Marin's the only difficult part. It's an easy walk otherwise.

They’re just trying to capture the New York experience

Open a shop then! There are too few spots

It’s to own. I didn’t have much credit history before it so that’s why my payment is higher. Still a perfectly plausible situation for lots of people.

Oh it drives me totally insane. The car works out to being more expensive for sure though in my case.

$438/mo for NJT Rail (which includes unlimited bus access) and $110.25/mo for unlimited PATH. So $548.25/mo for transit.

My car is $528/mo. Insurance is $113/mo. Gas based on my last fill-up is $66/mo. Then there’s yearly maintenance costs. It’s a Honda so it doesn’t need much but let’s say $300/year so $25/mo. That’s a total of $732/mo.

The car ends up being $183.75/mo more than transit. I’d love to take the train and not have to focus on driving but the time lost in between is just too much for me. With the car, I can make it back to JC in time to go to events going on here or in NYC. Getting back after 7pm makes that harder.

You definitely want JC. Maybe it’s just personal experience but something weird or bad always manages to happen to me when I end up in Hoboken. As others have said, it’s pretty fratty and straight there.

I’d say look at a cheaper apartment and consider getting a car. I commute a little bit further than Madison for 3 days a week and despite all my qualms with cars, it is far faster than the 2 hours 15 minutes each way that I’d need to do if I stuck with PATH+NJT. Plus it comes in handy when going outside the NYC transit footprint. Alternate side parking is not really a pain in the ass when you have to move it 3 days a week anyway. It ends up being more than what transit would cost me per month but I did the 2-hour-each-way transit commute in Chicago and I don’t think I’d go back…

I’d recommend near Grove St or Journal Square cuz those neighborhoods are the two that have PATH stops with both midtown and downtown service to/from them 24/7.

There’s a ton of gays on the Jersey side and especially in JC. I’ve been able to make friends just fine here. Plenty in NYC too obviously but you’ll probably have to work a little harder to meet up.

Yeah I’m not sure what all this harping on the environment is. Yes, that’s incredibly important but the better sell to everyone is “this is a project with no consideration for the real bottleneck”. No matter how left or right you are, one can agree that the tunnel is the issue. Not the approaching road.

I was still well behind it and got off around Journal Square so it didn’t trap me for long. At first I saw the lights and thought there had been an accident but then I saw them moving and the train car in the distance.

I got caught behind that caravan too! I wondered also if maybe it was a delivery for the MTA because they also buy from Kawasaki, who as others have mentioned, finishes manufacturing train cars in Yonkers.

As far as universities go, there’s Saint Peter’s and NJCU. Hoboken’s got Stevens too… I think creative young people are coming on their own though in addition to those who go to college over here.