same here, lived in Brooklyn my whole life, moved to queens last year.

As a New Yorker I fell disappointed about the NYC metro when I see how clean and how the train are 2 min apart in the London Underground also the train have a character to them with the color it have glad the new R-221 or was 211 have a blue front instead f being all silver but it the same story with metro I seen on the when I went to look at them on the web you got the Stockholm metro which have stataion that look different it like waking at an art gallery or German U bhan where the each station have a different collar or design and in Tokyo the metro is clean and like how people follow the train rule of the metro unlike in New York where the okay thing we do is let’s people off the train first I seen people take like two seat play loud music and throw trash in the track in New York and sometimes you see the graffiti done by kids truing to look cool also when they do the line the don’t make sense it just a bunch of lines their no effort put into it to me it like drawing a stick frigure that anyone can draw and have it be seen like it the Mona Lisa it stupid or as they say in Japan Baka

We live in Tokyo these days (and have been for the past five years). The Tokyo subway trains are much cleaner compared to the New York MTA, of course, but can be just as crowded during rush hours (crammed like sardines in a tin). Tokyo rails are known for their punctuality but they can be late due to "human accidents" (aka someone has jumped in front of a train in a suicide attempt). Blue lights have been installed at the ends of most station platforms as it's thought to alter human moods and reduce instances of suicidal thoughts.

@@arcturionblade1077 Tokyo is Tokyo and New York is Filthy

@@raymonds7492 Depends. I grew up in 80's New York City and I clearly remember just how disgusting the trains were back then with graffiti everywhere and worse. Today, it's much better compared to the 80's, lol. Tokyo trains are miles (well, kilometers since the Japanese use the metric system) better, of course, in terms of cleanliness.

amen

You forgot the connection to subway at Atlantic terminal, Jamaica and a few more like 61st - Woodside, mets willets point

"better than none" is not even a low bar. NYC transit system is inadequate at best. One should be able to get on a bus or subway and get to any of the airports without having to make 58 transfers. The purpose of the rail is to both efficiently bring people in for work and then just as efficiently take them back home. That's the bar we should aim for.

@@shargor 1. "Inadequate at best" way to ignore the history, which shows you didn't watch the video. The subway is the result of different COMPETING companies being combined. Of course it leads to transfers. And 58? Yeah, it's clear you don't know what you're talking about. The Tube in London was the same way. Different companies 2. That's not its purpose. It's a SUBWAY, a METRO! NOT commuter rail! The purpose of the subway is to take people wherever and whenever they want to go, not just for work. The beach, museums, parties, sports matches, fine dining, etc. The subway is one of the only ones in the WHOLE world that runs 24/7 every day of the year. Stop acting like it's the worst smh.

@@AverytheCubanAmerican Wouldn't the NYC Subway and the London Metro (Underground) be analogous to each other? The both serve major metropolitan areas in a similar capacity as they are both subway systems. And runs round the clock. Where is the difference between a "metro" and "subway"

You can be proud all you want but why would you be proud of a system which billions of dollars in debt and keeps losing money?

@@shargor you cant really measure the impact of a public transit system by how much money it makes/loses because it has so many secondary benifits. Have you ever been to New york? The city is so densely populated that it simply cant function without the subway system. The system by itself moves millions of people each day from New Jersey and long island. Its economic benifit to the city is incalculable. Also its worth mentioning that all forms of infrastructure cost money. Houston is spending billions to expand its highway system to Katy and its unlikely to decrease commute times. If youre going to spend billions on infrastructure, might as well spend the money on a system that works.

@@littlerockdoc3183 NYC subway moves people from NJ and Long Island? I don't think so. My point is that we live in a capitalist society and, while I agree that a really good public transportation system is essential to NYC, I abhor how it is run into the ground financially and how both politicians and people who ride the subway not treasure it. I believe that NYC subway system and MTA in particular need a heavy hand that is good at cutting fat off its list of expenses and punishing the people who vandalize public transportation in the city.

Boston’s is actually a (mostly figurative, but occasionally literal) trainwreck a lot of the time.

Nyc subway is just dirty and yucky

How did you get on the subway in JFK if there is no subway in JFK?

