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The train is fine. Penn Station has a fair share of homeless people trying to stay warm and dry. I feel sorry for them but also wary as some of them have untreated mental illness and can act erratically. The last time I was there I left through the main escalator that lets out on 33rd and 7th and there was a group of people on the sidewalk sitting in a circle on salvaged office chairs smoking pot at 8:30 am on a Tuesday. I can walk to my office so i don’t have to take the subway. With either LIRR or subway the key is to stick to well-lit busy places and avoid off hours.
The train is fine. Penn Station has a fair share of homeless people trying to stay warm and dry. I feel sorry for them but also wary as some of them have untreated mental illness and can act erratically. The last time I was there I left through the main escalator that lets out on 33rd and 7th and there was a group of people on the sidewalk sitting in a circle on salvaged office chairs smoking pot at 8:30 am on a Tuesday. I can walk to my office so i don’t have to take the subway. With either LIRR or subway the key is to stick to well-lit busy places and avoid off hours.
The ratio of mentally ill/homeless/troubled to others in/around Penn Station does seem different than two years ago. That certainly impacts concerns regarding safety. (And especially so during off hours.)
If you're commuting to work, please take the train. The roads are more filled every day with commuters who obviously haven't done it in awhile, if ever, and they're slowing everybody else down.
This is a nutty conversation. Don't confuse the media coverage of subway crime incidents with suburban rail. Please, take the rail; it is 100% safe, and far more efficient. The traffic is out of control. I have lived in NYC for 50+ years and the subway situation is bad, but I would say our mayor basically erased 30 years of improvements and it is similar to the early 1980s. If you ride the subway, mind your own business, don't flash your valuables -- which these days is not a gold chain but your fancy $1,000 iPhone -- and you will be fine. NYC remains far safer than any other large city -- the current mayor simple narrowed that gap by leaps and bounds. Good riddance.
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