They've already bloomed in my neighborhood at least.

There is no express bus that close to me and the closest one stops at around 7 PM. Therefore, it's useless to anyone who works off-shift. I've never lived anywhere that had overnight express buses.

I am talking about going from the outer boroughs to the city and back, which is my experience as someone who has commuted like this for years. Off-shift is a joke. Between the outer boroughs completely sucks but that is not what I was speaking to in my first comment.

I don't live in Jersey but I worked nights and evenings, including weekends, for many years in health care. Transit completely sucks. Walking on the streets at that time of night sucks. Sometimes my commute back to Brooklyn would be TWO HOURS working evenings/weekends. If I drove, it would've been thirty minutes or less.

I still work evenings and they screwed with my train line so my commute home requires multiple train transfers, which is not an issue during the day. However, if one of those trains is messed up, there goes the entire ride home.

It's a totally different animal during the day. You have tons of buses, trains, express buses, etc. I feel like working evenings/nights, especially in a "twenty-four hour city" at places that need you to be there to keep patients alive, is something that should be considered. Staffing at many of these places already sucks, and adding the additional cost when you're already picking up "off shifts" will probably have people looking elsewhere.

You just have to do it and given your responses here, it would definitely be worth taking lessons. Start out where it's less congested and slowly move your way inward.

You would pull up into the intersection (as long as there is space for you to turn onto that street because you should not block it) and when the cars finish coming from the opposite way (red light), you can make your left turn to get out of the intersection.

When I was a kid they had free lessons every summer (and sometimes the winter) in parks across the city. I think they still do it. Great program.

Me too. Took forever for my job to fix it.

The other day someone got on the train, knife in hand, and everyone from that car was able to leave that one and close off the door from him until the following stop where the police were waiting.

That's not really true. I don't know why people are such sticklers for using Manhattan as the basis of affordability. My sister almost never works OT and lives very comfortably on her income. She works three days per week. She has her own one bedroom apartment. She lives in a good location (not Manhattan) that's very close to the train.

At my place, the nurses only work OT when they are short nurses.

People would say the same thing in my field (also healthcare, not as well-paid as nurses.) I used to work lots of OT and had second jobs. This was just for the extra money that I put to good use.

Starting salary at a crappy city hospital is 80Kish. That's starting, no differential or extras included in that rate, plus a pension. Truly garbage pay is usually at places like nursing homes.

I know hospitals like Mount Sinai are so cheap. I'm in healthcare, not nursing, and I applied for a job there once as a per diem. When I told them my desired rate for a job with no benefits, they told me it was "really high." I knew that wasn't true because I had already worked in the field for years. But my god it was the type of position you don't want to play around with in terms of hiring and they were taken aback by a very reasonable ask.

The bigger issue is definitely burnout. My sibling is an RN in a crazy ED and she has a RIDICULOUS amount of patients at times. She deals with all kinds of people, is threatened regularly, etc. Even with that, she said if it wasn't that short it wouldn't be so horrible. And the contract nurses she said are a BIG hit or miss. She's literally had some traveler nurses show up and do almost nothing for 3x the pay.

Where my parents live they only just got the first elevator (no escalators either) in the entire neighborhood in the last few years. This was only at one station out of four.

I was going to say I used to hear it on the news all of the time. 🤷‍♂️

I think if you have no where really important to be (work), you're exploring, you don't live far from transit, and not working off hours, it's pretty good.

I've actually walked from Pelham Bay to City Island before (it's a bit of a walk, many people bike as well) and it's a nice walk. I've also walked up toward Pelham/Pelham Manor (also a bike trail.)

And I've been on so many buses where it's very jerky, with abrupt stops that send people flying sometimes. I'm so scared I would drop them.

Whenever I visit someone in MV, Verizon is TERRIBLE.

Lehman is pretty nice too.

The store was terrible. Hardly anything there. Couldn't order things to the location, though randomly certain things you could. The layout was awful. And the last time I was there, all I could notice was the HORRIBLE smell in there --- I mean, really bad. And it had smelled the time I was there before and nothing had been remedied.

There are way bigger fish to fry than straws.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/07/11/627773979/why-people-with-disabilities-want-bans-on-plastic-straws-to-be-more-flexible