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The longest route on the NYC subway is precisely when you have an appointment and the train decides to stop because there's electrical issues, someone jumped on the track, "there's a train stopped ahead of us", the express decides to go local instead, someone is holding the door, your route involves the F/G or any line that serves less affluent neighborhoods...
I'm curious what someone who actually knows NYC could do. 74 stations, 41.42 miles, 3:23, 4 boroughs, $3.00 fare Starting from Pelham Bay Park on the 6
I found it hard to navigate due to not being able to see far enough ahead and not knowing which transfer to take to head in the direction I want (is it Ⓡ Forest Hills-71 Av or Ⓡ Bay Ridge-95 St to head left/East at Lexington Av/59 St?). So, uh, I planned ahead using the subway diagram [1] (is that cheating?). I got:
127 stations, 69.92 miles, 5:02, 4 boroughs, $3.00
Station Transfer
------- --------
⑥ Pelham Bay Park
Lexington Av/59 St -> Ⓡ Forest Hills-71 Av
Forest Hills-71 Av -> Ⓔ Jamaica Center-Parsons
Sutphin Blvd -> Ⓩ Broad St
Broadway Junction -> Ⓐ Inwood 207 St
Jay St -> Ⓕ Coney Island Stillwell Av
W 8 St-NY Aquarium -> Ⓠ 96 St
Times Sq -> ② Wakefield-241 St
The longest route on the NYC subway is precisely when you have an appointment and the train decides to stop because there's electrical issues, someone jumped on the track, "there's a train stopped ahead of us", the express decides to go local instead, someone is holding the door, your route involves the F/G or any line that serves less affluent neighborhoods...
On the other, the NYC subway is one of the few 24/7 subway systems in the world, which makes me envious somewhat. Ours closes at midnight and opens around 5 AM.
I'm curious what someone who actually knows NYC could do. 74 stations, 41.42 miles, 3:23, 4 boroughs, $3.00 fare Starting from Pelham Bay Park on the 6
In fairness a couple of my connections required knowledge of express vs local stops and I don’t think it’s fair to expect an out of towner to know that!
My strategy was to avoid midtown as long as I possibly could because so many lines intersect there. It's funny how you end up leaning on the part of the system you know best. For me that was Brooklyn. Atlantic Terminal is really key there. Could probably have made more mileage out of Queens/Bronx but wasn't confident.
More importantly, I need to put this thing down before I lose the entire day.
The longest route on the NYC subway is precisely when you have an appointment and the train decides to stop because there's electrical issues, someone jumped on the track, "there's a train stopped ahead of us", the express decides to go local instead, someone is holding the door, your route involves the F/G or any line that serves less affluent neighborhoods...
On the one hand, this sort of thing feels inexcusable to me. In my mind, the subway is the most reliable mode of city transportation. On the other, the NYC subway is one of the few 24/7 subway systems in the world, which makes me envious somewhat. Ours closes at midnight and opens around 5 AM.
> In my mind, the subway is the most reliable mode of city transportation.
Even with its problems the NYC subway still is. Traffic is a nightmare. I have friends who insist on taking a cab to the airport because it's more reliable then end up complaining because they're still on the Belt Parkway or whatever.
The longest route on the NYC subway is precisely when you have an appointment and the train decides to stop because there's electrical issues, someone jumped on the track, "there's a train stopped ahead of us", the express decides to go local instead, someone is holding the door, your route involves the F/G or any line that serves less affluent neighborhoods...
Are there any lines that don’t, at some point, serve less affluent neighborhoods? The midtown shuttle I suppose…
The longest route on the NYC subway is precisely when you have an appointment and the train decides to stop because there's electrical issues, someone jumped on the track, "there's a train stopped ahead of us", the express decides to go local instead, someone is holding the door, your route involves the F/G or any line that serves less affluent neighborhoods...
Are you saying F/G AND any line serving less affluent areas? Because if not, the G (save for maybe 2-3 stops in Bed-Stuy) is all affluent neighborhoods.
When i was younger I would sometimes ride the F-train back and forth several times in the evenings just so I could think and put articulate thoughts into a notebook. This is before underground network connectivity, before smartphones, etc. The hum of the train was great and the speed of the F train at segments of Queens were exhilarating, a bit like listening to EDM while coding.
When there would be friends involved, we'd usually be at Chinatown Fair all night until close, then walk down to Elevated Acre and hang out there (this was pre-9/11) until 3 or 4, then walk our friends from Staten Island to the Ferry. If the mood was particularly good, we'd take the ferry with them and then ride it back and everyone go their separate ways.
There used to be houseboats around lower manhattan back then and it was a nice (albeit sketchy) walk from Chinatown down to the tip of the island. There was also pretty briefly this wild hole-in-the-wall DUMBO nightclub projecting porn on the walls that we would frequently stumble into on our way down there.
Things like that were honestly the best part about living in NY, but also it's long in the past.
So the longest subway ride in NYC is 24km (15 miles) and 1h long? We have multiple underground lines farther than this in Berlin with the longest being 32km (20 miles). But don't get fooled, the issues are the same.