everyone, of course, does this Solemnity of Ascension May 21 Wed ASP Sunday: 12 pm–8 pm; 718-786-7122, 718-786-7123, or At a broken meter, parking is allowed only up to one hour. anyway. If everyone is double parked on a certain block Memorial Day May 25 Mon MLH 718-786-7136 Where a meter is missing, parking is still allowed for the during street cleaning, the NYPD probably is not ticketing. Shavuot (1st/2nd Day) May 29–30 Fri–Sat ASP Find out if your car was towed (and not stolen or disintegrated): maximum time on the posted sign (an hour for a one-hour However, leave your phone number in the window in case Independence Day Jul 4 Sat MLH 718-422-7800 or 718-802-3555 (TTY) meter, two hours for a two-hour meter, etc.). the person you blocked in feels vindictive and demand that Feast of Assumption Aug 15 Sat ASP Labor Day Sep 7 Mon MLH http://nycserv.nyc.gov/NYCServInquiry/NYCSERVMain Instead of old-fashioned individual meters, Midtown has a cop write you a ticket. • It is illegal to park within 15 feet of either side of a fire hydrant. Rosh Hashanah Sep 19 Sat ASP Once you’ve discovered that your car has indeed been towed, “muni-meters.” The machines let you purchase time-stamped Idul-Fitr Sep 19–21 Sat–Mon ASP The painted curbs at hydrant locations do not indicate your next challenge is to find out which borough it’s been towed slips which you stick in your windshield to show you paid. Yom Kippur Sep 28 Mon ASP These machines accept coins, parking cards, and some (we where you can park. Isn’t New York great? Metermaids will to. This depends on who exactly towed your car—the DOT, the tell you that each cement block on the sidewalk is five feet, Columbus Day Oct 12 Mon ASP wish it was all!) accept credit cards (for example, the machines Succoth (1st/2nd Day) Oct 3–4 Sat–Sun ASP Marshal, etc. Don’t assume that since your car was parked in so make sure you are three cement blocks from the hydrant in the theater district). In the case of a non-functional muni- Shemini Atzereth Oct 10 Sat ASP Manhattan that they will tow it to Manhattan—always call first. (2.5 will not do). meter, the one-hour time limit applies. Simchas Torah Oct 11 Sun ASP So you’ve located your car, now come the particulars: If you • If you think you’re parked legally in Manhattan, you’re Diwali Oct 17 Sat ASP own said towed car, you’re required to present your license, The DOT sells parking cards that come in $20, $50, and $100 probably not, so go and read the signs again. All Saints Day Nov 1 Sun ASP registration, insurance, and payment of your fine before you can denominations and can be used in muni-meters, municipal • Cops will now just write you parking tickets and mail them to Election Day Nov 3 Tues ASP collect the impounded vehicle. If you are not the owner of the parking lots, and some single-space meters (look for a yellow you if you are parked in a bus stop; so you won’t even know Veterans Day Nov 11 Wed ASP car, you can usually get it back with all of the above, if your last decal). The cards can be purchased through the DOT website it’s happening unless you’re very alert. Thanksgiving Day Nov 26 Thurs MLH name matches the registration (i.e. the car belongs to a relative (www.nyc.gov/html/dot/home.html), by calling 311 (or • There is now clearly an all-out effort to harass everyone Idul-Adha Nov 27 Fri ASP or spouse); otherwise, you’ll need a notarized letter with the 212-NEW-YORK if you’re calling from outside the city), or by who is insane enough to drive and/or park during the day in Immaculate Conception Dec 8 Tues ASP owner’s signature authorizing you to take the car. The tow fee is going to the Staten Island Ferry Terminal or one of the two downtown Manhattan. Beware. Christmas Day Dec 25 Fri MLH City Stores. $185, plus a $70 execution fee, plus $10–$15 for each day it’s in * Note: We go to press before the DOT issues its official calendar. the pound. If they’ve put a boot on it instead, it’s still $185. You As of spring 2006, you don’t have to pay meters on Sunday, However, using various techniques, among them a Ouija can pay with cash or debit card; if you own the car, you can also even if the signs say you do (unless the law changes again Board, a chainsaw, and repeated phone calls to said DOT, we pay by credit card or certified check. We recommend bringing a with the political winds). think it’s pretty accurate. Nonetheless, caveat parkor. wad of cash and a long Russian novel for this experience. • Street Cleaning Rules (SCR) 291 Transit • LIRR Transit • LIRR

If you’re not a regular LIRR user, you might fi nd yourself taking Otherwise it’ll cost you an extra $4.75 to $5.50 depending General Information Overview the train to Shea Stadium for a Mets game (Port Washington on your destination. As it is a commuter railroad, the LIRR New York City: 718-217-LIRR The Long Island Railroad is the busiest railroad in North Branch), Long Beach for some summer surfi ng (Long Beach off ers weekly and monthly passes, as well as ten-trip Nassau County: 516-822-LIRR America. It has eleven lines with 124 stations stretching Branch), or to Jamaica to transfer to the AirTrain to JFK packages for on- or off -peak hours. Suff olk County: 631-231-LIRR from Penn Station in midtown Manhattan, to the eastern (tip—the subway is cheaper). For the truly adventurous, TTY Information (Hearing Impaired): 718-558-3022 tip of Long Island, Montauk Point. An estimated 81 million take the LIRR all the way out to the Hamptons beach house Group Travel and Tours: 718-558-7498 people ride the LIRR every year. If you enjoy traveling on you are visiting for the weekend (Hamptons Reserve seating Pets on the LIRR (M–F 8 pm–4 pm) overcrowded trains with intermittent air-conditioning, is available during the summer for passengers taking 6 or Trained service animals accompanying passengers with Mail & Ride: 800-649-NYNY then the LIRR is for you. If you are going anywhere on more trips). Bring a book as it is a long ride. disabilities are permitted on LIRR trains. Other small pets MTA Police Eastern Region: 718-558-3300 Long Island and you don’t have a car, the LIRR is your best are allowed on trains, but they must be confi ned to closed, or 516-733-3900 bet. Don’t be surprised if the feeling of being in a seedy ventilated containers. Lost & Found (M-F 7:20 am-7:20 pm): 212-643-5228 bar creeps over you during evening rush—those middle- Fares and Schedules Ticket Refunds (M-F 8 am-4 pm): 718-558-3488 aged business men like their beer en route. Despite a Fares and schedules can be obtained by calling one of the Ticket Machine Assistance: 877-LIRR-TSM recent movement to ban the sale of alcohol on LIRR general information lines, depending on your area. They Bikes on the LIRR Hamptons Reserve Service: 718-558-8070 station platforms and trains, for now, it’s still legal to get can also be found on the LIRR website. Make sure to buy You need a permit ($5) to take your bicycle onto the Long Website: www.mta.info/lirr your buzz on. your ticket before you get on the train at a ticket window Island Railroad. Pick one up at a ticket window or online or at one of the ticket vending machines in the station. at the LIRR website.

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Port Jefferson Bridgehampton Stony Brook Riverhead Port Jefferson Branch Kings Southampton Park St James Hampton Bays Hudson River Locust Valley Northport Montauk Branch Oyster Bay Suffolk Glen Cove Greenlawn Smithtown Oyster Bay Branch Glen St Huntington Westhampton Port Washington Branch Ronkonkoma Branch Port Sea Cliff Yaphank Speonk Washington Cold Spring Harbor Glen Head The Manhasset Syosset Medford Bronx Great Neck Plandome Greenvale Ronkonkoma Mastic-Shirley Little Neck Central Islip Douglaston Nassau Brentwood Flushing-Main St Auburndale Roslyn Bellport MurrayBroadway Hill Bayside Shea Stadium Great Patchogue New Hyde Park Deer Park River Oakdale Merillon Ave Albertson Hicksville Davis Park Mineola Wyandanch East Sayville Ferry Woodside Floral Park Williston Pinelawn Islip Bellerose Westbury Carle Place Bethpage Farmingdale Bay Shore Sayville Ferry Queens Service Manhattan Village QueensHollis Hempstead Branch Babylon Penn Hunterspoint Ave Hempstead Babylon Branch Fire Island Station Long Island City West Hempstead Ferries Lindenhurst West Hempstead Branch AmityvilleCopiague Jamaica Garden City Massapequa Park Nassau Blvd Hempstead Gardens SeafordMassapequa St Albans Wantagh AirTrain Stewart Manor Belmont Pk Lakeview Bellmore Forest Hills City Terminal Zone JFK Country Life PressMalverne Merrick Kew Gardens Westwood Freeport Baldwin Atlantic Ocean RosedaleValley Stream Rockville Centre Gibson Lynbrook Brooklyn Hewlett Centre Flatbush Ave Locust Manor Ave E Rockaway LaureltonWoodmere Nostrand Ave East New York Oceanside Cedarhurst Lawrence Island Park Brooklyn Inwood 293 Far Rockaway Long Beach Far Rockaway Branch Long Beach Branch Transit • Metro-North Railroad Transit • Metro-North Railroad

