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You could always walk the GW, or take the ferry.

Tangent: I used to walk on the weekends from my apartment on 123 & Lex, to the 125 street A, take it up to 175th, walk a block over, get on the GW, walk across, then hike down to Hoboken, PATH back to Manhattan, and walk back up town until my legs gave out. Depending on where I stopped , I would either subway or lyft back to my apartment.

It allowed me to experience NJ which I would never have done. And I found places to get my hair cut for < $30, which was more than half off from my local barber, and clothes were tax free, which was TONS better than tax free under $100, etc. I learned so much traveling into NJ regularly, and eventually moved there.




You only had to walk 5-10 blocks south into Spanish Harlem to get a ~13 dollar haircut but totally agree on the taxes for purchases.

I always found NYC specific travel funny. For example, it can take an hour an a half to get from the Upper West Side to Brooklyn but a bus ride from NYC to somewhere like Philly is often under 2 hours.


... and brooklyn to philly is probably 3.0 hours (1h to midtown bus, same 2 hrs from there), sooo...


If you'd kept walking north from 125th, you could go to Hamilton Heights where I get a haircut for twenty bucks. That's ten bucks left over for a beer or two across the street :)


I now live upstate where my barber charges $12 for a cut and shave.




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