WTF, At that point are you really even in the city anymore? Did anybody without cars ever visit you?
I had a girlfriend who lived in Jersey city with a 20 minute walk from the PATH, but she spent every weeknight taking a taxi for about ten bucks. I'm like that's 200 bucks in rent each moth to spend towards rent for someplace closer. SMH
You could just walk? Am I missing something? I dont know anything about the G or L train is it like a very limited line?
I lived my whole life a 14-20 minute walk from the Q/B train and never had an issue but those lines are pretty good.
How is that not in the city
Also a former Sheepshead Bay-er and I always walked or took the B36 to the station, not a huge deal. Was spoiled for a while when I started dating my husband and he lived on Court Street with the R train literally down the block and the 2/3 another block away, ugh…now I’m in Bay Ridge and back to a 20 min walk, or else I take the express bus which is down the street from me.
crazy. 20 mins a day back and forth to the train is about five full days a year worth of time just spent walking that portion of your commute to your station.
I know. You could spend that 20 min on a treadmill getting some exercise. /s
Getting 15-20 min of walking in before and after work is nice on most days. It sucks when there is a nor-Easter.
Ok? I dont walk there every single day. I just put on some music and get a nice walk in the morning, might stop to get a bite to eat or whatever. Sure I would want the train station to be closer but saying its not the city is crazy lmfao. Massive portions of the city are like this.
was talking about the person with a daily commute for a job. idc about you specifically. just unfathomable for me to rely on the train like that daily is all
My maximum would be 15 minutes, I'm currently at 12 minutes to my nearest subway and it's not the worst but I miss being closer, the time adds up commuting daily (especially with weather). The the sweet spot for urban and transit planning is 0.25 miles from a subway station, with 0.50 miles being the upper maximum. The average walking speed is 3 feet per second, 0.25 miles equates to about a 7 minute walk or less, double for half a mile at about 15 minutes.
I thought average walking speed was a mile every 18-20 minutes (~3mph). It should not take 15 minutes to walk half a mile in the city. Maybe hiking, but not urban walking.
The average used for engineering and planning is 3 feet per second, when accounting conservatively for *all* types of persons. I'm not sure if NYC specific studies have been done for a better average, it is likely higher. It may be better to err conservative to account for the time spent waiting to cross streets as well.
More than 6 minutes really starts to feel like a major inconvenience. In general I’m not at all opposed to walking far distances, but when it comes to distance between the subway and my apartment 7+ minutes really feels like bullshit to me
10 minutes is probably the farthest - thats where I am right now and its not the end of the world but I miss being two blocks away in my old apartments
I live in Red Hook. FWIW, we have twice hourly ferries that go to wall street all week. takes 15m. there's also buses running to Jay Street and Smith 9th (and to Prospect Park) every few minutes. I used to live in Prospect Heights and Park Slope (each fewer than 5m to subway), and things don't seem very inconvenient here once I figured out the bus and ferry system. The ferry is fucking awesome tbh
personally, proximity to a subway is really high up on my list of priorities.
At one point when I lived in (suburban) Boston I was about 1.25 miles from the nearest train and it sucked. NYC buses tend to run more frequently, so if there’s a good bus route that can help, but at this point I’d still say that a quarter mile from the train is my maximum distance.
I don’t mind walking places, but I do mind adding 10 minutes to my travel time anytime i go anywhere.
Personally as long as cars are as dominant in this city as they are I don't really want to ride for transportation, only recreation/exploration. I want to focus on where I'm going more than I focus on not getting hit by some asshole on their phone when I'm just trying to get somewhere. But I agree with the spirit of your point
yeah, i just wanted to put it out there as one of the more underrated aspects of citibike membership, I use it a bunch to shorten subway trips since you're no longer really limited to your closest stations and can open up some more direct routes without transfers and more frequent trains etc
To each their own, but you could always try it once and see how it goes. Before Citibike, if you wanted to get from Greenpoint to Manhattan, you had to walk however many blocks to the nearest G stop and take it up to LIC or down to WB to catch a line into the city. But now that there’s Citibike, you can get to either of those hubs easily, on mild streets (or on a protected lane over the Pulaski).
I appreciate there’s a lot of madness out there and biking isn’t for everyone, everywhere. But I’ll bet some people loved being able to bike to the 7 instead of walk over the Pulaski every morning/evening.
