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Before the advent of MetroCards, riders had to purchase tokens to ride the buses or trains.
When I was born, in 1972, it cost 35 cents to ride the trains and buses one way.
When I started traveling on my own as a teen in the 1980's, it cost 75 cents.
By the time I learned to drive and moved to NJ, the fare in NY had doubled to $1.50
Today, it'll cost you $2.75. That's almost 8 times the fare in 1972
Growing up in Brooklyn, there were no need for cars. Most working class and poor residents did not own cars.
Even today, more than half of NYC's population, including the wealthy, opt for public transportation.
*Hard to find parking
*Expensive parking rates
*Heavy traffic
*Air/Noise pollution
*Any and everywhere one must go is in short walking distance to a train station and/or a bus stop.
Smith & 9th Streets train station services Red Hook Projects in South Brooklyn. It is the highest elevated train station in all of NYC's 5 boroughs.