Wassaic Key are approximately 5 am to 3 am. Don’t miss the last Amtrak Tenmile River General Information to Albany Rail Station train out as they leave on time and wait for no one. Dover Plains NYC Phone: 212-532-4900 Poughkeepsie Wheelchair or ADA Accessible station All other areas: 800-METRO-INFO Harlem Valley–Wingdale Waterbury Bikes on Board Major transit hub Rail Station Branch Website: www.mta.info/mnr HUDSON LINE Appalachian Trail Waterbury DUTCHESS Connecting rail service Lost and Found (Grand Central): 212-340-2555 If you’re planning on taking your two-wheeler Pawling onboard, you’ll need to apply for a bicycle permit first. New Hamburg © 2004 Metropolitan Transportation Authority MTA Inspector General: 800-MTA-IG4U HARLEM LINE Design: Michael Hertz Associates, NYC An application form can be found on the Metro-North Amtrak Naugatuck to Hartford website at http://mta.info/mnr/html/mnrbikepermit. LITCHFIELD Overview Beacon Patterson & Springeld htm. The $5 permit fee and application can either Metro-North is an extremely accessible and efficient be mailed into the MTA, or processed right away at YORK Ho NEW usa to HAVEN n railroad with three of its main lines (Hudson, Harlem, window 27 at Grand Central Terminal. Breakneck Ridge NEW ic

CONNECTICUT Danbury R iv and New Haven) originating in Grand Central Station Branch e Cold Spring PUTNAM r Beacon Falls Southeast Danbury in Manhattan (42nd St & Park Ave). Those three lines Common sense rules for taking bikes on board Brewster Seymour Garrison east of the Hudson River, along with two lines west include: no bikes on escalators, no riding on the Bethel of the Hudson River that operate out of Hoboken, platform, and board the train after other passengers FAIRFIELD Ansonia Croton Falls NJ (not shown on map), form the second-largest have boarded. Unfortunately there are restrictions Manitou Redding Derby–Shelton Shore Line East to commuter railroad system in the US. Approximately on bicycles during peak travel times. Bicycles Purdy’s New London, Amtrak to Boston 250,000 commuters use the tri-state Metro-North are not allowed on trains departing from Grand Golden’s Bridge New Haven- New Haven- service each day for travel between New Jersey, Peekskill Union Station State St Central Terminal 7 am–9 am and 3:01 pm–8:15 Branchville New York, and Connecticut. Metro-North rail lines pm. Bikes are not permitted on trains arriving at WESTCHESTER Katonah cover roughly 2,700 square miles of territory. The Grand Central 5 am–10 am and 4 pm–8 pm. Don’t Cortlandt H Bedford Hills best thing about Metro-North is that it lands you at even think about taking your bike with you on New

u d Cannondale Milford Grand Central Station, one of the city’s finest pieces Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Mother’s s o Mount Kisco n Wilton of architecture. On weekdays, sneak into the land of Day, eve of Rosh Hashanah, eve of Yom Kippur, eve R Croton–Harmon Stratford iv platforms via the North Passage, accessible at 47th & e NEW HAVEN LINE of Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, r New Bridgeport Ossining Chappaqua Canaan 48th Streets. At least for now, it’s still legal to have an or Christmas Day—they’re not allowed. The Friday Branch New Canaan Merritt 7 Fair el Bridgeport & after work drink on Metro-North. During happy hour before any long weekend is also a no-no. There’s a Scar- Pleasantville YORK Southport Port Je erson borough NEW d (starting somewhere around 3 pm), hit the bar car or Green’s Steamboat Co. limit of two bikes per carriage, and four bikes per Talmadge Hill Westpor CONNECTICUT Philipse Hawthorne East Norwalk buy your booze in advance on the platform at Grand train at all times. Unfortunately, the same restrictions Manor Mt Pleasant Springdale Farm South Norwalk t Central. It might make you feel better about being a are not imposed on passengers with 4 Vera Bradley Tarrytown s Valhalla Glenbrook Rowayton NorotonDarien Heights wage slave. But beware of having too happy of an overnight bags heading off to the country house, North White Plains hour as the bathrooms can be stinky and not all cars but that is another story. Irvington Stamford Ardsley-on- White Plains RiversideOld Greenwich have them. Hudson GreenwichCos Cob Hartsdale nd Riders of folding bikes do not require a permit Dobbs Ferry Port Chester, N Sou Scarsdale nd and do not have to comply with the above rules, Hastings-on- Rye , C Isla Fares and Schedules T ng provided that the bike is folded at all times at Hudson Harrison Lo Greystone Crestwood Y Fare information is available on Metro-North’s stations and on trains. Tuckahoe Mamaroneck Glenwood Bronxville extraordinarily detailed website (along with in-depth Mt Larchmont Yonkers Vernon Fleetwood information on each station, full timetables, and Ludlow West New Rochelle excellent maps) or at Grand Central Station. The cost of Pets Wake eld Pelham Riverdale Mt Vernon East a ticket to ride varies depending on your destination Only seeing-eye dogs and small pets, if restrained or Spuyten Woodlawn Duyvil Williams Bridge so you should probably check the website before confined, are allowed aboard the trains. Marble Hill Botanical Garden University Hts Fordham setting out. Buy advance tickets on MTA’s WebTicket Morris Hts Tremont site for the cheapest fares. If you wait until you’re on THE One-Day Getaways Melrose BRONX the train to pay, it’ll cost you an extra $4.75–$5.50. Monthly and weekly rail passes are also available Metro-North offers “One-Day Getaway” packages on Harlem-125 St NASSAU its website. Packages include reduced rail fare and NEW for commuters. Daily commuters save 50% on fares YORK when they purchase a monthly travel pass. discounted entry to destinations along MNR lines including Bruce Museum ($20.50), Dia:Beacon ($27), Grand Central QUEENS Hudson River Museum/Andrus Planetarium ($14.50), Penn Terminal Station Hours Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk ($28.25), Mohegan PATH Train frequency depends on your destination and the Sun Casino ($38.25), New York Botanical Garden time of day that you’re traveling. On weekdays, peak- ($19.75), and Nyack ($14.50). WebTicket saves passengers 5% of the fare. The website also BROOKLYN period trains east of the Hudson River run every 20– 30 minutes; off-peak trains run every 30–60 minutes; suggests one-day hiking and biking excursions. 295 and weekend trains run hourly. Hours of operation Transit • PATH & Transit • PATH & Light Rail

Tonnelle Avenue PATH Train underground for up to a half an hour. During off hours the train runs on the same track through the Port Imperial General Information tunnel. This allows for maintenance to be completed Website: www.panynj.gov/path on the unused track. Phone: 800-234-7284 Police/Lost & Found: 201-216-6078 Hudson-Bergen Light Rail General Information Lincoln

Tonnelle Ave Ave Tonnelle Overview Harbor Website: http://www.mylightrail.com/ 33 St The PATH (Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corp.) is Phone: 800-772-2222 JFK Blvd JFK an excellent small rail system that services Newark, Hudson River 23 St WEEHAWKEN Jersey City, Hoboken, and Manhattan. There are a Overview 14 St few basic lines that run directly between 33rd Street (Herald Square) in Manhattan & Hoboken, 33rd Even though it’s called the Hudson-Bergen Light 9th St- 9 St Street & Jersey City, and Newark & the WTC. Transfers Rail system (HBLR, operated by NJ Transit), it actually Congress St MANHATTAN Christopher St between the lines are available at most stations. The only serves Hudson county. Bergen County residents 1 PATH can be quite useful for commuters on the west are still waiting for their long promised connection. 9 Hoboken 2nd St side of Manhattan when the subway isn’t running, The HBLR has brought about some exciting changes say, due to a sick passenger or mysterious police (a.k.a. “gentrifi cation”) in Jersey City, though Bayonne investigation. Additionally, you can catch the PATH remains (for the moment) totally, well…Bayonne. ack HOBOKEN H en Holland Tunnel Currently there are 23 stops (with at least one more s sk to Newark and then either jump in a cheap cab or a ula i Skw Pavonia- c P y