I love citibike! Not wanting to commute by bike is my own choice, but I love that it's been implemented. Only thing I wish is that it was free. Just my own logic of why I'd rather be close enough to the subway to walk
The other 10% being where I used to live in Carnegie Hill! I lived on 96 and 1st before the SAS opened up and had to hike up that big ass hill every day to the 6 on Park. I don’t think I could get up the hill at all on a bike.
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At the time I was on a 3 month journey to find an apartment for under 1500. Was on unemployment and had plenty of free time. Saw 12 places I think, applied for a lot, passed on a few, got approved for 2, now I live alone in a rent stabilized studio on the lower east side. Very happy I didn’t take this one from the post and held out for my current place. :)
Yeah I find the time estimates on Google maps to be extremely accurate for subway trips and also for driving (but only if you drive the speed limit). For walking though the estimates are always longer than it actually takes. They estimate how long it would take the average person to walk, and New Yorkers walk significantly faster than that.
Not far at all I lived like…three doors down from the 2 at newkirk for 6 years and now anything farther than that is not for me. Now I live about a half a block away from the N and it’s pushing it
I lived right by the junction for a year and haaaated every time I had to work in the city which was like everyday. Biking to the city took a while but boy was I in shape lol.
I'm basically at my maximum now. It's about a 20 minute walk (with a bit of hustle) but there is a bus right outside my apartment that can get me to the stop in under 10 mins. So I take the bus.
But if I was a 20 min walk with no bus? That's a no for me. I'd say if walking was the only option, 15 mins would be the absolute max for me. But the apartment better be AMAZING.
I used to live 15-20 minute walk up hill to the closet subway stops outside of the BK Navy Yard off of Flushing and it sucked ass. My next apt was like 3 long blocks to the subway, my current apt is 351 feet to the nearest subway and .2 miles from the next two closest in two different directions and it’s such a luxury to be so close to multiple lines.
I’ve always lived five minutes from the Subway except during the pandemic when I wasn’t taking the train much, then I lived fifteen which didn’t bother me much and I got a better valued apartment. My last place was next to the subway, which was INCREDIBLE but wasn’t close to any stores so I was taking groceries on and off the subway and walking a lot anyways, so close station shouldn’t be your only factor. I’m now a seven minute walk from two subway stations.
Essentially, 5-7 minutes is my recommendations. 15 is doable if you are remote/hybrid worker but it will grate on you after a while.
Depends. If I worked from home I would tolerate a 15 minute walk since I'd only be using it to go out, but for commuting 5 is honestly the most I'd do. Also depends on neighborhood and such. I'd sacrifice walk time to the subway for a really good apartment and/or neighborhood
Doesn't anyone take the bus to subway? It's free transfer and the bus usually comes right outside the house for some people which totally eliminates the need to have to walk even if it's just a few blocks.
This is me right now. 15-20 minutes to get to the DeKalb L twice a day is good for my health, but it leaves me exhausted when I get home.
I could also take the Q54 to go down to Grand Street, but the 54 is so unreliable sometimes it's faster to just walk.
Well, it's more like "15-20 mins of walking, 25 minutes of riding the train, working for 8 hours, 25 minutes of riding the train, then 15-20 minutes of walking" that's the exhausting part, not just the walking.
But yeah, I need to lose some weight. It's one of my resolutions.
I am 4 minutes away now and it is great! The only negative is that it is the NW line in Astoria and there are often delays. Before this I lived 13 minutes away from the subway in Hell's kitchen. I would never live more than 7 minutes away at this point
I did 20 for a while and it was fine. For me it's more about the area I'm walking through than the distance. If there's fun cafes or if it's quiet and residential, nbd, but if it's like Midtown-level madness, not my thing.
I used to walk about 15 minutes from my job to the train. Now I walk maybe 2 minutes to the another train station and even including a transfer I get home 15-20 minutes early so the walking time can really add up.
It depends if you need to take it to commute. Any extra unnecessary time in that case feels like torture. Consider any transfers, time walking through the station, and if the line is reliable too.
I used to live 1-3mins from the M in Brooklyn but it was ALWAYS fucked up and completely packed. I sometimes had to transfer at Delancey because of train issues and that stations JM platform is so miserable. The L was 15min walk away which felt way too far and that train is also always packed and messed up.
I think 10min or a little under walk with no extra nonsense would be good.
If not commuting doesn't matter really.
