In our day and age, we depend a lot on the internet for directions. And while mapquest, mapblast, and google maps do the job for driving, they sometimes leave us city dwellers a little lost. I have looked many times online for a map that will show the city streets (inlcuding brooklyn please!) along with bus and subway lines. The MTA bus maps are almost right, but still leave some small streets unlabeld. Plus, they are too big to print out on standard paper.
Enter hopspot.com:
This site gives you walking, subway, bus, and any combination thereof directions for anywhere in the city. It still has the trouble that mapquest has of being a bit too based in data and not in the real world.
Just as on mapquest you might find a ramp to a service road that takes about 2 seconds to drive over labeled as “route 24AA,” leading you to miss your entrance while desperately looking for street signs, hopspot tells you that from 18th st, you should to do things like take the local at 23rd st when you could get there faster by taking the express at union square. The site doesn’t understand express, and probably thinks of Union Square as 14th, and forgets the entrances on 17th. But I digress.
It does give you a quick idea on which subways are near your destination, and how to use the ever-mysterious (and anxiety producing at times) bus system. Give it a try. Go from Red Hook to Astoria-I dare you.
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thanks for the new link--always good to have better directions (especially bus! in nyc). this sounds helpful. maybe we should do some sort of consumer test and do a race using directions from all of the different sites you listed. we could film all of the races and then submit the information to be used as an footage for the winning links new commercial, or edit all of the material into a documentary that we will submit to the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival.
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