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Oh please, you can walk .8 in around 10 minutes if you are the average person person. I am only 5'3" and I can walk a whole mile in 15 minutes. You act like the subway is at 56th and lexington and you have to walk from 110th and 1st.
Wow, that's one hell of a power walk you're doing...a slow mile (jogging) is 12 minutes. The average time to walk a mile is actually 20 minutes. So for the average person, walking to the subway from Yorkville would take at least 15 minutes (assuming it's a straight shot and they don't have to cross streets in addition to the avenues). Doesn't seem long but to put it another way, 0.8 miles is the same as walking from 34th st to 18th st- which has 3 or 4 subway stops between that span depending on the line. So in terms of normal subway proximity, the Yorkville-to-subway walk is far.
Personally, I don't think that walk is far, but then again I choose to walk pretty much everything under 30 blocks, weather permitting.
The schlep to the Lexington Avenue line is nothing! And it's good for your health. I've lost 10 pounds since I moved to NY in August, and a significant part of it is due to my daily walk back and forth to the subway. I could take the 86th bus, but I often don't do so.
A "brisk walk" is usually defined as 3 mph...that's 20 minutes to the mile. Alas, traffic on streetcorners and people waddling 4 abreast make that rate untenable without a machete. I find 2 miles an hour is about right in reality (30 minutes per mile.)
I am 1/4 mile from the subway and I usually figure 8 minutes to the platform (10 minutes if anything hurts. )
If I had to walk from East End or even York, I'd take a bus.
Bit of a redundant question, anything between 34th St and 96th St (S-N) and 5th av to York Av (W-E) i.e the entire Upper East Side is about New York City's best neighborhood in terms of quality of life BUT, it is one of the most expensive.
Bit of a redundant question, anything between 34th St and 96th St (S-N) and 5th av to York Av (W-E) i.e the entire Upper East Side is about New York City's best neighborhood in terms of quality of life BUT, it is one of the most expensive.
Yep, that is absolutely correct.
(And all the real estate hype about gentrifying Harlem, the Bronx, Astoria, and even Park Slope will not change that fact one iota.)
The average time to walk a mile is actually 20 minutes. So for the average person, walking to the subway from Yorkville would take at least 15 minutes (assuming it's a straight shot and they don't have to cross streets in addition to the avenues).
Note it's also uphill from York to Lexington.
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