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e It’s a more economical option than taking a car all the service to Jersey City, Hoboken, Weehawken, and r Financial Journal Sq Harsimus Center WTC way in from Manhattan, and you can take it back to Union City. Transfer at the Hoboken stop for the PATH 7 Cove Harrison Exchange Pl the Village late at night when you’ve fi nished seeing into Manhattan. To Newark Grove St Exchange Pl a show at Maxwell’s in Hoboken. 1 Marin Blvd Battery Essex St Fares 9 Park Check the front or the sides of incoming trains to Jersey Ave determine their destination. Don’t be fooled by the The Light Rail is $1.90 per trip; reduced fare is 95 Upper TV screens installed at stations; they occasionally cents. Ten-trip tickets are $16.25, monthly passes Lincoln New York Park Bay announce the time of the next arrival, but as their cost $58, and monthly passes with parking are $93. main purpose is low-quality advertising, they are Unless you have a monthly pass, you need to validate Ave Ellis Governors often incorrect. Also, don’t assume that if a Journal your ticket before boarding at a Ticket Validating Liberty Island Square train just passed through, the next train is Machine (TVM). Once validated, tickets are only valid 440 State Island Park going to Hoboken. Often there will be two Journal for 90 minutes, so don’t buy too far in advance. The Square trains in a row, followed by two Hoboken trains and stations have random fare inspection and Garfield Ave King Dr Liberty trains. During the weekend, PATH service can be the fi ne for fare evasion is $100. Martin Luther New Jersey Tpke Island excruciatingly slow and confusing, and is best only West Side Ave JERSEY Richard St endeavored with a seasoned rider. Hours CITY Light rail service operates between 5 am and 1:30 78 Fares Key am. Times are approximate, check the website for Danforth Ave The PATH costs a buck fi fty one-way. Regular riders exact schedules on each line. PATH can purchase 11-trip, 20-trip, and 40-trip QuickCards, Light Rail which reduce the fare per journey to $1.20–$1.36. Bikes on Board New Jersey Tpke Extension The fare for seniors (65+) is $1 per ride. You can also use pay-per-ride MTA MetroCards for easy transition Bikes are allowed (no permit or fee required) on board between the PATH and subway. during off -peak times—weekdays from 9:30 am to 4 pm and 7 pm to 6 am, and all day Saturday, Sunday, and NJ state holidays. Bicycles have to be accompanied Hudson 45th St Hours on the low-fl oor vestibule section of each rail car. County Park The PATH runs 24/7 (although a modifi ed service

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JFK Blvd JFK Pets 34th St am, S, S, & H). Daytime service is pretty consistent, but the night schedule for the PATH is a bit confusing, Small pets are allowed, as long as they’re confi ned to so make sure to look at the map. You may be waiting a carry container. Service animals are permitted at all times. 297 22nd St BAYONNE

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Otisville Campbell Hall federal funds necessary for construction. The former Middletown Salisbury Mills - Cornwall General Information Port Jervis Line Secaucus Transfer Station is now offi cially known as Orange Address: 1 Penn Plz E Port Jervis the Frank R. Lautenberg Station at Newark, NJ 07105 (which, if you want to get technical, is not actually Harriman Phone: 973-491-7000 or a junction). We’re certain that most commuters will NEW YORK NEW JERSEY 800-772-2222 adopt this name whenever referring to the station, or Website: www.njtransit.com Station Tuxedo maybe they’ll just call it “Secaucus.” Rockland Quik-Tik (monthly passes): 866-QUIK-TIK Under Contruction Station For riders, the biggest advantage of the new station Sloatsburg Pascack Valley Line Emergency Hotline: 973-378-6565 Newark Lost and Found: 973-491-8792 is that they no longer have to travel out to Hoboken Suffern Spring Valley to get to Penn Station. (Secaucus is just an 8-minute Nanuet Hoboken Lost and Found: 201-714-2739 Mahwah ride from Penn Station.) The Secaucus hub connects Sussex New York Lost and Found: 212-630-7389 Main Line & Bergen County Line Ramsey Pearl River AirTrain: 973-961-6230 ten of NJ Transit’s 11 rail lines, and also off ers service Allendale Montvale Park Ridge Hudson River to Newark Airport, downtown Newark, Trenton, and Waldwick Atlantic City Terminal: 609-343-7174 Passaic Woodcliff Lake Ho-Ho-Kus the Jersey Shore. A Hillsdale Montclair-Boonton Line Ridgewood Westwood Overview MidTOWN DIRECT Service to Lincoln Glen Rock-Main Line Glen Rock- Emerson Boro Hall Fares and Schedules New York from Montclair Heights Towaco Park Hawthorne Oradell NJ Transit carries hundreds of thousands of New Note: no weekend service Radburn- Fair Lawn River Edge Jersey commuters to New York every morning and Fares and schedules can be obtained at Hoboken, Mt Olive Mtn View-Wayne Paterson Lake Hopatcong Broadway- North Hackensack Boonton Little Falls returns them to their suburban enclaves at the end Newark, Penn Station, on NJ Transit’s website, or by Netcong Dover Denville Fair Lawn Anderson St Mountain Lakes Great Notch Plauderville HACKENSACK of the day. The trains are usually clean (and immune calling NJ Transit. If you wait to pay until you’re on the Montclair State Univ Clifton Montclair Heights Garfield Essex St to the weirdness that plagues the LIRR), but some train, you’ll pay an extra fi ve bucks for the privilege. Warren Mt Tabor Mountain Ave Passaic Teterboro-Williams Ave Hackettstown Upper Montclair NJ Transit also off ers discounted monthly, weekly, Morris Delawanna lines (like the Pascack Valley Line) seem to just creep Watchung Ave Wood-Ridge Walnut St Lyndhurst along, which can be problematic when you’re trying weekend, and ten-trip tickets for regular commuters. Morris Plains Rutherford Morris and Essex Lines Bay St New to make a transfer before reaching the Big Apple. But Glen Ridge MidTOWN DIRECT Service to New York Kingsland York Morristown Bloomfield City with many new stations, including the renovated from Dover and Gladstone Essex Watsessing Pets Convent Secaucus Highland Ave Junction transfer station at Secaucus, and an expanded Light Mountain Station New York Only seeing-eye dogs and small pets in carry-on Madison Penn Station Rail system (see PATH page), NJ Transit is staying Basking South Orange Chatham Orange containers are allowed aboard the trains and buses. Bernardsville Ridge competitive with all other modes of transportation New Providence Newark Hudson Hoboken Gladstone Newark Penn Station Murray Hill Broad St into and out of the city. NJ Transit also runs an Peapack Lyons BrickEast Church Orange Newark Liberty Union International Airport AirTrain to Newark Airport. As the rails have been Bikes Summit Far Hills Millburn High Bridge Short Hills Maplewood Roselle North Elizabeth CranfordPark prone to power loss and broken switches lately, Annandale Union Garwood Elizabeth You can take your bicycle onboard a NJ Transit train Gillette Westfield Lebanon Stirling Fanwood NJ Transit won’t be competing with Japanese rail only during off -peak hours (weekdays from 9:30 White House Millington Netherwood Linden systems any time soon, but riding their rails generally Plainfield am–4 pm, and from 7 pm–5 am) and during all hours Staten North Branch Berkeley Heights Rahway beats waiting in traffi c at the three measly Hudson Dunellen Island on the weekends. Bikes are not allowed on board Avenel River automobile crossings. NJ Transit also off ers bus Raritan most holidays, or the Fridays prior to any holiday Somerville BridgewaterBound Brook Metropark Woodbridge lines to Hoboken and Newark for areas not served by Metuchen weekend; however, a folding frame bicycle can be train lines. taken onboard at any time. Most NJ Transit buses Hunterdon Edison Perth Amboy Atlantic Ocean participate in the “Rack ‘n’ Roll” program, which allows Somerset New Brunswick South Amboy Jersey Ave Secaucus Transfer Station you to load your bike right on to the front of the bus. The three-level train hub at Secaucus is celebrating Aberdeen-Matawan Middlesex its fi fth birthday! The station cost around $450 B Hazlet Middletown million and took 14 years to complete. The building Northeast Corridor Line is dedicated to Democratic New Jersey Senator Frank Red Bank R. Lautenberg, who was responsible for securing the Princeton Little Silver PrincetonMercer Branch Princeton Junction Monmouth Park (seasonal service) Long Branch

