New York Subway

Subway is the most fast and inexpensive way to get around the city. Operated by the MTA New York City Transit it serves 3.5 million people each day. Tokens ($1.50 each) and freesubway maps can be picked up at any one of the 469 stations located in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan from a clerk. Free subway and bus maps are also available at the same locations. The fair can also be paid by a Metro Card. These cards can be purchased at the stations as well as most grocery stores, check cashing places and pharmacies.

If you need to travel outside of the city borrows there are five subway-style PATH (Port Authority Trans-Hudson) stations along Sixth Avenue – 33rd Street, 23rd Street, 14th Street, 9th Street and Christopher Street – and another at the World trade Center. Trains from all of those points run to terminals in either Hoboken, Jersey City, Harrison, or Newark, NJ, or transfers are available to these points. There, they connect with 10 NJ Transit commuter lines that serve New Jersey, as well as Orange and Rockland County, N.Y. Tokens and Path Cards can be purchased from a clerk on the stations. If you need more information please call (201) 216-6557 or 1-800-234-7284.

During rush hours Subway presents gridlock-free commute thus being the fastest means of transportation in New York City and it’s borrows.

Although the crime in the city is going down it is advisable to follow some safety rules during late hours:

• Avoid secluded areas
• If waiting for the train stay in an area provided next to the clerk and/or security. A special signal will inform you a minute an advance when the train is arriving
• Try to take the middle car where train operator assistant usually is

For further information, call the Travel Information Center, from 6 am to 9 p.m. seven days a week (718) 330-1234.

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