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.
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 :)
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.