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Philadelphia International Airport Transit • Amtrak Transit • Penn Station

Overview Going to Boston General Information Phone: 800-USA-RAIL Amtrak usually runs 18 trains daily to Boston. One-way NFT Map: 9 Website: www.amtrak.com fares cost $59–$101, and the trip, which ends at South Address: 7th Ave & 33rd St Station in downtown Boston, takes about four-and-a- General Information (Amtrak): 800-872-7245 half hours door-to-door. For $117 one-way, you can ride MTA Subway Stops: MTA Bus Lines: General Information the high speed (“acceleration” and “excellence” Train Lines: LIRR, Amtrak, NJ Transit Amtrak is our national train system, and while it’s not combined into one word, though perhaps “expensive” LaGuardia Airport Bus Service: NY Airport Service, 212-875-8200, $12 particularly punctual or affordable, it will take you to many would have been more appropriate) and complete the JFK Airport Bus Service: NY Airport Service, 212-875-8200, $15 major northeastern cities in half a day or less. Spending journey in three to three-and-a-half hours—if there are Passengers per day: 600,000 a few hours on Amtrak also makes you want to move to not track problems. Europe where France is now running trains at 357 mph (as opposed to 35 mph in the US). But if you plan a trip at Overview the last minute and miss the requisite advance on buying Going to Penn Station, designed by McKim, Mead & White (New York’s greatest architects), is a Beaux Arts treasure, filled with light and… airline tickets or want to bring liquids with you with About 40 Amtrak trains pass through Philadelphia every oh wait, that’s the one that was torn down. Penn Station is essentially a basement, complete with well-weathered leather chairs, checking baggage, you might want to shop Amtrak’s fares. day. One-way tickets cost about $45–$60 on a regular unidentifiable dust particles, and high-cholesterol snack food. Its claim to fame is that it is the busiest Amtrak station in the country. If Bonus: Amtrak allows you to talk on cell phones in most Amtrak train; if you’re really in a hurry, you can take the the government gods are with us, the plan to convert the eastern half of the Farley Post Office (also designed by McKim, Mead & White) cars and has plugs for laptop computers at your seat. special “Metroliner” service for $87, which will get you next door to an above-ground, light-filled station will come to fruition. With bureaucracy at hand, we aren’t holding our collective there in an hour and fifteen minutes, or the Acela for $81, breath. Until then, Penn Station will go on servicing 600,000 people per day in the rat’s maze under Madison Square Garden. Amtrak was created by the federal government in 1971. which takes about one hour from station to station. The Penn Station services Amtrak, the LIRR, and NJ Transit trains. Amtrak, which is surely the worst national train system of any first- Today, Amtrak services 500+ stations in 46 states (Alaska, cheapest rail option to Philly is actually to take NJ Transit world country, administers the station. How is it that the Europeans have bullet trains and it still takes 3 or more hours to get from Hawaii, South Dakota, and Wyoming sadly do not have the to Trenton and then hook up with Eastern Pennsylvania’s NYC to DC? While we’re hoping the new station proposal will come through, will it help the crazed LIRR commuters struggling to pleasure of being serviced by Amtrak). While not being excellent SEPTA service—this will take longer, but will cost squish down stairwells to catch the 6:05 to Ronkonkoma? We can only hope. as advanced as the Eurail system, Amtrak serves over 24 you under $25. Some commuters take this EVERY day. Dieters traveling through Penn Station should pre-pack snacks. The fast food joints are just too tempting. Donuts and ice cream million passengers a year, employs 19,000 people, still Thank your lucky stars you’re probably not one of them. and KFC, oh my! Leave yourself time to pick up some magazines and a bottle of water for your train trip. It may turn out to be has the same décor it did in the early 1970s, and provides longer than you think. “contract-commuter services” for several state and Going to Washington DC The plus side to Penn is that it’s easy to get to from just about anywhere in the city via subway or bus. If you are just too ritzy to take regional rail lines. the MTA (or you have an abundance of baggage), have your cab driver drop you off anywhere surrounding the station except for (Subtitle: How Much is Your Time Worth?) 7th Avenue—it is constantly jammed with tour buses and cabs trying to drop off desperately late passengers. Red Caps (station agents) are very helpful, especially for Amtrak runs over 40 trains daily to DC and the prices vary passengers traveling with children and strollers. The only dramatically. The cheapest trains cost $69 one-way and problem is finding an available one! take just under four hours. The Acela service costs more Terminal Shops than double at $125-$146 one-way, and delivers you to On the LIRR Level Seattle Coffee Roasters On the Amtrak Level Gifts & Electronics our nation’s capital in less than three hours (sometimes). Food & Drink Soup King Food & Drink GNC Amtrak in New York Worth it? Only you can say. Depending on what time of Auntie Anne’s Soft Pretzels Soup Man/Smoothie King (2) Auntie Anne’s Soft Pretzels (2) Hudson News (3) In New York City, Amtrak runs out of Pennsylvania Station, day you travel, you may be better off taking the cheaper Blimpie Starbucks Baskin Robbins Joseph Lawrence Jewelers an eyesore currently located underneath Madison Square train when the Acela will only save you 30 minutes. Caruso’s Pizza Subway Deli New York New York Garden. We treat the station like our annoying little Carvel TGI Friday’s Dunkin’ Donuts Shoetrician—Shoe repair brother, calling it Penn for short and avoiding it when we Cinnabon Tracks Raw Bar & Grill Don Pepi Pizza and shine Colombo Frozen Yogurt Houlihan’s Restaurant & Bar Tiecoon can. But don’t despair—chances are the city you’ll wind A Note About Fares Dunkin’ Donuts Other Nathan’s/Carvel The Petal Pusher up in will have a very nice station, and, if all goes well, While the prices quoted above for Boston, Philly, and DC Europan Café Carlton Cards Kabooz’s Bar and Grille Staples so will we, once the front half of the Farley Post Office is destinations tend to remain fairly consistent, fare rates Haagen Dazs Dreyfus Financial Center Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Tourist Information Center converted to a “new” Penn Station. Warning: If you hop in a to other destinations, such as , Chicago, etc., Hot & Crusty Duane Reade Penn Sushi Verizon Wireless cab to get to Amtrak, specify that you want to be dropped can vary depending on how far in advance you book Hot Dog Stand GNC Pizza Hut off at Eighth Avenue and 33rd Street in order to avoid your seat. For “rail sales” and other discounts, check www. KFC Hudson News (4) Primo! Cappuccino (3) There is a Wachovia 24-hour LIRR and Madison Square Garden foot traffic. Don’t let the amtrak.com. Military IDs will save you a bundle, so use Knot Just Pretzels K-Mart Roy Rogers ATM and a PNC Bank ATM cabbie argue with you, especially if you have luggage. He them if you have them. Occasionally (or rarely), Amtrak Le Bon Café Petal Pusher Soup Man/Smoothie King/ located on the Amtrak level. is just trying to make his life easier. offers discounts that can be found on their website under McDonald’s Penn Books Sodutto Ice Cream There is a Bank of America “Hot Deals.” Nedick’s Perfumania Zaro’s Bread Basket (2) 24-hour ATM and a 24-hour Pizza Hut Soleman—Shoe repair, HSBC ATM located on the Popular Destinations Primo! Cappuccino locksmith Other LIRR level, in addition to the Baggage Check Rose Pizza and Pasta Verizon Wireless Book Corner generic (money-thieving) Many New Yorkers use Amtrak to get to Boston, Salad Chef/Burger Chef Duane Reade ATMs located in several stores Philadelphia, or Washington DC. Of course, these are the (Amtrak Passengers) Elegance throughout the station. New Yorkers who are traveling on an expense account or fear the Chinatown bus service. Amtrak also runs a line up A maximum of three items may be checked up to thirty to Montreal and through western New York state (making minutes before departure. Up to three additional bags Temporary Parcel/Baggage Check stops in Buffalo, Rochester, Albany, etc.) Check Amtrak’s may be checked for a fee of $10 (two carry-on items The only facility for storing parcels and baggage in Penn Station is at the Baggage Check on the Amtrak level (to the left of the website for a complete listing of all Amtrak stations. allowed). No electronic equipment, plastic bags, or paper ticket counter). There are no locker facilities at Penn Station. The Baggage Check is open from 5:15 am until 10 pm and costs $4.50 bags may be checked. See the “Amtrak Policies” section of per item for each 24-hour period. their website for details. 301 Transit • Grand Central Terminal Transit • Grand Central Terminal