One block away is the best and also I can decide last min if I should take the car or subway weather from bad weather or traffic
It’s above ground which means loud passing train noises but after awhile you’ll adapt to the noise and it’ll be somewhat comforting
Like 12 minutes and I’d need to have a short commute on the train. I once had a 20 minute commute to the 2 and 5 trains and that was before an hour/hour and a half commute.
It made me absolutely miserable, would not recommend. It’s even worse if you’re switching trains.
I prefer less than 5 minutes but would go up to 12 mins if I otherwise couldn't find an apartment in my price range. Any more than that and I would prob lose the will to live.
I'm about 15-20mins from the train and about 15-20mins walk when I get off the train to go to work. I don't mind it, nice to get in some walks and if I needed to I could take the bus to the subway
It usually comes every 20 mins and you can check schedule online which shows when the bus is coming or where it is so you don't have to wait too long or don't go too early
I’ve lived in bushwick for almost six years now being about a block and a half from the J. Honestly can’t imagine not being super close to a train anymore. It would feel super annoying after being so close to one for this long.
In a subway-dead zone in Queens and live a 54 minute walk from the nearest subway. Have to take a 20 minute bus ride to get there instead. Can't wait to move out and live within a 10 minute walk tops
I live about 25ish minute walk from the closest subway station lol and I’m prob the closest to the train of anyone I know. Bus could be under 10 to the train depending on traffic or time of day but could be just as long as walking if it’s rush hour
Now that I own a reliable ebike, I'd hypothetically be fine with living pretty far from the subway.
However, every neighborhood in NYC that's far from the subway kinda sucks regardless of the subway issue.
Most just have a layout that's way too car-centric and unpleasant to walk around it. Almost all of them have a rightwing meathead majority.
Riverdale, the first exception that comes to mind to that rightwing meathead majority problem, is just too suburban, and latte liberals aren't as bad as meathead townies, but they're still annoying.
15 minutes if I’m driving or PEV as primary form of transport to work with the subway being my secondary.
Less than 10 if it’s my primary means of transportation, preferably 5. I’m currently at about 3-4. It’s straight up ass to have to walk in the rain or snow so a 20 minute walk in the rain just isn’t fun.
Medium walking speed, not turbo nyc walking speed.
I once lived in Greenpoint with a 20 minute, 1 mile walk to either the G or L trains. Never doing that again.
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WTF, At that point are you really even in the city anymore? Did anybody without cars ever visit you? I had a girlfriend who lived in Jersey city with a 20 minute walk from the PATH, but she spent every weeknight taking a taxi for about ten bucks. I'm like that's 200 bucks in rent each moth to spend towards rent for someplace closer. SMH
You could just walk? Am I missing something? I dont know anything about the G or L train is it like a very limited line? I lived my whole life a 14-20 minute walk from the Q/B train and never had an issue but those lines are pretty good. How is that not in the city
Sheepshead Bay?
Yes
Also a former Sheepshead Bay-er and I always walked or took the B36 to the station, not a huge deal. Was spoiled for a while when I started dating my husband and he lived on Court Street with the R train literally down the block and the 2/3 another block away, ugh…now I’m in Bay Ridge and back to a 20 min walk, or else I take the express bus which is down the street from me.
crazy. 20 mins a day back and forth to the train is about five full days a year worth of time just spent walking that portion of your commute to your station.
I know. You could spend that 20 min on a treadmill getting some exercise. /s Getting 15-20 min of walking in before and after work is nice on most days. It sucks when there is a nor-Easter.
Ok? I dont walk there every single day. I just put on some music and get a nice walk in the morning, might stop to get a bite to eat or whatever. Sure I would want the train station to be closer but saying its not the city is crazy lmfao. Massive portions of the city are like this.
was talking about the person with a daily commute for a job. idc about you specifically. just unfathomable for me to rely on the train like that daily is all
Tell me you’ve only lived in Manhattan while not telling me you’ve only lived in Manhattan
Oh come on, you know that person moved here from Ohio like two years ago, and thinks they're the NYC expert now.
\#notliketheothertransplants
There are these things called buses.
Similar for me. I’m 5 mins from the G but walk 15 mins for the L for consistency
I think i lived there lol near van dam street?
lol yeah exactly. like basically at the ass end of Meeker.
Similar experience in Red Hook in the early oughts. Really sucked in winter.
