These are travel tips from are recent trip to New york, As this post may hang around in cyber space for some time this was in May of 2007.<\/p>\n
First arriving at ether of the major airports, you can take a light rail way to the New Jersey rail \/ Subway network.<\/p>\n
If you are going to be there for a few days a subway pass is really useful, we brought a 7 day unlimited trip ticket. It allowed us to use the subway and buses cost 24 $, only one major draw back we could not get the machine in the pen station subway to accept are UK cards debit or credit ?? So could only get the cards with cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
These are travel tips from are recent trip to New york, As this post may hang around in cyber space for some time this was in May of 2007. First arriving at ether of the major airports, you can take a light rail way to the New Jersey rail \/ Subway network. 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