Tracks 42 35 Main Concourse General Information Tracks 34 11 58 NFT Map: 13 Biltmore Room 57 Address: 42nd St & Park Ave 2 General Information: 212-340-2210 5 1 Lost and Found: 212-340-2555 4 13 Website: www.grandcentralterminal.com Station 63 64 65 66 Graybar Passage Vanderbilt Ave Vanderbilt Exit to 39 62 MTA Subway Stops: Master's Office MetLife 14 15 16 17 18 19 MTA Bus Lines: Building 21 22 23 24 25 Other Rail Lines: Metro North 6 7 20 Grand Central Market 26a 26b 27 28 29 30 31 33 Newark Airport Bus Service: Olympia, 877-8-NEWARK, $14 8 CH Information 34 67 LaGuardia Airport Bus Service: NY Airport Express, 718-875-8200, $12 9 35 36 37 61 38 40 41 Ticketing/ Ticketing/ Lexington Ave 60 Train Board Train Board Lexington Passage JFK Airport Bus Service: NY Airport Express, 718-875-8200, $15 10 68 54 42 59 43 44b 44a 45 46 47 48 49 Ramp Down Ramp Down 51 Overview 11 50 4 5 6 7 S Vanderbilt 52 Grand Central Terminal, designed in the Beaux Arts style by Warren & Wetmore, is by far the most beautiful of 12 Hall 53 55 Manhattan’s major terminals, and it is considered one of the most stunning terminals in the world. Its convenient 4 7 56 Banana Republic Kenneth Cole location in the heart of Midtown and its refurbishments only add to its intrinsic appeal. The only downside is S EXIT EXIT EXIT 5 that the station will only get you on a train as far north as Dutchess County or as far east as New Haven via 4 5 6 42nd St 7 S 6 Metro North—in order to head to the Island or Jersey, you’ll have to hoof it over to GCT’s architecturally ugly stepsister Penn Station. Balcony Dining Concourse If you ever find yourself underestimating the importance of the Grand Central renovations (begun in 1996 Tracks 117 101 with continued work and maintenance today), just take a peek at the ceiling toward the Vanderbilt Avenue Michael Jordan's side—the small patch of black shows how dirty the ceiling was previously. And it was really dirty… The Steakhouse NYC 3 76 Diners have any number of choices from Michael Jordan’s The Steak House NYC or Metrazur (for those seeking Metrazur 62 77 63 fine dining) to the food court on the lower level (perfect for commuters or those intent on saving a few bucks). 78 West East 80 82 83 After hitting the raw stuff at Oyster Bar, go right outside its entrance to hear a strange audio anomaly: If you and EXIT 79 Dining Dining 81 64 Information 75 a friend stand in opposite corners and whisper, you’ll be able to hear each other clearly. You can even do some 74 Cipriani 65 grocery shopping in the Grand Central Market on the east side of the main concourse. Alternatively, folks looking Dolce 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 to hit the sauce may do so in 1920s grandeur in The Campbell Apartment near the Vanderbilt Avenue entrance. EXIT Ramp from

Vanderbilt Ave Vanderbilt MAP Main Concourse Level Grand Central Station offers three tours: the hour-long LaSalle Tour (212-340-2345, $50 for small groups, $5/ The 13 person for groups over 10, payment required in advance), the Municipal Arts Society Tour (212-935-3960, $10 Campbell Oyster Bar & Restaurant Apartment suggested donation), and the Grand Central Partnership Tour (212-883-2420, free). Grand Central’s website also offers a printer-friendly walking tour guide for visitors who want to wander on their own. Stores Dining Concourse 1. Eddie’s Shoe Repair 24. Ceriello Fine Foods 46. Pink Slip ATMs West Dining 2. Eastern News 25. Greenwich Produce 47. TOTO 62. Paninoteca Italiana Chase Dishes 3. Dahlia 26a. Pescatore Seafood Company 48. LaCrasia Gloves & Accessories 63. Chirping Chicken 4. Junior's 26b. Dishes at Home 49. Godiva Chocolatier Numerous generic (money-thieving) ATMs at stores Ciao Bella Gelateria 64. Eata Pita 5. Starbucks 27. Li-Lac Chocolates 50. Super Runners Shop throughout the station. Chirping Chicken 65. Feng Shui 6. New York Transit Museum 28. Oren’s Daily Roast 51. Papyrus 66. Mendy’s Kosher Deli Eata Pita 7. Zaro’s Bread Basket 29. Penzeys Spices 52. Oren’s Daily Roast 67. Mendy’s Kosher Dairy 8. Discovery Channel Store 30. Zaro’s Bread Basket 53. Douglas Cosmetics Feng Shui 68. Masa Sushi East Dining 9. Posman Books 31. Wild Edibles 54. Joon Stationary Hale and Hearty Soups 69. Juniors 10. Rite Aid 33. Corrado Bread & Pastry 55. Super Runners Shop Brother Jimmy’s BBQ 70. Zôcala Junior’s 11. Central Market 34. Forever Silver 56. Neuhaus Boutique 71. Central Market Grill Café Spice 12. Hot & Crusty 35. Grand Central Optical 57. Grand Central Raquet Masa Sushi 72. Jacques-imo’s To Geaux Central Market Grill 13. Zaro’s Bread Basket 36. Tumi 58. Central Watch Band Stand Mendy’s Kosher Dairy 73. Brother Jimmy’s BBQ 14. Oliviers & Co 37. L’Occitane 59. Flowers on Lexington Golden Krust Patties 74. Two Boots Pizza Mendy’s Kosher Delicatessen 15. Grande Harvest Wines 38. Bose 60. Hudson News 75. Café Spice Jaques-Imo’s to Geaux 16. Cobbler & Shine 39. Our Name is Mud 61. Access Artisans New York Pretzel 76. Golden Krust Patties Little Pie Company 17. Stop'N Go Wireless 40. Aveda 62. Rosetta Stone Paninoteca Italiana 77. New York Pretzel 18. Metropolitan Museum Art Store 41. Starbucks 63. Carolyn Forsman Caffé Pepe Rosso 78. Ciao Bella Gelateria 19. GNC 42. Swatch 64. Laila Rowe 79. Hale and Hearty Soups Two Boots 20. Hudson News 43. Origins 65. Canine Styles 80. Zaro’s Bread Basket Zaro’s Bread Basket 21. Greenwich Produce 44a. Children’s General Store 66. Posman Books 81. Little Pie Company 22. Koglin German Hams 44b. Leeper Kids 67. Flowers on Lexington Zócalo Bar and Restaurant 82. Dishes 23. Murray’s Cheese 45. Altitunes 68. Choice Foreign Currency 303 83. Caffé Peppe Rosso Transit • Port Authority Bus Terminal Transit • Port Authority Bus Terminal