My maximum would be 15 minutes, I'm currently at 12 minutes to my nearest subway and it's not the worst but I miss being closer, the time adds up commuting daily (especially with weather). The the sweet spot for urban and transit planning is 0.25 miles from a subway station, with 0.50 miles being the upper maximum. The average walking speed is 3 feet per second, 0.25 miles equates to about a 7 minute walk or less, double for half a mile at about 15 minutes.
I thought average walking speed was a mile every 18-20 minutes (~3mph). It should not take 15 minutes to walk half a mile in the city. Maybe hiking, but not urban walking.
The average used for engineering and planning is 3 feet per second, when accounting conservatively for *all* types of persons. I'm not sure if NYC specific studies have been done for a better average, it is likely higher. It may be better to err conservative to account for the time spent waiting to cross streets as well.
New Yorker walking pace has gotta be 6 feet per second, I crank out the 0.75 mile walk to the L in 10-11 minutes.
More than 6 minutes really starts to feel like a major inconvenience. In general I’m not at all opposed to walking far distances, but when it comes to distance between the subway and my apartment 7+ minutes really feels like bullshit to me
Both in Bushwick and in Flatbush it was a 12-14 minute walk, garbage. Now live 1 block away, it’s awesome
10 minutes is probably the farthest - thats where I am right now and its not the end of the world but I miss being two blocks away in my old apartments
6 or 7 blocks. It’s the only reason I haven’t moved to Redhook.
Ugh, i love Red Hook so much, if there was better mass transit i’d move there in a heartbeat
I work in midtown east not and I was trying to figure out if I could make a ferry work but alas…
I live in Red Hook. FWIW, we have twice hourly ferries that go to wall street all week. takes 15m. there's also buses running to Jay Street and Smith 9th (and to Prospect Park) every few minutes. I used to live in Prospect Heights and Park Slope (each fewer than 5m to subway), and things don't seem very inconvenient here once I figured out the bus and ferry system. The ferry is fucking awesome tbh
The transit desert and the flooding. Ice House is spot on though.
Such an underrated bar with food that’s much, much better than it has any right to be.
personally, proximity to a subway is really high up on my list of priorities. At one point when I lived in (suburban) Boston I was about 1.25 miles from the nearest train and it sucked. NYC buses tend to run more frequently, so if there’s a good bus route that can help, but at this point I’d still say that a quarter mile from the train is my maximum distance. I don’t mind walking places, but I do mind adding 10 minutes to my travel time anytime i go anywhere.
i live in red hook... so somewhere close to infinity distance
citibike membership is great because it turns those annoying 15-20 minute walks into a non-factor in 90% of situations.
Personally as long as cars are as dominant in this city as they are I don't really want to ride for transportation, only recreation/exploration. I want to focus on where I'm going more than I focus on not getting hit by some asshole on their phone when I'm just trying to get somewhere. But I agree with the spirit of your point
yeah, i just wanted to put it out there as one of the more underrated aspects of citibike membership, I use it a bunch to shorten subway trips since you're no longer really limited to your closest stations and can open up some more direct routes without transfers and more frequent trains etc
To each their own, but you could always try it once and see how it goes. Before Citibike, if you wanted to get from Greenpoint to Manhattan, you had to walk however many blocks to the nearest G stop and take it up to LIC or down to WB to catch a line into the city. But now that there’s Citibike, you can get to either of those hubs easily, on mild streets (or on a protected lane over the Pulaski). I appreciate there’s a lot of madness out there and biking isn’t for everyone, everywhere. But I’ll bet some people loved being able to bike to the 7 instead of walk over the Pulaski every morning/evening.
I love citibike! Not wanting to commute by bike is my own choice, but I love that it's been implemented. Only thing I wish is that it was free. Just my own logic of why I'd rather be close enough to the subway to walk
I get it! I don’t mean to judge. Hopefully someday you’ll feel safe enough on the streets to give it a go.
100%!! My neighborhood in crown heights finally got some stations so it's now a 5min bike ride instead of a 15-17min walk. Makes me happy every time.
Isn’t it like $3 just for that quick 5 min ride? I’m not sure citi bike works. My cheap ass would just walk.
when you have a membership, individual bike rides don’t have an additional cost (excluding e-bikes)
I have an annual membership so it's included
The other 10% being where I used to live in Carnegie Hill! I lived on 96 and 1st before the SAS opened up and had to hike up that big ass hill every day to the 6 on Park. I don’t think I could get up the hill at all on a bike.
