Probably because a lot of people can't read Maps well and want to help people. Don't forget: He's dealing with People who often don't know where China or Russia is on the Map
It’s actually important to know what uptown and downtown is to locate what platform is your direction. You might know a line but you might not know the platforms.
Sometimes it’s easy to mess up which direction the train is going! Lol I’m a Long Islander and I end up on the right train going the wrong way very often,
It's only easy if you're familiar with stuff that isn't necessarily relevant to the system itself. In other transit systems around the world you can rely on a schematic map alone to get somewhere. In NYC you need to take into account if the train stops at that particular station (express lines), what branch it goes to, and now apparantly also where 'uptown and downtown' are. (None of which are displayed easily on the map!!!) Hint: it's bad design. You don't design a map for the people who already know where to go, you design it for those unfamiliar with the system.
step 1: open google maps on your phone step 2: put in where you want to go step 3: choose an option (car, bus, train, bike, walk) step 4: follow directions
@@Abstract_zx Well you should be careful with google maps, it gives me horrible routes. Thankfully I don't leave my city much and I know my way around.
As a person with a pretty average IQ I have the same confidence you have in my ability to do the same 🤣 and I have in a few countries, Tokyo is the most robust system
I rode every mile of track at age 7 from the avenue X station looking for my father who was at nyc university hospital on 1st avenue in Manhattan. Except I didn’t know what stop to get off, and every 3 stops I would get off going to street level and not see the hospital. I rode around nyc for 18 hours. Finally a Transit cop found me sleeping on a train at the end of the 123 line in queens at 2am in the morning. And what I did on the LIRR trains being tested on Staten Island is another story at age 12, 51 years ago… Riding on the steps a foot off the ground holding on to the steel platform deck. How I would get to Boy Scouts in great kills on Hillside Terrace
@@bansheebot2 my father was in the hospital. I did this on my own a year or two after riding 6 miles across Brooklyn trying to runaway across the Verrazano narrow bridge. Without getting lost at 6 years old. 56 years later and I’m still traveling around after retirement as a truck driver
Ar 12 years old I would take bus from the city line in eastern Queens, get on the subway, change trains to get to the west side to go to the Museum of Natural History. Or, to the NY Worlds Fair. You can figure it out!
I imagine you get asp for directions a lot I would like to live in New York just long enough to learn how it works so I can understand it and have a real experience. I see a lot of comments and things related to New York on TH-cam where you can tell they’ve never been there, and just passing judgment based ona video
@@daltongallowaybro u can’t be this stupid he says there’s only 2 east west lines there’s 3 and the 7 is way more important than the shuttle like shut up already
As someone from Chicago, whos Public Transit System is extremely easy on my opinion, reading this map gave me a literal stroke. Theres so many branches, and what are the numbers and letters for? Im actually looking for a genuine explanation from a NYC citizen.
As someone who doesn’t have public transportation where I come from, the first time I used it and saw a mal it was really overwhelming and it still is a bit. Thank god for Google Maps. You can definitely get by, anyways. But not being familiar definitely puts you at a disadvantage.
Yeah, right. I lived in DC and their subway system is small and simple. Almost impossible to get lost. I visited NYC and used the subway. Omg, it is the most complicated, vast subway system. What made it even more difficult is the subways are stacked on top of each other. You may have to go down several levels to get to the subway line you need and even then, some are express and skip stations. It's not an easy system to learn but a necessity if you live there and need to commute quickly... Well quicker than driving most of the time.
The problem with the DC metro is that it’s actually a commuter rail system. You can sort of get around DC using the metro but you’re better off walking or taking a bus. The issue is that the lines only converge at metro center, lenfant plaza, or mcpherson square. If you want to get from Cleveland park to fort totten, you have to go downtown and then back up. In many large metro systems around the world, there would be a line that goes across this area and intersects at several lines. That’s why New York is superior in pure coverage. It may seem more confusing but it’s far easier.
Mayor Bloomberg's administration streamlined the timing of the trains' arrival and departure times to avoid waiting times of passengers on the subway platforms. It's, however, overly tight in a huge multilevel station such as West 4th Street. If one was one stairway off, one misses a train. Maybe it's why the people who ride it every day don't complain much. They get through riding the subway efficiently.
I seldom take the buses because of the frequent stops taking much time. Subway trains can shoot around underground much quicker if one knows when and where to go express and local.
The notion of "uptown" and "downtown" generally mean "north" and "south." However, the Manhattan street grid is off the North-South axis by about 30 degrees, so it's not exact. The concept of Uptown and Downtown that exists in Manhattan generally exists in the Bronx as well (and is consistent with Manhattan).
That's the only advise I got from my uncle when I moved to NYC, 24 years ago - "You only need to know Upton, downtown, that's all". And sent me to get lost in the sybway, and have fun getting lost. 😅
Oh, our immigration system requiring sponsors makes sense, doesn't it. We got this "uptown" "downtown" "local" "express" briefing down pat very early after our arriving in Manhattan. I counted station stops so I could pretty much nod off a bit with my eyes closed. 😊
When i encounter a confused tourist trying to figure out if they want to go north or south i loudly sing, "NY, NY its a hell of a town, the Bronx is up and the Battery's down...." Twice in the past 5 years I had the immense joy of fellow MTA passengers join in with "The people ride in a hole in rhe ground..."
In London the tube is very helpful - it has eastbound/westbound or northbound/southbound depending on the orientation of that particular station. Which is very intuitive in most cases.