@@shargor Airtrain, so not the subway the entire way but public transit nonetheless

@@shargorYou really think nyc is so dumb to have a subway just sitting right there without a way to connect to all other transits? It’s literally called the “Howard Beach JFK Airport” stop on the A train. I’ve done the trip a dozen times 😂

Just like the London Underground, then ...

They do that because if you look up you might get assaulted by the heroin addict sitting across from you.

@@phillwainewright4221 I was going to reply with the same haha. Even if you're with someone you just sit their in silence then wait until you're outside to say something haha.

And you can clear a car by pulling out a bible and asking if they have a minute to talk about Jesus.

I'm from the Bx I talk to strangers all the time on the subway how else we gonna be friends

In a remote part of Victoria Australia the McKillop Bridge was built around 1880, it replaced a smaller structure that was washed away a week before the opening ceremony.

A mega frustrating project too! I second this idea though :D

I was not living in Louisiana for Hurricane Katrina. I was living in Sebastian Florida. I should not have been under a GLOBAL MARKETING POLICY without my knowledge. Also I did not own a personal computer at that time.

@@ronniedelahoussayechauvin6717 And what's your point?!?

The old levees would not have survived.

It's a mind bending shithole and assault on the senses. You feel subhuman using it, nice work NYC.

In your opinion what are some solutions to modernize and make it better?

@@johnsmith1474 Move to a rural area. I used to complain about the CTA/RTA when I lived in the Chicago suburbs but moving to the middle of nowhere and having to pay a driver to take me everywhere disabused me of those criticisms.

Sounds like a normal day during rush hour riding the A, E, L, Q or 4 trains. And in NO particular order.

@@DDELE7 don’t forget the 2, 5, and D trains as well lol

I can relate, having been on the NYC subway many times and seen many of the aforementioned things.

Now if they can find a way for a person from Marine Park Brooklyn to get to Manhattan faster than a person coming from Philly. 😂

Yeah, I tried getting to King hwy mall in Brooklyn. The subway is barren there. Had to take 2 diff buses.

The BMT uses the R-46 car as well and will all its own replaced also. Not just SIRS

Better than DC, are you sure you rode on the subway in NYC? Don't get me wrong WAMATA has a whole slew of issues to, but its cleaner and more reliable then NY. Not to mention they have been rebuilding the entire system for the last several years and will soon have no train older than the 2010's. Plus its just more spacious, the cars and the stations (most of them). DC is still considered the gold standard in the US (which is pathetic) but it is pretty good. LA has a good one, Chicago's L is being rebuilt and modernized all while the MTA just can't get any project off the ground.

@@austinlawler3739 Thank you for your reply. I have only ridden the DC subway when I was there for three days in 2017. I was really thinking about the extent of the NYC network and how easy it for a visitor to get around the city at a reasonable price, which is the prime purpose of a subway system. Yes, the DC subway was very nice and modern and the staff were very helpful for us tourists. But it is still a work in progress. I haven't been to LA or Chicago, maybe one day when the Zombie Apocalypse is over and travel is easier. I live in Sydney and we are on a lockdown until the end of the month, so I think it will be a while before I get to the USA again.

The one in Tokyo is so confusing because different lines are run by different companies. Same mistake NYC made many years ago

are you being serious Martin?

@@clumsytriangle2436 ?

Without the subway, NYC would not work- yes the roads might still work but the everyday workers would be severely impacted. So the boss turns up at the office and the water and power does not work or the doors are locked shut. Menwhile every parking space is full and the roads are gridlocked. I still think state funds are better sources than federal cash as it makes all cash spent more important that dollars falling from never ending cash machines. Wiping the debt off the NYC books might be a better idea.

Not compared to Warsaw, Poland, or Daegu, Korea (which recently opened up a automated monorail line), hell I'd even say the Moscow subway was cleaner and more pleasant. All of these are cheaper too.

trust me it dont compare to the london underground

@@abhaymanoj3784 Positively or negatively? I've never been on that one, but the one in Paris is... OK.

@@the_kombinator i would say the London underground is much better and also cleaner

Tries 60’s

Also @Trainfan1055 I like trains

Only some lines use cars that old. Such as the A, C and F lines.

Old cars have been remanufactured

It's to save money

All those taxes but they don’t take care of their stuff.