General Information Bus Company Phone Area Served NFT Map: 11 Academy Bus 800-442-7272 Serves New York City, including Staten Island, Wall Street, Address: 41st St & 8th Ave Transportation Port Authority, and New Jersey, including Hoboken www.academybus.com General Information: 212-564-8484 Kinney Garage: 212-502-2341 Adirondak New York & 800-776-7548 Serves all of New York State with coach connections Website: www.panynj.gov/CommutingTravel/bus/html/pa.html Pine Hill Trailways throughout the US. www.trailwaysny.com Subway: Port Authority Capitol Trailways 800-333-8444 Service between Pennsylvania, , New York State, Times Square and New York City. www.capitoltrailways.com MTA Bus Lines: Newark Airport Bus Service: Olympia, 212-964-6233, $13 Carl Bieber Bus 800-243-2374 Service to and from Port Authority and Wall Street in New York LaGuardia Airport Bus Service: NY Airport Express, 718-875-8200, $12 and Reading, Kutztown, Wescosville, Hellertown, and Easton, JFK Airport Bus Service: NY Airport Express, 718-875-8200, $15 Pennsylvania. www.biebertourways.com Coach USA 800-522-4514 Service between New York City and W Orange, Livingston, Morristown, E Hanover, Whippany, and Floram Park, Overview New Jersey. www.coachusa.com Devised as a solution to New York City’s horrendous Ralph Kramden located outside of the south wing. The DeCamp Bus 800-631-1281 Service between New York City and New Jersey, including the bus congestion, the Port Authority Bus Terminal was grungiest area of the terminal is the lower bus level, which Meadowlands. www.decamp.com completed in 1950. The colossal structure consolidated is dirty and exhaust-filled, best visited just a few minutes midtown Manhattan’s eight, separate, interstate bus before you need to board your bus. The chart on the right Greyhound Bus 800-231-2222 Serves most of the US and Canada. stations into one convenient drop-off and pick-up point. shows which bus companies run out of the Port Authority www.greyhound.com Back in the day the Port Authority held the title of “largest and provides a basic description of their destinations. Gray Line Bus 212-397-2620 Service offered throughout the US and Canada. bus terminal in the world,” but for now we’ll have to be www.grayline.com content with merely the biggest depot in the United If you can, avoid interstate bus rides from the Port States. The Port Authority is located on the north and south Authority on the busiest travel days of the year. The lines Lakeland Bus 973-366-0600 Service between New York and New Jersey. sides of W 41st Street (b/w Eighth Ave & Ninth Ave) in a are long, the people are cranky, and some of the larger www.lakelandbus.com neighborhood that real-estate agents haven’t yet graced bus companies hire anyone who shows up with a valid 800-233-8604 Service between New York and Pennsylvania. with an official name. How about Greyhound Gardens? bus operator’s license and their very own bus (apparently, www.martzgroup.com easier to obtain than you might think). The odds of having a There are plenty of things to do should you find that you’ve disastrous trip skyrocket when the driver is unfamiliar with New Jersey Transit 800-772-2222 Serves New York, New Jersey, and Philadelphia. got some time to kill here. Send a postcard from the post the usual itinerary. www.njtransit.com office, donate blood at the blood bank on the main floor, NY Airport Service 212-875-8200 Service between Port Authority and Kennedy and LaGuardia use the refurbished bathrooms, bowl a few frames and have On Easter Sunday, Christmas Eve, or Thanksgiving, one can airports. www.nyairportservice.com a cocktail at Leisure Time Bowl, or eat fancy French food at see all the angst-ridden sons and daughters of suburban the ambitious sit-down restaurant, Metromarche, located in New Jersey parents joyfully waiting in cramped, disgusting 212-964-6233 Provides express bus service between Manhattan and the south wing (they’re really trying to class up the joint). corridors for that nauseating bus ride back to Leonia or Newark Airport. Makes stops all over New York City, There are also many souvenir carts, newsstands, and on- Morristown or Plainfield or wherever. A fascinating sight. including Penn Station, Grand Central, and many the-go restaurants, as well as a statue of beloved bus driver connections with hotel shuttles. www.olympiabus.com Peter Pan Lines 800-343-9999 Serves the East, including Boston, New Hampshire, Maine, Philly, Terminal Shops DC. Also goes to Canada. www.peterpanbus.com (NY) 845-356-0877 Services New York’s Port Authority, GW bridge, 44th Street, South Wing— Jamba Juice Leisure Time Bowling North Wing—Main and 8th Street to and from most of Bergen County and Lower Bus Level Hudson News Center Concourse upstate New York. www.coachusa.com/rockland Green Trees Hudson News Book Corner McAnn’s Pub Continental Airlines Hudson News Marrella Men’s Hair Stylist Mrs Fields Bakery Café Hudson News ShortLine Bus 800-631-8405 Serves the New York City airports, Atlantic City, and the Hudson NY Blood Center Munchy’s Gourmet Mrs Fields Cookies Valley. www.shortlinebus.com South Wing— Radio Shack Sak’s Florist Subway Mezzanine North Wing—on 42nd Suburban 732-249-1100 Offers commuter service from Central New Jersey to and Ruthie’s Hallmark Sweet Factory Au Bon Pain Street from Port Authority and Wall Street. Also services between Stop ‘n Go Wireless Hudson News South Wing—Fourth Floor Big Apple Café the Route 9 Corridor and New York City. Strawberry Music Explosion First Stop-Last Stop Café www.coachusa.com/suburban US Postal Service North Wing—Second Floor Hudson News South Wing— Villa Pizza Bank of America (ATM) Susquehanna Trailways 800-692-6314 Service to and from New York City and Newark (Greyhound Main Concourse World’s Fare Restaurant Bar North Wing-Lower Bus Level Hudson News Terminal) and Summerville, New Jersey, and many stops in Metromarche Zaro’s Bakery Snacks-N-Wheels Jay’s Hallmark Bookstore Central Pennsylvania, ending in Williamsport and Lock Haven. Au Bon Pain Tropica Juice Bar www.susquehannabus.com South Wing—Second Floor North Wing—Subway Auntie Anne’s USO Café Metro Mezzanine Trans-Bridge Lines 610-868-6001 Offers service between New York, Pennsylvania, and Casa Java Drago Shoe Repair Bank of America (ATM) North Wing—Third Floor 800-962-9135 New Jersey, including Newark and Kennedy airports. Deli Plus Bank of America Green Trees Hudson News Red & Tan Hudson County (NJ) 908-354-3330 Serves New York City and Hudson County, New Jersey. Duane Reade Hudson News Book Corner Hudson News Tropica Juice Bar www.coachusa.com/redandtan GNC Kelly Film Express 305 Transit • GWB Bus Terminal Transit • Chinatown Buses

