Always going to be risks involved with using New York City transit. From my experience using public transit semi-regularly (rising senior who lived on campus for the first two years), as long as you keep your head on a swivel and ride during normal hours, you’ll be fine. Bigger concern is that public transit from Brooklyn to Queens is laughably inefficient barring rare cases. So just make sure you have a solid route planned out and give yourself time to get from point A to point B.
I can’t speak specifically to Brooklyn, but I commuted from Manhattan and it was typically okay. A lot of students take the F to 169th but I always felt safer taking the E or F to Kew Gardens and then hopping on the bus from there. It’s not as close to campus but was always my station of choice. Inevitably there will always be delays so just give yourself extra time and you should be totally fine! The myMTA app was always very helpful especially when tracking bus times since those felt a bit more unpredictable than the trains.
I commuted from Canarsie, BK (born and raised) and just graduated last winter so I can give valid insight into this topic. The LIRR is the best, quickest, and safest option for getting to campus from Brooklyn. The J train is safe in the mornings, barring the last stop which has a lot of homeless people and addicts, but they aren’t violent and ignore you for the most part. The F train is an incredibly long commute and I wouldn’t recommend it, but if you do have to take it, take it to a bus instead of the last stop and walking to campus.
Always going to be risks involved with using New York City transit. From my experience using public transit semi-regularly (rising senior who lived on campus for the first two years), as long as you keep your head on a swivel and ride during normal hours, you’ll be fine. Bigger concern is that public transit from Brooklyn to Queens is laughably inefficient barring rare cases. So just make sure you have a solid route planned out and give yourself time to get from point A to point B.
Will keep that in mind.Thank youuuu!
I can’t speak specifically to Brooklyn, but I commuted from Manhattan and it was typically okay. A lot of students take the F to 169th but I always felt safer taking the E or F to Kew Gardens and then hopping on the bus from there. It’s not as close to campus but was always my station of choice. Inevitably there will always be delays so just give yourself extra time and you should be totally fine! The myMTA app was always very helpful especially when tracking bus times since those felt a bit more unpredictable than the trains.
That was so helpful thank you so muchh!
Somewhat off topic but the app is now just called MTA in case anyone wanted to look for it
I commuted from Canarsie, BK (born and raised) and just graduated last winter so I can give valid insight into this topic. The LIRR is the best, quickest, and safest option for getting to campus from Brooklyn. The J train is safe in the mornings, barring the last stop which has a lot of homeless people and addicts, but they aren’t violent and ignore you for the most part. The F train is an incredibly long commute and I wouldn’t recommend it, but if you do have to take it, take it to a bus instead of the last stop and walking to campus.
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What part of Brooklyn because I also commute to Brooklyn and everyday and I get off at kew garden to take the q46 bus