@@BMWE90HQ the railways are almost impossible to upgrade due to ridership levels. Like highways that decay because the traffic is too high on them to divert it for roadwork.

Railroad, get it right. Railway is a euro term

@@RidinDirtyRollinBurnouts bullshit bustitution is an option boost frequency on nearby lines

Sounds like your mother. 😂

In another year or so NYC will bear an uncanny resemblance to Pyongyang. North Korea is Creepy Joe's model for The USA.

And the water that is coming in has the pressure to get to the 6th or 7th floor of most buildings but any higher then that and they need pumps to send it up to water tanks on the roof. The reason you see so many wooden water tanks on the buildings is the wood has an insulation rating where metal warms the water in the summer and helps it freeze faster in the winters.

This is worth an episode

And the resulting water regularly wins contests for the best-tasting water in America. It's a great engineering project that produces an unequaled result. It deserves to be far more famous than it is.

@@LatitudeSky The first rule about delicious NYC tap water is we do not discuss NYC tap water 😆

Thank you 🙏🏼

Thanks, I would never have made it through 14 minutes without that :D

Its more-so the massive corruption. The MTAs budget is spent almost entirely in paying off transit workers and building up the bureaucracy. The only reason why privatization of the system didn't work was because the government forced the private companies to keep their fares artificially low, but the private companies themselves were consistently reliable, and the cost of maintenance when they were in power was significantly lower.

OMG, somebody save the rats!

I personally know nothing about Trains. I never rode a TRAIN in my life.

And please include video of the great car chase on the L from "Running Scared"!

So like any other US city

I saw a dude get hit by an Amtrack on the "L" at Sheridan Road in Great Lakes, IL. 😳😳😳🤮🤮🤮

@@SkunkApe407 ooof! ...and we can't forget the (in)famous Metra station in Lagrange! the station you might not survive getting to or leaving from!

@@WarpRadio dude, Lagrange is almost as bad as the Greyhound station in Fayetteville, NC. I wish I could forget that mf.

True and the subway is poorly run and infrequent

Main issue is that upstate/LI tends to lean away from investing in the City. Bit of a love/hate relationship there, given that they wouldn't have jobs or tax revenue without the beating economic heart that is the City.

I live in Anchorage, Alaska where we have a pretty robust bus system. Unfortunately, it doesn't serve the entirety of the city but I think if I lived in an area it served, I'd use it quite a lot. Maybe I'm kidding myself and I'd drive just for the convenience. We don't suffer from the traffic congestion of larger cities and I might decide waiting for a bus just wasn't worth it.

Most don't drive. 55% of NYC households don't own one. In areas with subway lines that number increases to around 80-90%. Owning a car in NYC only makes sense if you live in the outer areas where there is limited transit.

Many people do not like the "clientele" on NYC subways and the crime risk it carries. Remember, traveling from Manhattan to parts of Brooklyn or Queens can take well over an hour, and you pass through some extremely dangerous neighborhoods. A few of my family members live in Queens and pay for a parking space in Manhattan so they don't have to ride the subway, especially after dark.

@@VisibilityFoggy Been taking the subway for years. Crime is not a problem. It happens but the subway is very safe. Yeah it can take close to an hour to go from Manhattan to Queens but that beats 2 hours in traffic.

@@dustin6804 I took it for years too. Fortunately I've moved to a much nicer city and state. Crime was always present on the subways - along with graffiti, bodily fluids, annoying/smelly people, idiots playing loud music, people asking for money, general foul behavior. I'll take my car any day over that nonsense. After college I never looked back at the NYC area. Gigantic taxes for miserable living standards - hooray!

You want a cookie for being the smartest kid in class?

@@helljumper912 Just give him a cookie :D

Wasn't light rail. It was streetcar.

@@helljumper912 Why do you care? Go eat a Snickers with all that hate

Indirectly.Don't forget about the Trolley Terminal at Essex Street on the J,M,and Z.

With the updated one, we see Denzel Washington on a subway. We have also seen him fly a plane, drive a train, and a taxi. The Denzel Washington mass transit series just needs a movie with him driving a bus.

NY City has a de facto one party system, he will ALWAYS get their votes, so he doesn't have to do anything to earn them.