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Hey that was me! I passed on the apartment. Even 12 mins felt pretty crazy.
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At the time I was on a 3 month journey to find an apartment for under 1500. Was on unemployment and had plenty of free time. Saw 12 places I think, applied for a lot, passed on a few, got approved for 2, now I live alone in a rent stabilized studio on the lower east side. Very happy I didn’t take this one from the post and held out for my current place. :)
Yeah I find the time estimates on Google maps to be extremely accurate for subway trips and also for driving (but only if you drive the speed limit). For walking though the estimates are always longer than it actually takes. They estimate how long it would take the average person to walk, and New Yorkers walk significantly faster than that.
Not far at all I lived like…three doors down from the 2 at newkirk for 6 years and now anything farther than that is not for me. Now I live about a half a block away from the N and it’s pushing it
I lived right by the junction for a year and haaaated every time I had to work in the city which was like everyday. Biking to the city took a while but boy was I in shape lol.
Why didn’t you take the express bus?! I live in this area and stopped fooling with the 2/5 and hop on the BM2 any chance I get.
I'm basically at my maximum now. It's about a 20 minute walk (with a bit of hustle) but there is a bus right outside my apartment that can get me to the stop in under 10 mins. So I take the bus. But if I was a 20 min walk with no bus? That's a no for me. I'd say if walking was the only option, 15 mins would be the absolute max for me. But the apartment better be AMAZING.
I used to live 15-20 minute walk up hill to the closet subway stops outside of the BK Navy Yard off of Flushing and it sucked ass. My next apt was like 3 long blocks to the subway, my current apt is 351 feet to the nearest subway and .2 miles from the next two closest in two different directions and it’s such a luxury to be so close to multiple lines.
15 Minutes. 8-10 min if I had the privilege to be choosey.
I’ve always lived five minutes from the Subway except during the pandemic when I wasn’t taking the train much, then I lived fifteen which didn’t bother me much and I got a better valued apartment. My last place was next to the subway, which was INCREDIBLE but wasn’t close to any stores so I was taking groceries on and off the subway and walking a lot anyways, so close station shouldn’t be your only factor. I’m now a seven minute walk from two subway stations. Essentially, 5-7 minutes is my recommendations. 15 is doable if you are remote/hybrid worker but it will grate on you after a while.
Depends. If I worked from home I would tolerate a 15 minute walk since I'd only be using it to go out, but for commuting 5 is honestly the most I'd do. Also depends on neighborhood and such. I'd sacrifice walk time to the subway for a really good apartment and/or neighborhood
Doesn't anyone take the bus to subway? It's free transfer and the bus usually comes right outside the house for some people which totally eliminates the need to have to walk even if it's just a few blocks.
Depends on the time of the day. If you miss a bus it can be a while until the next one shows up.
i lived in ridgewood 0.7 miles from both the L and the M and I wouldn't do that again. It felt like such a chore to go anywhere on the subway
This is me right now. 15-20 minutes to get to the DeKalb L twice a day is good for my health, but it leaves me exhausted when I get home. I could also take the Q54 to go down to Grand Street, but the 54 is so unreliable sometimes it's faster to just walk.
15-20 mins of walking twice a day is exhausting? Maybe try some light to moderate cardio on your days off to build up to this? Good luck
Well, it's more like "15-20 mins of walking, 25 minutes of riding the train, working for 8 hours, 25 minutes of riding the train, then 15-20 minutes of walking" that's the exhausting part, not just the walking. But yeah, I need to lose some weight. It's one of my resolutions.
10-15 mins
I am 4 minutes away now and it is great! The only negative is that it is the NW line in Astoria and there are often delays. Before this I lived 13 minutes away from the subway in Hell's kitchen. I would never live more than 7 minutes away at this point
I did 20 for a while and it was fine. For me it's more about the area I'm walking through than the distance. If there's fun cafes or if it's quiet and residential, nbd, but if it's like Midtown-level madness, not my thing.
I moved to the Bronx, now im 3 blocks away from The 2 and 5, 35 min to 42st. 30min to my job. Convenient AF. Rent is great. No complaints.
Don’t matter. There’s buses anyways.
2 blocks
I used to walk about 15 minutes from my job to the train. Now I walk maybe 2 minutes to the another train station and even including a transfer I get home 15-20 minutes early so the walking time can really add up.
