Any commuters to NYC from Brewster? (Putnam: rentals, house, transferring to)

[canyontothesky]

We are moving to Westchester or Putnam county in the spring/summer, and I see a lot of affordable rentals in Brewster, and we had visited a few months back and liked the area.
We knew when we decided to move that it would add a significant amount of time to commute into Manhattan (my DBF works in the financial district, but I will be working locally), and we capped the total travel time at 90 minutes, plus or minus, but looking again at the train schedules to Southeast and Brewster... it might be a lot.
My boyfriend has an Amazon Kindle that he adores and is thoroughly distracted by, so I know the actual train won't be bad, it's just that when you give up hours of your day to commuting it tends not to leave a lot. His current commute is anywhere between 30-50 min.

So, does anyone here commute to NYC daily from Brewster? How is it? Comments/suggestions welcome.

[SLP247]

A HUGE number of people commute to NYC from this area! Really, Check out the train stations throughout the area (there is more than one) and see how many are jumping on in the AM.

Most people who move up to this area are doing it because they want land. They want to experience the benefits of the country/burbs.

I am sure you will like this area as many of my clients do.

[Viralmd]

When I was younger we had a country home in Connecticut, with the nearest station Brewster. When I had a summer job, I used to take the train to Brewster on Friday evenings to go away for the weekend.

I frankly cannot begin to imagine doing that trip twice daily, though many do. It was endless.

[jennly]

A few years ago we rented a house on Candlewood Lake for the summer and drove by Brewster. I can't imagine living all the way up there and going down into wall street every day.

BTW, for many years I worked for a company in midtown Manhattan that attracted people from all over NJ and Connecticut. It was not that unusual to find people who had commutes of 2 and even 3 hours each way. I kid you not. So I think if you live within a day's journey of Manhattan, you are always going to find people there who are willing to commute into the city.

[SLP247]

@ Jennly,

Yes that is very true. I guess it depends where people were raised or what they are use to. Some consider the 1 hour commute IDEAL while the next county up has quite a bit of people commuting 2 hours. However, it seems that for most: 1 hour is the max as that is what I am usually requested to find. "A place 1 hour from Manhattan"

[havoc315]

From Brewster, your door to door commute to the Financial District will be well over 90 minutes. Getting to the train station, waiting for the train, then transferring to subway, and then walking to office. The only way to keep that entire commute to under 90 minutes, is to look for a much more southern town.