@@johnathin0061892 MTA controls the subway which is controlled by the STATE government not the city government. City council and Mayor can't do shit about that. Blame Cuomo and Albany.

@@johnathin0061892 Make no mistake, I hate DeBoso. But MTA is run by the state government and the city has nothing to do with the trains. And on the voting front, not everyone votes democratic here.

The Chairman of the MTA Board is the head of the MTA

@@uncleelias the chairman of the MTA is nominated by the Governor of the state of New York.

Don't forget the Harlem, Hudson and New Haven lines. They are all part of the MTA too!

@@jimurrata6785 Forgot about those three, thanks!

@@jimurrata6785 Those are all Metro-North, and yes, part of the MTA :)

First Hurricane since Superstorm Sandy. MTA didn’t fix the problems, apparently.

*timing.

The pizza rat is SO iconic, there's video of a man cosplaying as the rat dragging a huge slice of pizza up the stairs. It instantly makes complete sense if you know about the pizza rat.

He wasn't eating it. He was delivering it!

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That was a precious era no doubt, remember the form of the tokens? Very cool. You can still get around pretty much all over the city on one hit of today’s “token” aka the metro card. It’s quite different from London’s Tube and the convoluted pay structure of the Oyster Card. I invite folks to try both.

I think that would be a perfect sideprojects! With other odd stuff along the lines of clothing which is oddly complex at times and has weird history like heels being made for butchers and horse back riding, so ya know, for men.... as well as the history of the bra, or hoodie origin? 🤔 I'm sure there's more funky clothes we use without realizing it's super old or weirdly made

This vid would be interesting. It's actually a whack story😅👍🏻👍🏻

That's how every new yorker views the subway

Same - Once I figured out the express trains, I was like, wow, this IS pretty cool.

where wer you coming from?

@@clobberelladoesntreadcomme9920 Canberra Australia

@@clobberelladoesntreadcomme9920 Super King was the greatest.

Ask Maryland... Literally turned down $123 million in federal funds for transit infrastructure improvements, and said no.

Widening the existing highway, bringing more cars and vans from consumers by buying it, congesting the same highway that brings road rage and the cycles all over again when solving traffic

@@MarloSoBalJr Well, they turned down the $123 million because they would've had to spend billions. Add in all the bribery and labor union corruption and you'd have a disaster. I genuinely do hate to get political, but the problem is that most of America's large cities are poor, dysfunctional, crime-filled, corrupt and dominated by one political party. The rest of the country hates throwing money at these cities, which is always wasted. The vast majority of Americans have absolutely no need for urban transit systems, and those who do have a need can't afford to pay for them.

@@VisibilityFoggy Honestly, "the rest of the country" should STFU. As a person born and raised in NYC, I know for a fact that New York City's five boroughs contribute more to the federal budget (via tax revenue) than most STATES. I also know that New York City has a higher GDP than the vast majority of UN entities (11th highest in the world if it were a country, ahead of Russia). A majority of Americans don't hold a passport. Does that mean we should ignore international travel infrastructure? "The rest of the country" should worry about why they can't get and/or keep a pro sports franchise or why Wyoming was entitled to federal funds earmarked to rebuild after 9/11. New York has subsidized lots of things we're not the least bit interested in or have no need of and we've done it for decades. What's the big deal? And if NYC is poor, what are Sioux City or Montgomery or Baton Rouge? I could rent an Antebellum mansion in Baton Rouge for the price of a broom closet in Manhattan or Brooklyn.....and I'd have a lot more time to make up my mind since that broom closet is not going to be available for very long. You're using that same old tired 'city=bad, exurb/sticks=gud' trope that's been done to death for literally decades. Remember Atlanta? Probably not. When I was a kid, Atlanta was a sleepy small to mid-size town that exploded due to urban flight from places like NYC, Philly, Chicago, Dallas, and Houston. You're right about one thing though: inefficiencies caused by union contracts and government bureaucracy is a serious problem in EVERY heavily populated US city. While heavily populated cities tend to be bastions of liberalism and progressivism, even the "red" cities have this issue (hi Charlotte! Hi Dallas/Fort Worth/Houston/San Antonio/any Texas city not named Austin!). So it's not a case of 'blue=bad, blue=poor, blue=corrupt' as you tried to suggest.

