All subway stations and busses are now Metrocard capable. The primary method of fare payment is the Metrocard. Over 4.3 million people ride the subway system every day over 1 billion people go through the turnstiles per year! While minor theft and homelessness still abound, the subway is a much better place than was predicted back in the financially troubled days of the city. The hot and dingy subway system of the 1970's has been completely renovated into a safe, convenient and comfortable mode of transportation between nearly all areas of New York City. William Miller An NYPD vehicle drives through partially submerged streets amid Ida in NYC.The New York City subway system is one of the most efficient people transports in the entire world. “Finally made it through to higher ground and a fellow passenger exclaims ‘oh no I missed my stop.’” Residents navigate through the flooded streets in Brooklyn.

“Hero bus driver managed to get us safely through the 3-4 feet of rain coursing down the boulevard, but only seemed to be getting worse,” Joe English tweeted. A Twitter user aboard a bus on Queens Boulevard shared footage of what looked like a raging river outside the driver’s windshield, adding the bus was fully flooded and multiple cars were stuck in the water. It wasn’t any safer for commuters above ground. Stefan Jeremiah for New York Post Flood waters in the parking lot of the Aldi supermarket seen in Belleville, New Jersey. Abandoned cars trapped in flood waters at the intersection of Main Street and the exit 7 slip road of the McCarter Highway in Belleville, New Jersey on Wednesday September 1, 2021.

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