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I know by car the trip would be horrible - how is the trip from Madison to Manhattan and Brooklyn by train? Which one is faster and requires less transfers? Thanks!
To get to Manhattan from Madison, you would catch a Shoreline East train at Madison station to New Haven and then switch to a Metro North train to take you to Grand Central. The train switch in New Haven is usually just getting off one train and walking across the platform to the waiting train next to it. It is a long trip, but not too bad.
To get to Brooklyn (New York, not Connecticut) though is a lot harder. From Grand Central I think you catch a subway train downtown and then switch to a subway to Brooklyn. I had a family member that lived in Brooklyn and only did this once and swore never to do it again. I used to drive but even that was a nightmare. Brooklyn is not an easy city to get to. Jay
From Grand Central I think you catch a subway train downtown and then switch to a subway to Brooklyn.
It's a direct subway train from GCT to Brooklyn on the 4 or 5 train if heading to downtown Brooklyn, Barclays Center, Prospect Heights, Crown Heights or Flatbush. For other areas in Brooklyn, a transfer is required.
Peak hours - transfer is made in Stamford, except if leaving Madison at 5:25am or 5:55 am. Trains marked "THRU" go straight through New Haven to Stamford.
Keep in mind that if doing this during rush hour, those 4 & 5 trains from GCT to Wall Street are absolutely packed - as in use the "white gloved pushers from Tokyo to wedge people in" packed. Even getting down the stairs from GCT into the subway was a battle against two competing waves of humanity: those going up, and those going down. But once they were able to close the train doors, the trip to Downtown only took 20 minutes. How much longer to get into Brooklyn, I'm not sure as thankfully that wasn't a trip I needed to make.
We live in Monroe and I drive my wife to the bridgeport station in the morning (and pick her up at fairfield metro at night) - door to door for her (she works across from the empire state building) it's a 2 hour commute roughly...she hates it. So you are probably looking at a 3 hour door to door commute which I would imagine could get awful if doing it daily both ways. I think one of the worst parts about it is how rude people can be on the train....
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