I lived in Bay Terrace during my last three years of attending a high school on the Upper East Side. The bus-subway commute was brutal, about the same amount of

I lived in Bay Terrace during my last three years of attending a high school on the Upper East Side. The bus-subway commute was brutal, about the same amount of time as the described LIRR-subway commute to the NYSE. Around the middle of my last year of high school I drove with my father to the Bayside LIRR station and took a series of subway lines to get from Penn Station to the Upper East Side. This was closer to an hour. Prior to 10th grade I lived in the middle of Brooklyn, and my one-fare subway commute to the same school was no more than an hour. I remember reading that there were proposals to extend the present-day 7 line from Flushing to somewhere around Bayside in the late '60s or early '70s, but these were abandoned due to NIMBY-ism. I actually have known of a few people who regularly commuted from Poughkeepsie (and a few other similar-distance places in Connecticut and New Jersey) to the city.