Boston Deluxe • General Information Bus Companies General Information 917-662-7552 or 646-773-3816 • www.bostondeluxe.com NFT Map: 23 Air Brook • 800-800-1990 • airbrook.com NFT Map: 3 • To Boston at 9 am, 12:30 pm, and 6 pm. From 1250 Websites: www.chinatown-bus.com Broadway & 32nd St or 88 E Broadway to 175 Huntington Address: 4211 Broadway & 178th St To Atlantic City (Tropicana) www.chinatown-bus.org Ave: one-way $15, round trip $30. Phone: 800-221-9903 or 212-564-8484 • To Hartford at 8:30 am, 12:30 pm, and 5:30 pm. From the Website: http://www.panynj.gov/ Astro-Eastern Bus Company • same pick-up points to 365 Capital Ave: one-way $15, CommutingTravel/bus/html/gwb. 201-865-2230 • easternbuses.com Overview round trip $30. html Trips to (purchase tickets on the upper level). There are several inexpensive bus lines running from Washington Deluxe • 866-BUS-NY-DC • www.washny.com Subway: (175th St), (181st St) Chinatown in New York City to the respective Chinatowns in • To Washington several times a day; From 34th St & 8th Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Richmond, and Atlanta. Ave. Additional departures from Delancey & Allen Buses: Express Bus Service • If you’re lucky, you’ll catch a kung-fu movie on board, but 973-881-9122 • expressbusservice.com Sts, and several locations in Williamsburg to various be prepared for an ‘80s “classic” like Turner & Hooch. Tickets locations in DC. Schedule varies by day of the week, so it’s Overview To Elmwood Park, Englewood, Fort Lee, Hackensack, usually cost $15–20 each way, and can be purchased online recommended that you check the website for info. One- Paramus, Paterson, River Edge, and Teaneck (all or in person at pick-up locations. way $20, round-trip $35. Change is coming slowly to the George Washington stops on Route 4). Cheaper than planes and trains, the Chinatown buses have Dragon Deluxe • Bridge Bus Terminal, though we can hope it will become extraordinarily popular. They are in such demand never lose its “lived-in” charm. The Port Authority has 800-475-1160 or 212-966-5130 • www.dragondeluxe.com New Jersey Transit • that Greyhound and Trailways have lowered their online fares • To Washington DC six times a day between 7:30 am and cleaned the station up a bit, added some needed 800-772-2222 • njtransit.com/sf_bu.shtml to compete. That said, Chinatown buses are an infinitely more 11:30 pm. From 153 Lafayette St or Broadway & W 32nd adventurous mode of transportation. The odds are high that signage, and improved the lighting, but any place To 60th St, Bergenfield, Bogota, Cliffside Park, St-Herald Square to 14th & L Sts: one-way $20, round trip you’ll experience at least one problem during the course of $35. with pigeons routinely wandering through the Coytesville, Dumont, Edgewater (including Edgewater your trip including, but not limited to, poor customer service, indoors can never be too chic. Hit some downtime • To six times a day between 7:30 am and 11:30 Commons Mall), Englewood, Englewood Cliffs, unmarked bus stops, late departures, less than ideal bus pm. From the same pick-up points to 5600 O’Donnell St: before your bus arrives and your entertainment West Englewood, Fair Lawn (including the Radburn conditions, and hucking or spitting from other passengers. one-way $20, round trip $35. More pertinent problems include cancelled or delayed trips options are limited to people-watching, opening a section), Fairview, Fort Lee, Glen Rock, Guttenberg, • To Albany at 7:30 am and 5:30 pm. From the same pick-up without warning, breakdowns, fires, broken bathrooms (or points to Madison Ave (between the New York State new bank account, or placing bets at OTB. If you luck Hackensack (including NJ Bus Transfer), Hoboken, none at all), stolen luggage, and drop-offs on the side of the out and the weather’s nice, though, the view of the Museum and Empire State Plaza): one-way $25, round trip North Hackensack (Riverside Square), Irvington, road near the highway because bus companies don’t have $45 bridge upstairs is pretty sweet. Jersey City, Kearney, Leonia, Maywood, Newark, North permission to deliver passengers to central transportation • To Woodbury Commons at 7:30 am and 5:30 pm. From the hubs. Conversely, service has improved greatly in the past few Bergen, Paramus (including the Bergen Mall and same pick-ups points to Woodbury Commons: one-way years, and many people have enjoyed dirt-cheap, hassle-free $15, round trip $30. Stores Garden State Plaza), Paterson (including Broadway experiences on the Chinatown buses. It’s probably not the Terminal), Ridgewood, Rochelle Park, Teaneck best choice for families, but anyone else should give it a try. Lower Level: Eastern Travel • 212-244-6132 • www.easternshuttle.com (including Glenpointe and Holy Name Hospital), • To Washington DC 6–12 times a day between 7:30 am and Bridge Stop Newsstand A few tips to make your trip easier: 1) MAKE SURE YOU GET ON Union City, Weehawken, and West New York. 7:30 pm; From 88 E Broadway, 430 7th Ave at W 34th HealthPlus Healthcare THE RIGHT BUS. We cannot emphasize this enough. Do not be St, or 5 Times Square (in front of the Ernst &Young embarrassed to ask everyone on the bus which city they’re Subway Pedestrian Walkway Building) to 715 H Street in Washington DC: one-way $20, Red & Tan/Coach USA • going to. 2) Do not sit anywhere near the bathroom. You will round trip $35. NJT T Ticket Vending Machines smell the intense, probably illegal, cleaning products for the 201-876-9000 • coachusa.com/redandtan • To Baltimore 6–12 times a day between 7:30 am and 7:30 Port of Calls/Retail Pushcarts first half of the ride, and your fellow passengers’ business for the To Alpine, Bergenfield, Blauvelt, Bradlees Shopping pm. From same pickup-point to 5501 O’Donnell St Cut Off: second half. 3) If the bus isn’t full, it’s perfectly fine to take your one-way $20, round trip $35. Center, Closter, Congers, Creskill, Demarest, Dumont, luggage onboard with you if you’re worried about theft. This is Concourse: Emerson, Englewood, Englewood Cliffs, Grandview, an especially good idea when leaving the New York stations. ATM New Century Travel • 215-627-2666 • www.2000coach.com Harrington Park, Haverstraw, Haworth, Hillsdale, Linwood • To Philadelphia every hour between 7 am and 11 pm. Bridge Stop Newsstand Passengers should arrive at least 30 minutes prior to scheduled Park, Montvale, Nanuet, (including Nanuet Shopping From 88 E Broadway or 5994 8th Ave, Williamsburg Dentists—Howard Bloom, DDS; Steve Kaufman DDS departure. Schedules and prices are subject to change at a (7 am only) to 55 N 11th St: one-way $12, round trip $20. Mall), Nauraushaun, New City, New Milford, Northvale moment’s notice, so it’s helpful to call or consult the company’s E-Z Visions Travel • To DC eight times between 7 am and 11 pm; From 88 E (including Northvale Industrial Park), Norwood, Nyack, website right before you leave. If you walk down East Broadway Broadway to 513 H St NW: one-way $20, round trip $35. Food Plus Café under the Manhattan Bridge, chances are people on the street Oradell, Orangeburg, Palisades, Park Ridge, Pearl River, • To Richmond at 5 pm and 1 am. From 88 E Broadway to GW Books and Electronics will solicit you without even having to ask. Buses vary in quality Piermont, Rivervale, Rockland Lake, Rockland Psych 2808 W Broad St: one-way $40, round-trip $60. HealthPlus Healthcare from company to company and even from day to day. Fung Center, Rockleigh (including Rockleigh Industrial Park), Wah has been around the longest and is generally considered Neighborhood Trust Federal Credit Union Today’s Bus • 212-964-6334 • www.todaysbus.com South Nyack, Sparkill, Spring Valley, Stony Point, Tappan, the best line, although Lucky Star is a close second. To read user • To Philadelphia every hour between 7:15 am and 11 pm. New York National Bank reviews, visit www.chinatown-bus.com. Tenafly, Upper Nyack, Valley Cottage, West Haverstraw, From 88 E Broadway to 1041 Race St: one-way $12, round Off-Track Betting Westwood, and Woodcliff Lake. trip $20. Pizza Palace Bus Companies • To DC 14 times a day between 7:15 am and 11 pm. From Terminal Barber Shop 88 E Broadway to 610 I St NW: one-way $20, round trip $35. Saddle River Tours • Fung Wah Transportation Inc. • • To Norfolk, VA, at 6 pm. From 13 Allen St to 649 Newton Washington Heights Optical 888-778-8622 • saddlerivertours.com 212-925-8889 • www.fungwahbus.com Rd: one-way $25, round trip $40. To Atlantic City • To Boston every hour on the hour between 7 am–10 pm. • To Richmond, VA, at 5 pm. From 88 E Broadway to Street Level: From 139 Canal Street to South Station: one-way $15, 5215 W Broad St: one-way $40, round trip $60. Blockbuster Video round trip $30. • To Atlanta, GA, at 8 pm. From 109 E Broadway to Vanessa Express • 201-453-1970. 5150 Buford Hwy NE: one-way $90, round trip $170. Rite-Aid Pharmacy To Cliffside Park, Jersey City, North Bergen, Union Lucky Star Bus Transportation • Urban Pathways—Homeless Outreach Office City, and West New York. 617-426-8801 • www.luckystarbus.com. Port Authority Business Outreach Center • To Boston every hour 7 am–10 pm. From 69 Chrystie St to (179th St underpass) South Station: one-way $15, round trip $30. 307

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8th Av 8th 7th Av 7th 8 9 Madison Av 10 Transit • Biking & Skating in Manhattan Transit • Biking & Skating in Manhattan

