Getting Around In New York

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New York for Students and Interns

Securing your internship or getting into your summer program required a ton effort. Now comes the fun part: planning your move to New York. Even if it’s just a few months, moving to New York is equal parts challenging and thrilling. Make the hard parts easier and the fun parts more fabulous with the Web sites below.

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Getting Around In New York

New York City has a fantastic public transportation system. Millions of people use the subways, buses and ferries each day to get to work, and tourists will find public transit a quick and cheap way to navigate the city sights. The sites in this section can help make your New York public transportation experience easy, interesting and as fast as possible.

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Most subway maintenance and repair is done late at night or on weekends, which means that some subway lines may skip stops or not be running at all. Check the Metropolitan Transportation Authority site for service changes.

If you’re going to be riding public transportation twice a day or more (such as to and from work) buying an unlimited MetroCard is an economical way to go. Rather than paying a $2 fare each way, you can buy a daily, weekly or monthly pass that gives you unlimited access to all of the subways and buses during that time period. MetroCards can be purchased at almost any subway station.

You can tell whether a taxi is available by looking at the sign on the roof of the car: if it’s not lit, it’s occupied; if it’s completely lit, it’s off duty; if the middle section is lit, it’s available, and you can try to hail it.

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For planning your route …

HopStop can help you get from any address or intersection in New York to any other. Enter your starting point and destination in any of the five boroughs and get train, bus or walking directions that will land you on the doorstep of your destination. Choose certain preferences for your trip (for example, less walking or subway only) and get oriented once you leave the subway: HopStop has 360-degree photos of a number of subway exits that indicate which way you need to go.

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NY.com

calculates the cross street of a Manhattan address, and provides the complex algorithm (also found in most print telephone books) if you want to figure it out on your own.

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For a subway or bus map …

The MTA (Metropolitan Transportation Authority) Web site has all of the subway, bus and Staten Island Railway maps you could ever need.

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For “learning to walk” in NYC …

The New York Times has an article titled “Think You Own the Sidewalk? Etiquette by New York Pedestrians Is Showing a Strain” that provides seven tips for navigating the streets of New York. Tip number one? “[W]alking rules are like driving rules.”

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The Morning News presents an article called “How to Walk in New York” that provides tips not only for the casual sidewalk walker, but rules for those on escalators, on subway stairs and even jaywalkers.

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