Metro or cab from Delancey St to Penn Station?
 

Hi fellow Fodorites, need to get from Holiday Inn Lower East Side in Delancey Street to Penn Station for an 0700 departure, so should arrive by 0630 latest. Metro or cab? Thanks in anticipation :-)

I would take a taxi....should not be traffic at 6am.

Taxi. I agree there won't be traffic at 6am and it's just less of a hassle to cab it.

Taxi. No contest. But don't leave after 6am, just to be safe.

Please note that in NYC, it is called either the subway or train. It is simply a matter of custom and usage. And yes the agency that runs the subways and buses, did make it more confusing by calling the method of payment the Metrocard.

And yes, a taxi is the easiest method. You should not have trouble getting a cab as some will probably be coming back to Manhattan over the Williamsburg Bridge which leads to Delancey.

If you don't have a ton of luggage just go 1 or 2 blocks outside the Holiday Inn door and take the M or F, then get off at 34th St. 1 block to Penn Station.
Or take a cab. Might save 10 minutes.

PLEASE - there is no Metro in NYC. We have a subway. Or a "train". If you ask for Metro people are likely to send you to one of a chain of delis.

And that early with luggage I wold just hop in a cab.

Sorry to offend nytraveler, I do usually refer to your train system as the subway but as IMDonehere says, the card for travel is named Metro, and I was reading about that prior to posting, hence my poor befuddled brain late at night after a long day at work.

Appreciate all the info and will probably go with the cab option for ease with baggage.

Thanks all, got the taxi, ordered via reception at Holiday Inn LES, arrived in two minutes and driver excellent!

<<, I do usually refer to your train system as the subway but as IMDonehere says, the card for travel is named Metro>>

It's not "Metro," it's called "MetroCard."

Look: no one calls the London Underground the "Oyster."

That's true BigRuss, but its a pretty silly name for a system that ISN'T referred to as the metro in NY, but is in many other cities. Oyster is just an unrelated and therefore not confusing name. "Metrocard" just causes confusion; they would have been better off calling it "Lobstercard".

MDonehere on Aug 27, 14 at 9:01am

Please note that in NYC, it is called either the subway or train. It is simply a matter of custom and usage. And yes the agency that runs the subways and buses, did make it more confusing by calling the method of payment the Metrocard.

Not that I expect people to actually read what I wrote before criticizing but.....that would ruin certain people's day.

Metro comes from Metropolitan Transit Authority, the entity charged with running Metro-North, LIRR, the subway and the NYC bus system, and more.

The term "subway" is iconic, like the El and the Tube.

Metrocard is what happens when you put marketing people in charge. The next they will do is start referring to the various subway lines by color.
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Yeah, Big Russ but the Metrocard can not be used in the LIRR, Metro North, or the tolls at the bridges and tunnels. But it did allow for the first time the ability to transfer to or from almost any subway to any bus and vice versa, without incurring an additional cost on very line.

I would take a taxi.

The OP already DID take a taxi, the rest is just Fodors banter :-)

I can't understand why some people are so unforgiving when people make mistakes with names of things on these forums. Tourists make a lot of assumptions and mistakes - I assist travellers to Sydney nearly daily as I live in the city. I don't berate them for not doing their homework.

Let's all be nice eh?

IMHO pointing out mistakes here helps prevent people make what can be confusing mistakes during their trip.

Esp in NYC people tend to use the wrong name for subways (can be "train" but NOT metro) for Greenwich Village (can also be "the village" but not" Greenwich", which is a very upscale town in nearby CT) and trying to identify subway lines by color (which locals do not use - one must identify the subway line by letter or number - or if you know - as "Broadway local" or similar).

This is not being unforgiving - it is being helpful - NOT critical.

Letting people go on making confusing errors is NOT nice!

The Metropolitan Transit (MTA) authority was established as a semi-autonomous governmental agency so elected officials could separate themselves from the lousy service.

They truly helped commuters when you could transfer from most buses to trains and vice versa without incurring an additional fare.

If they had called what is now called a Metrocard something else like a TransitCard, or NYCard or TravelCard, it would have been more in keeping with the way NY'ers think and talk about the subways.

But whatever you do, so not use colors to describe the subway lines. That is because multiple lines use the same color but the trains only have some stations in common.

I agree nytraveler, it's great to be helped out, but it's all in the way it's said. Pointing out mistakes nicely is key.