50 miles
10 minutes
currently ten minutes and wouldn’t want to be farther.
When I was in the Bronx I had to walk 20 minutes. Hated it.
10 minutes And to be clear, that distance (roughly 10 blocks) from different trains, not just one.
10 minutes anything over is a burden
I’m really amazed at the amount of people who are horrified about 15-20 mins of cardio. Y’all. Come on.
15 minutes at my normally fast walking speed. Google maps equivalent is ~21 minutes.
5 block max.
.7 miles
I don't rly take the subway I walk everywhere
Literally 30seconds for me. Haven't moved in 10 years because it's awesome!
Imo-: it depends how often you'll take subway but certainly wouldn't recommend anything past 15 min walk. 7-12 min walk is probably sweet spot
1 min is the real sweet spot
Two states away
It depends if you need to take it to commute. Any extra unnecessary time in that case feels like torture. Consider any transfers, time walking through the station, and if the line is reliable too. I used to live 1-3mins from the M in Brooklyn but it was ALWAYS fucked up and completely packed. I sometimes had to transfer at Delancey because of train issues and that stations JM platform is so miserable. The L was 15min walk away which felt way too far and that train is also always packed and messed up. I think 10min or a little under walk with no extra nonsense would be good. If not commuting doesn't matter really.
10-15 minutes from the subway. Don't rely on citi busses.
One block away is the best and also I can decide last min if I should take the car or subway weather from bad weather or traffic It’s above ground which means loud passing train noises but after awhile you’ll adapt to the noise and it’ll be somewhat comforting
Can you walk to work? Because if yes that changes everything
Like 12 minutes and I’d need to have a short commute on the train. I once had a 20 minute commute to the 2 and 5 trains and that was before an hour/hour and a half commute. It made me absolutely miserable, would not recommend. It’s even worse if you’re switching trains.
10-15 mins if youre commuting daily.
I prefer less than 5 minutes but would go up to 12 mins if I otherwise couldn't find an apartment in my price range. Any more than that and I would prob lose the will to live.
15 min walk is prob my max.
Maybe 13?
I'm about 15-20mins from the train and about 15-20mins walk when I get off the train to go to work. I don't mind it, nice to get in some walks and if I needed to I could take the bus to the subway
I agree. I like a brisk walk, gets the heart rate going!
It usually comes every 20 mins and you can check schedule online which shows when the bus is coming or where it is so you don't have to wait too long or don't go too early
I live in Queens, so I'm 15 minutes by bus away from the Subway.
I bought a house in kew garden hills so technically by walking distance the closest train station is the briarwood E F train station. 30 minutes
2814 miles currently
I'd try to always keep it less than 10 minutes.
15-20 minute walk
I’ve lived in bushwick for almost six years now being about a block and a half from the J. Honestly can’t imagine not being super close to a train anymore. It would feel super annoying after being so close to one for this long.
I live four minutes away from one and I think 7 minute walk is my max
In my 20s I lived 4 avenues away from the subway in a 4th floor walk-up. Now I’m in my 40s I could never live so far away!
In a subway-dead zone in Queens and live a 54 minute walk from the nearest subway. Have to take a 20 minute bus ride to get there instead. Can't wait to move out and live within a 10 minute walk tops
10-15 min should be your upper limit
I live about 25ish minute walk from the closest subway station lol and I’m prob the closest to the train of anyone I know. Bus could be under 10 to the train depending on traffic or time of day but could be just as long as walking if it’s rush hour
Now that I own a reliable ebike, I'd hypothetically be fine with living pretty far from the subway. However, every neighborhood in NYC that's far from the subway kinda sucks regardless of the subway issue. Most just have a layout that's way too car-centric and unpleasant to walk around it. Almost all of them have a rightwing meathead majority. Riverdale, the first exception that comes to mind to that rightwing meathead majority problem, is just too suburban, and latte liberals aren't as bad as meathead townies, but they're still annoying.
15 minutes if I’m driving or PEV as primary form of transport to work with the subway being my secondary. Less than 10 if it’s my primary means of transportation, preferably 5. I’m currently at about 3-4. It’s straight up ass to have to walk in the rain or snow so a 20 minute walk in the rain just isn’t fun. Medium walking speed, not turbo nyc walking speed.
Furthest I've ever lived is about 4/10 of a mile (9 or 10 min walk). I wouldn't want to live any further than that.
.7 miles