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How to Take the Subway in New York

How To Take The Subway In New York
How To Take The Subway In New York

In New York, we only had a week and a half, which was short considering our travel regime. We read up on the main attractions, found accommodations, made maps, and familiarized ourselves with a bunch of technical details in our absence. Overall, we were very well prepared. Tripadvisor, guidebooks, blogs, and a few individual websites came in handy during our search. All this information was obtained by my friend Sandra, who spent a considerable amount of time on it. In this post, I will try to gather everything we ended up using and more. I hope to help those of you who are just visiting New York. I’ll start with the subway in new york. You will learn more about how to take the subway in new york by lcnoutdoors.com article.


Brief Information About the New York Subway

We flew to JFK (JFK) airport and from there we had to go to Manhattan. In theory, there are many ways to do this, starting with cabs and ending with buses, but the easiest for us was the subway. It is also the cheapest.

To reach the subway, you can use an electric train that runs between all the terminals. It’s called the AirTrain and costs $5. It can take you to Howard Beach or Jamaica Station. You will need to pay for the train with your MetroCard at the exit, where you will find revolving doors and vending machines for these cards. If you hesitate, a nearby employee can help, but in principle, you can manage it yourself, and everything in the device is very clear. The card itself costs one dollar.

The cards are different: regular (payment per trip) and unlimited. The card can be recharged. On the regular card, the cost is $2.50 for one trip. Unlimited is 1, 3, 7, and 30 days (maybe there are other options, I don’t remember). 7 days unlimited costs $30 (you can see the other rates in the video below).

You won’t be able to walk with an unlimited card for two to three minutes (there should be 15 or 20 minutes between passes). As usual – it’s easy, every pass through the turnstiles will be debited.

A. How to buy a metro card

You can buy with cash and a bank card. Cash will find your money (if necessary), but the Asian cards have a nuance: the payment process requires you to enter your zip code, which, of course, we don’t have. You can either enter 9999 (which doesn’t always work for me) or wait ten seconds and the payment will go through. Without a zip code, you have to go inside the store to pay, which is more of a hassle.

By the way, if you have a debit card, make sure you indicate anywhere that it is a “credit card” or you may have problems paying (not just for the subway, but for all payments in general). I personally use a debit card.

If you know how to buy a MetroCard, you won’t have any problems recharging it. You can recharge the regular card for any amount, while the unlimited card can be recharged for a certain amount or for a certain period (renewal). When the Unlimited Card expires, it will be upgraded to a regular card. If you “extend” it, it becomes unlimited again.

We live in Manhattan, so we don’t use the subway every day. Many places there are easily accessible on foot.


How to Navigate the Nyc Subway – Subway in New York

How To Navigate The Nyc Subway
How To Navigate The Nyc Subway

If you’re used to our underground system, where trains only run one way on one line, you’re out of luck. Here, at first glance, everything seems to go through the same place. Different trains come to the same platform and can go in different directions. Or in the same direction, but they stop at different stations.

There’s nothing to worry about; the system isn’t as complicated as it first appears. Forget you’re in a subway and pretend it’s just a tram. Each underground branch is like a tram, with its own number and running on its own route. Here the branches are distinguished by color and named with letters or numbers. For example, “A”, “C”, “1”, etc. Each incoming train is marked with which branch it is (and on each wagon).

You can pick up a subway map from a booth at each station, where some employees are on duty. If you have a smartphone, you can install an app with a chart yourself. We used the first program we came across from Google Play (which is for android phones). Well, you can download this map of the New York subway in PDF format.

There are branches where the “express trains” run. The truth is that some parts of the paths of two or three branches overlap. In this case, the “express” trains do not stop at all stations, but only at the stations marked with white circles on the map (regular trains also stop at these stations). The black circles mark those stations where only “local” trains stop.

125 St
Stations where both fast and slow trains stop (lines A, B, C, D)
116 St
Only local trains stop here (lines B and C)

Subways also run at night, but in a slightly different way: express trains can run like regular trains (stopping at all stations), and some stations may be closed for maintenance work. Information about when and how this or that branch or particular station works is necessarily hung up at the station.

Finally, if you have the Internet at hand, Google Maps will help you. They can be trusted to lay out routes around the city.

Good luck, dear readers, in mastering the subway system with ease!

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