@@Remianen very much agreed!

The main difference is the clearance gauge. IND/BMT is much closer to FRA size at least width wide, while IRT/PATH is a lot narrower.

First came the BMT, with its average loading gauge. Then came the IRT, with tunnels too small for the rival's trains. At last the city invented the IND, then after the merger connected the B division at Chrystie Street

@@sblack53 BMT came well after IRT.

@@woodalexander No, BMT was first, but it didn't have subways. It ran elevated lines. It was added to MTA later.

@@blue9multimediagroup IRT was first.

Would be nice to see a video without the crazy aspect of all the other Denver airport videos I've seen

"The right track" pun intended?

@@irshkashirkle *Shakes head* Absolutely.

The have a plan to bring CBTC to small portions of most the lines and they do work on weekends. Also because of covid they removed 24/7 service but then they just brought it back which is kinda funny

2 lines have CBTC that I know of, the 7 and L. I know the 7 has been a problem since its been installed

@@zrinzoj ya 7 and L (wasn't sure) Problems? Ha! (We in Toronto call its ATC Automatic Train Control) well apparently in an ATC zone one train coming in off a pocket track came within 1 foot of crashing/derailing another train!

Year I was born

@@ronniedelahoussayechauvin6717 I used to use the phrase, "I have _shirts_ older than that." Sadly still true...

In the late 80s when the Big Apple turned bad as in The Equaliser when few rode the subway after 5pm...

I would hope so. The cost of riding the DC metro is on par with getting an Uber.

@@johnallen8248 Not really. But it is well worth the cost.

What definitely needs to happen is to bring the 8 Thrid Avenue Elevated line back where it was and the ninth Ave Elevated line.

The Pelham 6 line definitely needs to be extended to co op city mall because the Connecticut metro North railroad is coming from Pennsylvania station Manhattan Hunts point moriss parkchester and co op city mall BRONX.

The second Ave subway line definitely needs to be extended west side 125 street connecting to the 1 Broadway line.

Long Island railroad is coming to Grand Central terminal Madison Avenue Manhattan. I'm excited about the Long Island railroad is coming to Grand Central.

Ghostbusters 2 found it first lol

@@Will-me8zw You may have been thinking about the abandoned City Hall station on the IRT Lexington Ave line. That is a loop station where the two local tracks switch direction at the end of the line. The tracks are very much still in use, but the station is not. The public can see the station on subway tours riding in a museum train.

Most of the Manhattan substructure is hard solid rock (granite and marble), so boring is very expensive and very impractical. And it is only because of that solid bedrock foundation that so many mega skyscrapers can stand.

Shame you didn't mention how the first subway system in the 1880s was a lie to make a mail tube tunnel so they could get the rights to make the subway.

1- Late 70s was the height of the Fiscal Crisis, nearly every city in the country suffered. 2- It's alright, you're a tourist - it's not *for* you LOL

@@mandisaw even now the subway is terrible its so dirty and horrid it doesn't compare to the London subway or the Tokyo metro

@@abhaymanoj3784 its not that dirty

Or the Paris or London systems...or Singapore or Hong Kong.

The Asian nations have newer systems...makes a big difference

All the European systems were overhauled after the War, and the Asian systems are only a few decades old. None are as extensive, serve as many people (Tokyo might), or operate 24/7. Also none of those places have quite the same animosity between the State and the place being served. Upstate NY hates the City, and would happily privatise or decimate the subway if they could.

Korea's systems are clean and cheap, and pretty good too. They don't always allow you to take a bike on board though.

I hope we keep our iconic "tin cans and bathroom tiles" look

Mine is worm cuddly.

That's Trumps toilet isnt it?

@@anarchyantz1564 no that's BILL GATES. toilet. I mean considering he put some money in RND on water less toilets for mass production his personal must be quite expensive.

