Is NYC a good place to live when it comes to public transportation?
It’s about as good as it gets! Fact: New York is the only major U.S. city in which the majority of residents do not own cars. Fact: New York is the safest big city in the U.S. The MTA has a vast web of trains and buses to cover just about every imaginable part of the five boroughs. Some trips aren’t the most convenient (northeast Queens to southeast Queens, for example), but for the most part, it works beautifully. It’s cheap, it’s fast, and it is fairly easy. Between the subway, the buses, the SIRR, the LIRR, PATH, the AirTrain, NJ Transit, and Metro-North, New York makes it very easy to live here and get around via mass transit. EDIT: As for where to live, all five boroughs have some good neighborhoods, some bad neighborhoods, and many average neighborhoods. I’d say Staten Island is LEAST convenient for mass transit. Manhattan is MOST convenient. The other three are still very convenient.
