While in NYC use public transportation: buses, subways, and taxis.
We have an excellent public transportation system which is usually faster than driving.
Advice will be provided on choosing how to get around the City from point A to point B.

Some Perspectives on Driving in NYC:

Driving in New York City is not for the faint-of-heart. (The density of traffic in Manhattan is
the highest in the USA.)

Since there is little time for you to learn the advisability of being aggressive when faced with a
taxi driver who seems to be totally unaware of your existence, you are advised to drive in a totally
passive mode...if you must drive.

This also means that even if other cars beep at you for not going through a barely red light, you
should stick to your guns and stop.

Driving uptown or downtown (north or south) can be relatively efficient. Driving crosstown (east and
west) in midtown can take one half-hour or more, even though the distance river-to-river is at most
two miles.

After learning to safely negotiate through the City's traffic, you must learn to park. There will be
free parking at CCNY, but if you drive to midtown during the week, you will discover that parking there
can often cost over $20 for the first half hour. Where there are meters which allow parking during
the period that you want to park, you will need to spend at least six quarters (and only quarters) per
hour. You must also become a master at reading signs. "No parking" . "no standing" is a relatively
simple example. You must also decide instantly the meaning of collections of signs tell you: for example
"No Standing TuThSat 8:00-11:00; No Parking, 8 - 5 except trucks; MetroMeter All Other Times"

Errors in reading signs can result in a parking ticket (minimum $65 south of 125th St.) or towing costs (minimum $225).