Williamsburg Bridge General Information The Williamsburg Bridge has the widest pedestrian/bike Bike Rentals (and Sales) Bicycle Defense Fund: www.bicycledefensefund.org path of the three bridges to Brooklyn. The path on the north Metro Bicycle Stores: Bike New York, Five Borough Bike Tour: www.bikenewyork.org side, shared by cyclists and pedestrians, is 12 feet wide. The • 1311 Lexington Ave & 88th St • 212-427-4450 • Map 17 Century Road Club Association (CRCA): www.crca.net southern path, at eight feet wide, is also shared by bikers • 360 W 47th St & Ninth Ave • 212-581-4500 • Map 11 Department of City Planning: www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bike/home.shtml and walkers. Unfortunately, only one of the paths seems to • 213 W 96th St & Broadway • 212-663-7531 • Map 16 Department of Parks & Recreation: www.nycgovparks.org be open at any give time for some illogical reason. However, • 332 E 14th St, b/w First & Second aves • Department of Transportation: www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/bikemain.shtml during the 2005 transit strike both sides were open, and 212-228-4344 • Map 6 Empire Skate Club: www.empireskate.org hopefully this will become the norm someday soon. As • 546 Sixth Ave & W 15th St • 212-255-5100 • Map 9 Fast & Fabulous Lesbian & Gay Bike Club: www.fastnfab.org a bonus fitness feature, the steep gradient on both the • 417 Canal St & Sixth Ave • 212-334-8000 • Map 2 Five Boro Bicycle Club: www.5bbc.org Manhattan and Brooklyn sides of the bridge gives bikers and Liberty Bicycles • 846 Ninth Ave & 55th St • League of American Bicyclists: www.bikeleague.org pedestrians a good workout. 212-757-2418 • Map 11 New York Bicycle Coalition: www.nybc.net Brooklyn Access: North Entrance–Driggs Ave, right by the Toga Bike Shop • 110 West End Ave & 64th St • New York Cycle Club: www.nycc.org Washington Plz 212-799-9625 • Map 14 NYC Streets Renaissance: www.nycstreets.org South Entrance–Bedford Ave b/w S 5th & S 6th Sts Gotham Bikes • 112 W Broadway b/w Duane & Reade sts • Time’s Up! Bicycle Advocacy Group: www.times-up.org Manhattan Access: Delancey St & Clinton St/Suffolk St 212-732-2453 • Map 2 Transportation Alternatives: www.transalt.org Bicycle Habitat • 244 Lafayette St b/w Spring & Prince sts • George Washington Bridge 212-431-3315 • Map 6 Overview year stolen in NYC, the extra cost for a top-of-the-line bike lock Bikers get marginalized by the pedestrians on this crossway Bicycle Heaven • 348 E 62 St b/w First & Second aves • is worth it. On the upside, bikes provide a much faster, less to New Jersey. The north walkway is for pedestrians only, and 212-230-1919 • Map 15 While not for the faint of heart, biking and skating around demanding form of transportation around the city. the south side is shared by pedestrians and bikers. Cyclists Bike Works • 106 Ridge St b/w Stanton & Rivington sts • Manhattan can be one of the most efficient and exhilarating had to fight to keep their right to even bike on this one 212-388-1077 • Map 7 forms of transportation. Transportation Alternatives estimates walkway, as city officials wanted to institute a “walk your bike City Bicycles • 315 W 38th St b/w Eighth & Ninth aves • that over 130,000 New Yorkers hop on a bike each day—an Crossing the Bridges by Bike across” rule to avoid bicycle/pedestrian accidents during 212-563-3373 • Map 11 all-time high for the city. Manhattan is relatively flat, and Crossing the Brooklyn, Manhattan, or Williamsburg Bridges construction. The bikers won the battle but are warned to Eddie’s Bicycles Shop • 490 Amsterdam Ave b/w 83rd & the fitness and environmental advantages of using people by bike is a great way for Brooklynites to commute to work “exercise extra caution” when passing pedestrians. 84th sts • 212-580-2011 • Map 14 power are incontrovertible. However, there are also some (unless, of course, it’s really windy and cold out). Riding Manhattan Access: W 178th St & Fort Washington Ave Larry and Jeff’s Bicycles Plus • 1400 Third Ave b/w 79th & downsides, including, but not limited to: psychotic cab across these bridges also makes for a great weekend outing New Jersey Access: Hudson Ter in Fort Lee 80th sts • 212-794-2929 • Map 17 drivers, buses, traffic, pedestrians, pavement with potholes, for Manhattanites and Brooklynites alike. All bridges afford Pedal Pusher Bike Shop • 1306 Second Ave b/w 68th & glass, debris, and poor air quality. In 1994, the Bicycle Network amazing views of the Manhattan and Brooklyn skylines. In Triborough Bridge 69th sts • 212-288-5592 • Map 15 Development Program was created to increase bicycle the fall of 2003, the DOT estimated that nearly 4,000 cyclists Biking is officially prohibited on this two-mile span that Manhattan Bicycles • 791 Ninth Ave b/w 52nd & 53rd sts • usage in the NYC area. Since then, many bike lanes have crossed the East River bridges each day. It just isn’t healthy to connects the Bronx, Queens, and Manhattan. Unofficially, 212-262-0111 • Map 11 been created on streets and in parks (see map on previous stay underground so much, so gear up and give it a go. people ride between the boroughs and over to Wards Island New York Cyclist • 301 Cathedral Pkwy & Central Park West • page). These tend to be the safest places to ride, though they all the time. The bike path is quite narrow, compared to the 212-864-4449 • Map 16 often get blocked by parked or standing cars. Central Park Brooklyn Bridge paths on other bridges, and the lighting at night is mediocre is a great place to ride, as are the newly developed paths Separate bicycle and pedestrian lanes run down the center at best. The tight path sees less pedestrian/cycling traffic from Battery Park that run along the Hudson River. East River of the bridge, with the bicycle lane on the north side and than other bridges, which, paired with the insufficient Bikes and Mass Transit Park is another nice destination for recreational riding and the pedestrian lane on the south. Cyclists should beware lighting, gives the span a rather ominous feeling after dark. Surprisingly, you can take your bike on trains and some skating—just not after dark! In addition to bicycle rentals, of wayfaring tourists taking photographs. We do not If you’re worried about safety, or keen on obeying the laws, buses—just make sure it’s not during rush hour and you are Pedal Pusher Bike Shop (1306 Second Ave, 212-288-5592) recommend rollerblading across the bridge—the wooden the 103rd Street footbridge provides an alternative way to courteous to other passengers. The subway requires you to offers recorded tours of Central Park, so you can learn about planks make for quite a bumpy ride. The bridge is quite level reach Wards Island sans car. This pedestrian pass is open carry your bike down staircases, use the service gate instead the park and exercise at the same time. There is also talk of and, aside from the tourists and planks, fairly easy to traverse. only during the warmer months, and then only during of the turnstile, and board at the very front or back end of creating a city wide bike rental program similar to the one Brooklyn Access: Stairs to Cadman Plz E and Prospect St, ramp daylight hours. See page 297 for more information about the the train. To ride the commuter railroads with your bike, you that recently launched in Paris. Let’s hope that New York to Johnson & Adams Sts footbridge schedule. may need to purchase a bike permit. For appropriate contact jumps on board! Manhattan Access: Park Row and Centre St, across from City Bronx Access: 133rd St & Cypress Ave information, see transportation pages. Hall Park Manhattan Access: Ramps--124/126th Sts & First Ave Stairs– Recreational skating venues in Manhattan include Wollman Second Ave and 124/126 Sts Amtrak: Train with baggage car required. and Lasker Rinks in Central Park, Chelsea Piers, Riverbank Manhattan Bridge Queens Access: 26th St & Hoyt Ave (beware of extremely LIRR: $5 permit required. State Park (679 Riverside Drive at 145th St), and Rivergate Ice The last of the Brooklyn crossings to be outfitted with decent steep stairs). Metro-North: $5 permit required. Rink (401 E 34th St). If you’re looking for a place to get your pedestrian and bike paths, the Manhattan Bridge bike and New Jersey Transit: No permit required. skates sharpened to your own personal specifications before pedestrian paths are on separate sides of the bridge. The Queensboro Bridge PATH: No permit required. hitting the ice, contact Westside Skate & Stick (174 Fifth Ave, walking path is on the south side, and the bike path is on The north outer roadway of the Queensboro Bridge is open New York Water Taxi: No fee or permit required 212-228-8400), a custom pro shop for hockey and figure the north side of the bridge. The major drawback to walking exclusively to bikers, 24/7, except for the day of the New York NY Waterway: $1 fee. skaters that’s by appointment only. For more information on across the Manhattan Bridge is that you have to climb a steep Marathon. More than 2,500 cyclists and pedestrians per day Staten Island Ferry: Enter at lower level. skating venues throughout the boroughs, check out www. set of stairs on the Brooklyn side (not the best conditions traverse the bridge. Bikers complain about safety issues on Bus companies: Call individual companies. skatecity.com. For organized events, visit the Empire Skate for lugging around a stroller or suitcase). Fortunately, the the Manhattan side of the bridge: With no direct connection Club at www.empireskate.org. bike path on the north side of the bridge is ramped on from Manhattan onto the bridge’s West Side, bikers are both approaches. However, be careful on Jay Street when forced into an awkward five-block detour to get to Second Bikes are sometimes less convenient than skates. Where skates accessing the bridge in Brooklyn due to the dangerous, fast- Avenue, where they can finally access the bridge. can be tucked in a bag and carried onto subways, indoors, or moving traffic. Manhattan Entrance: 60th St, b/w First Ave & Second Ave on buses, bikes have to be locked up on the street and are Brooklyn Access: Jay St & Sands St Queens Entrance: Queens Plz & St always at risk of being stolen. Unfortunately, bike racks are Manhattan Access: Bike Lane–Canal St & Forsyth St hard to come by in NYC, so you may need to get creative on Pedestrian Lane–Bowery, just south of Canal St where to park. Always lock them to immovable objects and don’t skimp on a cheap bike lock. With over 40,000 bikes a 311