I’d pay $15 at an established restaurant. Maybe. But from a food truck at an ice rink? For some Buffalo chicken or bacon on top, all served on a paper plate and likely in tiny portions? That’s insane, regardless how good it is.

>NYC friends will NEVER visit you

then not really your friends.........

I keep seeing were ethnically diverse but were also super segregated.

$85.50?

asking for 120/month is not providing a discount. the annual prepayment is 1500 so 125/month.

$100/month or less would offering a discount

The entire council and mayor are clowns. Awful bunch.

Seconding the nod to Kuppi Coffee! They’re fantastic!

LOL

"NYC's Mac and cheese truck"???

That's just flat untrue. The cyclist was definitely being an idiot and created the situation, but he was struck by the front of her car. If you ask me, any competent driver should have had time to at least start to apply the brakes. Then she fled the scene instead of stopping to render aid and call the police.

She helped him to seek the medical care he never knew he needed

What sealed it for me was proximity to other places I go a lot. My family is all in Philly. JC to Philly is way easier than Brooklyn to Philly both via public transit and by car.

OP thinks they opened a restaurant

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Yeah, that cyclist blew a red light and slammed into her. Saying she hit him is straight up libelous.

Thank you for the additional info! I've passed by their location several times and they seem like a great organization. Will give them a call tomorrow to see if they're accepting in-person volunteers!

The double fare sucks, for sure. I really wish the relevant authorities could coordinate on that. At least you don't need a whole new card anymore, that's an improvement.

But like I said in my original post, there are a lot of problems that a five figure savings in taxes will solve. There are worse places my money could be going than funding transit agencies, so I ain't real mad about it.

A one-seat ride is awfully nice and convenient, but just being on the MTA doesn't guarantee that. When I lived in Brooklyn, most of my trips were not one-seat rides, and the same is true when I visit friends now. The convenience factor tends to be (for us, these days) that we'll use transit on the way there, with books in our bags if need be, and if we stay out pretty late we'll take a car back. There again you've the cost of the tunnel compared to Lyfting between two spots within the city, but again, we'd have to be a lot more social than we are to make a noticeable dent in our overall savings living in JC.

So money aside, for us it's a time question, and Jersey City via the PATH is as close in minutes to anywhere we'd want to go as southern Brooklyn would be.

I used to volunteer there for a few years but Covid kind of put a pause on volunteering for the shelter. I’m pretty sure things are up and running now but I’d make sure to call ahead and ask what times/days they need volunteers for!

I usually spent time stocking/organizing the pantry or assisting with their clothing boutique! You decide how much time you want to put in and I don’t think they’re open on weekends :)

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Dearth of culture compared to BK. There’s much more to do there.

The subway connections to the outer boroughs might be just as infrequent as the PATH, but at least those people don’t always need to make transfers or pay double fares.

For example, WTC might be a quick 10 minute trip from JC. But how many people actually have the WTC area as their final destination? Most people are probably going to need to transfer to a different part of the city. Those kinds of trips are less desirable than a simple one-seat ride between Manhattan and, say, Park Slope.

I don't disagree at all on lengthy platform waits being an absolute drag, and an important consideration to over-all travel times. I've just also lived in Brooklyn, where latenight trains have the exact same problem. Maybe if you're in midtown Manhattan you can expect a train every few minutes at any time of day, but OP is considering like Sunset Park. I have friends in Park Slope, Gowanus, Boerum Hill, and Bay Ridge and we don't assume late-night trains will be convenient.

The Grove - WTC Path is as reliable as any outer-borough subway line that I personally have ever had to rely on.

Maybe, but if so, it's cool then. Think 120 is fair being that a regular membership is 160

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Hi! I'm not the OP but also interested in volunteer opps - I went to the YSP website and couldn't find a specific page or section on volunteering (most links directed me to various donation or gifting pages). I'm not sure if you'd know or currently work/volunteer there, but would we need to call in to ask specifically about volunteering?