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> Also, you can presently get there by bus - https://new.mta.info/guides/beaches/jones-beach https://new.mta.info/guides/beaches/jones-beach That route is abso
by jprete 3y ago
> Also, you can presently get there by bus - https://new.mta.info/guides/beaches/jones-beach https://new.mta.info/guides/beaches/jones-beach
That route is absolutely awful. For a typical NYC resident - not even "typical working-class" but anyone - going one-way is 75-100 minutes, two transfers, and around $25-30 per person, while carrying everything you need for the beach. Only the last 20 minutes are actually by bus.
- steveBK123 3y agoCompared to what? I mean.. what good beaches can you get to from NYC, even by car, in 75-100min? That's like how long it takes me to drive to Jones Beach, from Brooklyn, on a good day.
- spopejoy 3y agoAmazing how many NYCers miss out on Rockaway Beach. Much shorter drive. Accessible by subway. Just a better beach than Jones -- far superior food and entertainment at the concessions, and way way bigger.
- steveBK123 3y agoSure, I've been there. But even living in North Brooklyn, my travel options there are - 59min drive or 75min trains&walking. People make these grand statements like we've purposely made it impossible for poor people to get to the beach by bus, but everything in NYC is impossible to get to for everyone, all the time. Anyway, if you are in Manhattan, the real play is LIRR to Long Beach. Frequent trains, extremely clean, lots of space, long boardwalk, rental bikes, lots of food & restaurants, clean restrooms (amazingly rare at US beaches).. $15/person (kids under 13 free, and I think theres a family pass) to enter beach.