Don’t take the elevators

Pissoir sounds better, so elegant and upscale... 🤷‍♂️☝️🙃😅🤭

I'm afraid you don't know how trains physically work. All those lines have different gauges (width between the rails) and different height/width clearances. Metro-North and LIRR already have stations within the Bronx & Queens/Brooklyn, respectively, but there's no way to interoperate them with subways. Closest you can have is a transfer hub, and that already exists at Jamaica hub, Flushing-Main St, & Atlantic terminal (LIRR), and Fordham and 125th Street (MNR). As for freight lines, Amtrak owns those routes - where Metro-North uses them, the State is paying for the privilege. They're even going to double-down with the Gateway project coming into GCT & Penn - nice bit of cash for Amtrak, and convenience for NYC riders of Metro-North.

@@mandisaw I didn’t say “put subway trains on those tracks”. I’m aware that they have different gauges. I was advocating for treating the portion of the LIRR and MNRR within city limits as a subway-like service akin to the RER in Paris. Additional stations could be added along those lines, additional trains could be run to increase service frequency, and the fare could be the same as the subway. While the Paris Metro and the RER operate very different sized trains, for all intents and purposes it operates much like a subway within city limits and becomes a bit more like a commuter train on the outer portions and branch lines.

@@douglasjgallup Can't speak to how Paris does it, but that doesn't make much economic sense here, given that we already have both a subway and a commuter rail. All the rail lines that stop within City limits already have frequent, local service, are generally cheap to use based on their City zone, and are reduced even further on the weekends (CityPass). You can't just add more trains without a ridership need and most city residents either can't afford anything above subway base fare, or are unfamiliar with the way commuter rail operates (fixed schedule, pay before you board, etc). The Bronx is slated to get a handful of new MNR stations, so we'll see how that goes, but as to the existing service, there's already max ridership on those rush hour local trains that serve the City & border stations. Outside of the AM/PM rush, there's just no money in it.

@@douglasjgallup the Parisian RER is a fantastic model for New York’s Metro North and LIRR service. However, I’m wary about converting tracks used by freight trains into transit lines. Freight trains are important.

Please visit again, hospitable neighborhoods you'd love would be: Little Dominican Republic (which isn't so little) - take the A to Dyckman Street and simply enjoy the food markets, outdoor drink carts, people, food and nearby one of the loveliest parks in NYC, Inwood Hill Park. West Village around Hudson and Washington street - less crowded with tree-lined street and nice brownstones with a few pleasant small parks, check out the wonderful revitalization of the West Village Piers. Serviced best by the 1 line Christopher Street and then walk toward Hudson Street then go a little north to Abdington Square and explore the small side streets before walking west to the piers. Jackson Heights Queens - Basically you are traveling several parts of the world within a dozen square blocks. Walk up 74th for the delightful South Asian gold shops, Indian, Pakistani food along with some Nepalese. 37th Ave and Roosevelt heading East will be a great way to see the commercial heart of the area while walking under the 7 (but if you don't want the direct noise of the overhead train, walk 37th Ave that runs parallel to Roosevelt) . Roosevelt Ave , while noisy, will give you a new feel- - Mexican, Columbian stores and some great taco and tamales carts. Walk back north to 35th Avenue for the historic area of Jackson Heights with its London like Garden area and beautiful, large early 20th century apartments, tree-lined avenues and simply a great relaxing walk - it runs approximately from 70th Street all the way to the low 90's along 35th Ave. Go to Google Maps to get a preview. Astoria/LIC area is more spread out but offers many great avenues to explore, eat and check out some good museums and lovely waterfront parks - for hustle and bustle, Broadway, 30th Ave, Ditmars Blvd. A little quieter commercial aves, 36th Ave,31st Ave and 23rd Ave. At the end of Ditmars is a lovely respite with stunning views of northern Manhattan and other parts of the city - Astoria Park. Museums - Museum of Moving Image has three floors of exhibitions about film and animation plus a few theaters to check out old and new classics. Noguchi features the beautiful stone sculptures of Isamoru Noguchi and Socrates Sculpture Park offers a few outdoor installations and pleasant views of Manhattan and the East River. West Side and East Side Ave on opposites sides of Manhattan above 59th Streets provide great walks through affluent residential sections that aren't too busy. You can head to Columbus Ave from West End Ave easily to grab some good food, theaters and more active street life, for East End Ave it is especially lovely in the upper 80's low 90's Streets not far from Gracie Mansion, Lexington 3rd and 2nd Ave all offer commercial corridors to try some good food and check some interesting shops that are spread out. Carl Shurz Park is a good green space, for West End Ave, you have the magnificent park running along the Hudson River that is worth a walk. Caroll Gardens/Boerum Hill, Brooklyn is one of my favorite neighborhoods in NYC. Walk down Smith Street for old school Italian pizzerias and shops. A good place to visit after a visit to one of the best parks in NYC in the neighborhood a little north of this one, Prospect Heights, Prospect Park In Brooklyn which has a Botanical Garden and excellent museum and library close by. I find Caroll Gardens a little warmer area than Prospect Heights (it is a gorgeous area but not as welcoming as Carrol Gardens. Morris Heights /Bronx Community College - Bronx NY. This area is not always mentioned but if you want to see cool architecture and one of the most interesting and pretty walks in NYC, check out the Hall of Fame Walk in Bronx Community College as well as their new library done in a late 19th century French neo-classical style. The Hall of Fame features busts of artists, scientists, politicians and military from the 19th century to early 20th. There is nothing like it inNYC and I rarely see this in other American cities, Europe probably has more of this but the Hall of Fame walk is really worth the trip. GO to Burnside Ave 6 train stop in Bronx, enjoy the riot of West African and Puerto Rican/Domincan restaurants before entering the quieter working class neighborhoods with its mix of 2 family homes and large apartment buildings. West Brighton, Staten Island and the Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden. It is a bit of a hike but Snug Harbor is worth the trip featuring historic 19th century homes that housed retired sailors, ample green spaces, a great Japanese Garden and later in the Summer early Fall some astounding art displays. For eats best to find places closer to the ferry in the St George neighborhood with is hills and overlook of New York Bay giving it feel of parts of San Francisco. Staten Island is best visited with a car --- plus a car would allow you to easily visit Bay Ridge, another great neighborhood, in Brooklyn and drive over the Verrazano Narrows bridge which is a treat. This would afford you a chance to visit military sites such as the 19th century fort, Fort Wadsworth and check out restaurants in other sections of Staten Island.

