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I just returned from my niece's beautiful wedding at Saint Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in Bayshore and reception in a place called The Watermill in Smithtown.
Driving from Philly there was a $11.50 toll on the NJ Turnpike, a $12 toll through the Holland Tunnel and then a $6.50 toll through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel.
My point is this: I was born in Long Island but moved away many, many years ago - I am out of touch with what things cost in Long Island. The price of gas was about .35 per gallon more than Philly, and .45 more than New Jersey. The three days I was there I did some food shopping and even checked out a free magazine listing rental apartments.
Yikes! I don't think I could afford to live on Long Island!
Well, unfortunately you spent $12 more than you needed to on the trip up. If you took the more sensible and direct route through Staten Island, you'd have paid for one bridge from NJ to SI and then gotten a freebie (no toll eastbound) over the Verrazano.
Well, unfortunately you spent $12 more than you needed to on the trip up. If you took the more sensible and direct route through Staten Island, you'd have paid for one bridge from NJ to SI and then gotten a freebie (no toll eastbound) over the Verrazano.
Agreed. The wedding party should have informed out-of-state guests of these things as a courtesy.
Even those of us who attempt to live on Long Island really can't afford it. Unless of course you're a public servant with a guaranteed pension in the millions. Then you're sitting pretty.
Spoken like someone who has never seen a real rich person. Yeah, it's a few cops making $250k that are sitting pretty, not the finance crooks paying a special 15% rate on their income and the corporations using loopholes to pay no taxes.
Spoken like someone who has never seen a real rich person. Yeah, it's a few cops making $250k that are sitting pretty, not the finance crooks paying a special 15% rate on their income and the corporations using loopholes to pay no taxes.
Spoken like someone who has never seen a real rich person. Yeah, it's a few cops making $250k that are sitting pretty, not the finance crooks paying a special 15% rate on their income and the corporations using loopholes to pay no taxes.
Can you tell me which profession makes 100,000+ with just an associates, works 20 years and is done, then gets a pension which includes their overtime? Please let me know.
Can you tell me which profession makes 100,000+ with just an associates, works 20 years and is done, then gets a pension which includes their overtime? Please let me know.
This was not uncommon in the post-WW2 golden age, before the plutocrats and their paid-for government stooges figured out how to sell out the middle class and pocket a greater share of the country's wealth.
But I digress. Point is, public servants are a drop in the bucket compared to the graft that goes on beyond the curtain, where the truly rich don't want you to look.
you could have saved the Brooklyn Battery toll - shouldve just taken FDR north to the 59th St bridge (free) and hopped onto the GCp--NSP out east.
There are cheaper alternatives - those who live here find creative ways to make our money stretch here.
I was much more sensible about my trip back. I took the Queensboro Bridge to Manhattan, through the Lincoln Tunnel - no tolls so far; to Rts. 1 and 9 Called Tonnele Ave.) to Newark; NJ Turnpike to Princeton - about $6.50 toll I think; then I switched to Rt. 295 which runs parallel to the Turnpike but toll-free as far as Burlington-Bristol Bridge to Philly - toll was $2.50. Total: about $9.00.
If I took the NJ-Philly bridges: the Betsy Ross, the Ben Franklin, or the Walt Whitman - the toll would have been $5.00.
I was much more sensible about my trip back. I took the Queensboro Bridge to Manhattan, through the Lincoln Tunnel - no tolls so far; to Rts. 1 and 9 Called Tonnele Ave.) to Newark; NJ Turnpike to Princeton - about $6.50 toll I think; then I switched to Rt. 295 which runs parallel to the Turnpike but toll-free as far as Burlington-Bristol Bridge to Philly - toll was $2.50. Total: about $9.00.
wow. how long did that take?
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