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I just moved to NY. And having two young sons, plus coming from TX, we wanted some green and space... We ended up looking all over westchester and the home inventory was low... Depressing and expensive homes galore. We ended up in Ardsley which is really nice, but i find myself wondering - maybe a little obsessed - about how good or not our commute is.
Please tell me how long is your commute door to door. I drive 10 minutes to Scarsdale, take a 30 minute train to GCS and then walk 7 minutes to the office, but given parking time, lights, etc... I end up taking no less than 55 minutes everyday. How is your commute? Please be realistic, dont tell me its 30 minutes to the city if thats only the train ride. Pls. Tell me from which train station and whether you get Penn or GCS... THANKS!
I am just below Yonkers in Riverdale. When I use Metro-North door to door, the commute is about an hour since I also have to take the Hudson Rail Link shuttle bus to get to the Riverdale station. The train ride is about 25 minutes to Grand Central. Consider yourself lucky at 55 minutes...
From Ossining to GCT, the train is ~45 minutes; if I drive to the station, it takes 7 minutes; if I walk, 15 minutes. My job takes me all over Manhattan, so that's another 10-30 minutes, depending on where I need to go.
Croton on Hudson--about an hour and 10-15 minutes each way.
That includes 5 minute drive to the station and 10 minute walk to office from GCT. Don't know about you but
I find that the MTA's posted arrival times are almost always 3-5 minutes behind reality.
I count arrival as train stopped on platform and doors open.
I just moved to NY. And having two young sons, plus coming from TX, we wanted some green and space... We ended up looking all over westchester and the home inventory was low... Depressing and expensive homes galore. We ended up in Ardsley which is really nice, but i find myself wondering - maybe a little obsessed - about how good or not our commute is.
Please tell me how long is your commute door to door. I drive 10 minutes to Scarsdale, take a 30 minute train to GCS and then walk 7 minutes to the office, but given parking time, lights, etc... I end up taking no less than 55 minutes everyday. How is your commute? Please be realistic, dont tell me its 30 minutes to the city if thats only the train ride. Pls. Tell me from which train station and whether you get Penn or GCS... THANKS!
hour fifteen from pleasantville. 2 min Drive to station, 50 minute to gc 10 - 15 min subway to downtown
50-55 minutes from my front door to sitting at my desk. Take the train from Rye and my office is a block from Grand Central. The time includes stopping at a deli on 42nd St to pick up breakfast before I go up to my office.
Chappaqua to Rockfeller Center area--about an hour fifteen, and I live very close to the station and get dropped off. I agree that you have to be careful when people in Westchester talk about commute times because there are a lot of little bits that get ignored. For example, a train arriving on the lower level means a close to 5 minute added trek underground for me just to get up to the street at 47th and Madison.
Very few lucky people, even in lower WC, have a commute that's truly less than 45-50 minutes door to door. Don't get obsessed with it. I've lived in TX too and to get green and space in urban TX with schools the likes of Ardsley, you'd be spending 45 minutes in the HOV lane, which is much more draining than the time on Metro North.
Hour and fifteen from Briarcliff to Rock center. less than 5 min drive to train, 45/50 min on train, 15 min walk
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