@@chrissahar2014 WoW! That’s a lot of info! Thanks!

Honestly, best tap water I've ever had

Corruption & Software Corruption & App Mobsters. I DO NOT SUPPORT NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS. I WAS USED WITHOUT MY KNOWLEDGE & MY RIGHTS WERE TAKEN AWAY FROM ME FOR NO REASON. NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL & OTHER INSURANCE COMPANIES FALSIFYING DOCUMENTS. STOLEN PROPERTY & INSURANCE THEFT TOO. CORRUPT ENTERPRISE. VERY DANGEROUS!

It's hub & spoke, but the buses are meant to provide the "webbing" between lines. Having lived in Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx, and worked in Brooklyn, I'd say Manhattan & the Bronx are easily the best served (by location coverage & frequency), while Queens & Brooklyn outside of LIC & Downtown Bklyn are just woefully underserved "stepchildren" a hair above Long Island.

Have used the bus & subway to get to school or travel to museums & such since I was a kid. Started commuting on my own in about 5th grade, out in Queens back when there were like 5 private bus companies, before the MTA absorbed them all (late 80s).

Daddy, chill!

I'm still waiting on a return from ETA's MLM. I sent him $150 and all I got was a sticker. The anti-5g cream hasn't even arrived yet!

What?

At least the D.C. Metro is clean and the stations are well maintained. I've actually turned down a couple job offers in the D.C. area because I have no desire to live in the district, and everything takes forever from the suburbs.

I’d like to see the Stockholm, Paris, and Tokyo ones as well. The Tokyo rail system is about as mega as it gets.

The Soviet systems are pretty cool in that they tried to add art and cultural type stuff the subways very early on. Granted, some of this was propaganda in favor of brutal communist dictators, but that's mostly been removed. 😂

Ugh, it is a damn shame they never put that into production. Probably the most beautiful combat helicopter ever made.

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But muricans love cars Same with guns Has to do something with freedom or u guess little egos

@@KingJohnMichael You prove yourself to be a true idiot! You talk about “right wing”ers and guns and little egos! Seems a “little ego” is something you actually have yourself! Pontificating & looking down on people, thinking you’re so worldly and sophisticated! Let me clue you in on something, no one thinks you’re worldly and sophisticated! No one cares what you think! Save us all and keep your opinions to yourself?

