Any Staten Island Girl who work in the city

enewedding Posted: Jan 08, 2009 05:02 PM

Any Staten Island Girl who work in the city

DH and I are looking at buying a house on SI

The thing that I am worried about is the commute to the city. Right now it takes me about 1 hour and 15 minutes to get from Dyker to union square.

We are looking at a place this weekend in Mid-land beach.

Can anyone let me know about the commute

Thanks

StaceYums81 Posted: Jan 08, 2009 07:34 PM

Re: Any Staten Island Girl who work in the city

you would probably get more feedback on NYC weddings, try posting there...

vika111 Posted: Jan 09, 2009 11:01 AM

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I live in Staten Island and work in Brooklyn. DH works in Manhattan.
He drives me to work every morning and then takes the train. My commute is about 45 minutes, and then his is an extra hour to the City.
FM me for more info.

PeterNina Mom Posted: Jan 09, 2009 01:09 PM

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My SIL lives on Staten Island and works in Manhattan on Park Ave & 46th Street. She takes the express bus and says it takes her about 1 1/2 hours or so. It is a long commute.
You can also take the ferry to downtown Manhattan and then get on a train. Anyway you look at it it is a long commute.

Future Mulligan Posted: Jan 09, 2009 01:50 PM

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my DH takes the express bus from the south shore of staten island into downtown - it takes him anywhere from 45 mins to 2 hours, i guess on average 1 hr 30 mins.....i know going to midtown was a lot worse and that used to take him even longer.....midland is north shore so that lessens the commute a little.....

AFutureBride Posted: Jan 09, 2009 02:59 PM

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Posted by StaceYums81

you would probably get more feedback on NYC weddings, try posting there...

FYI : nycityweddings.com and LIW are exactly the same websites...any post you make shows up on both

emc282rjm Posted: Jan 10, 2009 01:02 PM

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I lived in Midland Beach and worked on 23rd and Park for two years. I would take the Express bus to lower Manhattan and then take the train uptown. It took me about 45 min to an hour all told. I would NOT recommend taking the bus all the way to midtown. You can ride in special bus lanes on the highways, but in Manhattan itself you're fighting traffic the whole way uptown.

Hope that helped!

Espo22 Posted: Jan 10, 2009 01:03 PM

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Posted by emc282rjm

I lived in Midland Beach and worked on 23rd and Park for two years. I would take the Express bus to lower Manhattan and then take the train uptown. It took me about 45 min to an hour all told. I would NOT recommend taking the bus all the way to midtown. You can ride in special bus lanes on the highways, but in Manhattan itself you're fighting traffic the whole way uptown.

Hope that helped!

my friend lives in SI and works in midtown and she does the same thing.