Trying to put some info together on the NYC subway. Just wondering if you are spending a day in NYC and using the subway would it be best to get a Fun Day Access Pass for $7.00 and if so is the best place to purchase in one of the subway terminals or are there locations on the street to buy. Thanks for your help

If you will be using it several times during the day then the $7.00 pass will probably save you some money.

You can buy it at any subway station.

Buy a day pass with your credit card in one of the stations. I think almost all stations have them - the major stops, definitely. Sometimes those machines don't feel like using your credit card, so have some cash handy.

The Fun Pass is a good deal; however, if you are traveling with anyone else (you didn't say you were but just in case) it might make more sense to purchase a $10 metro card, which would give you a total of six rides (they throw in a bonus ride) that could be shared with others in your party. It really depends on how much you'll be riding.

We were recently in NYC and I purchased a $10. metro card that we both shared.

It worked out well for the few days we were there.

Another way to save, is to travel by subway in 1 direction and bus in the other. The 'transfer' is free if it's within a certain amount of time (maybe 2 hrs, i'm not sure).

Sorry - transfers don't work in opposite directions. The purpose is to enable people to reach areas not served by subways without paying a second fare on the bus. So the transfers are for perpendicular routes - not those in the opposite diretion.

(For instance if you take the subway north to 79th St on the west side you can change to the 79th St crosstown bus to get to the east side (since the subway has no line going crosstown anywhere near there.)

I think I am going to dispute the fact that transfers don't work in the opposite direction. I would swear that i just took a 6 train uptown and then caught the M2,M3 whatever back downtown an hour later. I think it showed 1 Transfer on the bus.

NYtraveler that's incorrect- transfers work in any and all directions - and MFNYC is correct - the transfer is good for 2 hours after the first use.

Transfers don't work on the subway going the opposite direction.

In other words, if you ride the 6 train uptown, you can't transfer for free to the 6 downtown.

All subway/bus transfers work, in my very extensive experience.

I have transfered from trains to buses that are substanitally headed in the opposite direction.


If you are on the uptown 6 Lex local train you could "transfer" downtown at the express stops. There are few if any local stops where you can do that.

Aduchamp - that's not a transfer. That's simply changing directions without leaving the subway. You can do that at express stops for no charge - and always could. Youcan ride the subways for weeks for one fare if you never go past the gates.

A transfer means leaving the subway, going into the street and using another form of transit - either a different subway or bus. Once you leave the subway you can use a transfer to go in another direction - but not exactly the opposite of what you just did. (And there would be no reason to - since you don;t have to leave the staion to do that.)

We just always purchase the $10 cards because we swipe and hand it to the person behind us.

You get six rides for the price of five.

A single transfer is allowed from bus to bus, from bus to subway, from subway to bus. However, I believe that because there are free transfer points within the subway, one cannot exit the subway and re-enter it without paying again. Opposite direction transfers are possible as long as the line is different (one could ride up Broadway by bus and come back down by subway).

One thing that may not have been mentioned: if two persons are using one card, the card is to be swiped only once at the transfer point.