The "not clean and new" is fine for a few days on vacation, but becomes misery quickly. The other issue is that once you leave the tourist areas of Manhattan, you start seeing some very scary people on the subways as it goes through very dangerous neighborhoods. People are assaulted, robbed, etc. on a regular basis, and it has gotten FAR worse over the last year as the city has stopped police from arresting people and letting criminals out of jail with no bond. It's not so much the system itself or the rolling stock - it's the other riders that cause many people to avoid the subway.

@@VisibilityFoggy Pandemic aside, what most outsiders call "scary people" often equates to "Black commuters on their way home". I've come home on the train at 2am - Bklyn to Bronx! - and felt safer than driving out West at 8pm.

@@VisibilityFoggy I ride the subway every single day and I rarely see anything like what you're describing. It's not so much that the subway goes through "dangerous neighborhoods" as the subway is itself is full of "sketchy people". A lot of drug addicts and mentally ill people, people trying to sell things, preachers, annoying performance artists.

That's the best way to put it cause they spend the money on dumb shit like the contractors and the work is not worth the money

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Hah - we used to have private, non-union bus lines in NYC in my lifetime. It sucked - they pulled service in bad weather, cut routes or reduced frequency in poorer neighborhoods, and still charged the City a mint for the privilege. Look at Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, or Pennsylvania if you want to see what happens when municipal & commercial labor unions are broken - rips the heart right out of a city/state.

Yeah dude that lil toy train set is a side project at best.

@@Jasruler Simon's new channel: Fail Projects (very close to Business Blaze but without humor)

It doesn't.

it has more coverage and trains come more often, but being built in 1860 there is no ventilation so is slowly being made unfit for human life by climate change

@superdug have to agree about the NYC subway compared to the London tube. It’s night and day. The nyc stations seem grubby and it’s like stepping back in time on the carriages. Though they are starting to trial 24hr services on some of the major lines and sorting out things like wifi and AC in the trains themselves It should be highly informative to see how the new Elizabeth line does when it opens I have less hope for the nyc subway keeping up with other modern metros

@@METALFACEDOOMXXXX oh it does the london tube is much better and cleaner unlike new york

@@abhaymanoj3784 NYC subway is real and gritty unlike London's vaginal tube!

The 70's? Hop an AC line. "FRANKAVENOWTHISHBRAWAYJUKSHUNTRANSFERTOSERVICELRZJRLINES"

Pretty universal - the British BBC 'Goon Show' even parodied it .......'Minnador, Minnador'

That must have been good ol' working class joe biden during the day.

@@Jasruler or the 6!

Ohhhh my. Don't get me started! The 406 bus has only been running every 2ish hours due to "operator availability" for at least 2 months. And sometimes, I get a driver on the last bus into Philly that takes an unannounced piss stop somewhere in Camden. Like, he just pulls over about 1-2 miles before Walter Rand and urinates on the side of the road. I _wish_ I was kidding. I'm usually the only one, maybe 1 or 2 others, on that bus and I'm usually zoning out and knitting before realizing that I got _that_ driver. I could write books on NJT, Patco, and Septa adventures (from this week alone). 😂

Forget that. I lived in Queens back when there were 5 private bus lines, before the MTA bought them out. Still remember freezing my little-kid ass off in the snow because the private bus owners didn't want to risk equipment damage or driver overtime and pulled all their buses off the line. Public transit is essential to a truly democratic economy. Queens & Brooklyn barely have real public transit service, so you see all the poorer folks crammed onto too-infrequent buses, or using dollar vans & rideshares to reach distant trains, while others pay a second rent's worth of money to keep a car without the convenience of a suburban garage. We need to properly fund & maintain the subway like the essential public infrastructure that it is.

Yup. Even now if you look at the operational budget for the system, it's all going to labor. The system is already 50% funded by riders and more than 50% of the cost is going towards labor. If the system was automated like most modern systems, it would be profitable, and that's just one piece of the puzzle. A ton of money that the system generates goes to subsidize the LIRR, Metro North, and the buses. If the subway was split from those system too, the thing would probably be a cash cow.