So one must carry a compass to navigate the system? You think that makes it simple? I’ve been to London 4 times. As a New Yorker, I always use the tube and buses. Never have I ever used the tube thinking which way was south or north. Every platform has the final destination listed for each line.
@@afcgeo882 Well yeah the final destination is also very helpful, obviously. But in most cases, if you know where you are and where your destination will be (which you probably do if you've spent much time in London). But I find when I am running for the tube that is pulling up, the big sign saying 'NORTHBOUND' is often all I need - I know, for example, that I am currently in Southbank but need to get to Islington... which is north of me. Naturally, when I am somewhere I don't know so well, travelling to another place I don't know very well, I stand there like a tourist and read the signage etc.
What helps is using time square to distinguish going north, and then World Trade Center for going south; It helped me a lot when I was interning there on summer :’)
How to read the train maps:
1. Look at the lines
2. That's where the train goes
Yeah, I don't know why this guy is making it seem like studying hieroglyphics
Probably because a lot of people can't read Maps well and want to help people. Don't forget: He's dealing with People who often don't know where China or Russia is on the Map
It’s actually important to know what uptown and downtown is to locate what platform is your direction. You might know a line but you might not know the platforms.
Sometimes it’s easy to mess up which direction the train is going! Lol I’m a Long Islander and I end up on the right train going the wrong way very often,
The 7 is actually technically a Manhattan crosstown, so it is actually grouped with the L, and is also an East-West Line.
Yes! My train to Woodside where my friend lived. And to CitiField. Now the 7 goes to Hudson Yards to the east.
Same for the E. It stops at 50 St on 8 Av, then cuts across on 53rd, with stops at 7 Av, 5th, and Lex
Yeah I was gonna say Fuck the 7 train right
@@Ifitmatters52no 7 train better than u
@@Ifitmatters52HEY!
I really dont understand how hard is it to navigate for some people. All the information you need are printed there right under your eyes.
Plus there’s google maps now
It's only easy if you're familiar with stuff that isn't necessarily relevant to the system itself. In other transit systems around the world you can rely on a schematic map alone to get somewhere. In NYC you need to take into account if the train stops at that particular station (express lines), what branch it goes to, and now apparantly also where 'uptown and downtown' are. (None of which are displayed easily on the map!!!) Hint: it's bad design. You don't design a map for the people who already know where to go, you design it for those unfamiliar with the system.
step 1: open google maps on your phone
step 2: put in where you want to go
step 3: choose an option (car, bus, train, bike, walk)
step 4: follow directions
@@Abstract_zx Well you should be careful with google maps, it gives me horrible routes. Thankfully I don't leave my city much and I know my way around.
The important thing is you found a way to feel superior
As a New Yorker I have confidence that I could go to any country and read their map without a problem.
As a person with a pretty average IQ I have the same confidence you have in my ability to do the same 🤣 and I have in a few countries, Tokyo is the most robust system
Yes
"The Bronx is up and The Battery's down."
The extreme lack of east/west lines always frustrated me…and just the general lack of maintenance of the whole MTA 😂😂
I've been riding the subway since 1968. It's a different world today. Escalators and elevators, public art, lighting, signage, A/C.
You don’t she end billions on running a subway line for 10 blocks.
Manhattan isn’t even that wide just take the bus or walk
The 7 Train has left the chat
yes
I rode every mile of track at age 7 from the avenue X station looking for my father who was at nyc university hospital on 1st avenue in Manhattan. Except I didn’t know what stop to get off, and every 3 stops I would get off going to street level and not see the hospital. I rode around nyc for 18 hours. Finally a Transit cop found me sleeping on a train at the end of the 123 line in queens at 2am in the morning. And what I did on the LIRR trains being tested on Staten Island is another story at age 12, 51 years ago… Riding on the steps a foot off the ground holding on to the steel platform deck. How I would get to Boy Scouts in great kills on Hillside Terrace
The best son a Dad could ever hope for. Legend!
@@bansheebot2 my father was in the hospital. I did this on my own a year or two after riding 6 miles across Brooklyn trying to runaway across the Verrazano narrow bridge. Without getting lost at 6 years old. 56 years later and I’m still traveling around after retirement as a truck driver
The 123 doesn't go to Queens, tho the 3 ends fairly close to it in New Lots during daytime (the 4 runs there at nights)
Bro doesn't know the 7 exists
Visited Manhattan for the first time ever and I figured out the subways just fine.
I saw a rat the size of a small dog climbing up the stairs out of the NYC subway once.
That’s the closest I ever got to taking the subway 😂
Ar 12 years old I would take bus from the city line in eastern Queens, get on the subway, change trains to get to the west side to go to the Museum of Natural History. Or, to the NY Worlds Fair. You can figure it out!
I've met some of the nicest people in New York riding their transit system. ❤️
When getting around St. Louis we play a game of try not to wind up in Illinois
The 7 is also a crosstown train
i just got back home from my trip to NYC with my brother i loved riding the subway
Or just live in a civilized part of the country, much easier and without the smell.
Random thought, Five Boroughs, 5 Kage Nations from Naruto xD.
nah not a guy from Ohio explaining nyc subways
You mean up is north and down is south? Brilliant.🤓
New York sits on an angle so no, North is not up and south is not down
I don’t know how this is going to help me when I am in Colorado.
Thats a very vaild point. I'll take that into consideration for the next one.
haha somehow the algorithm must’ve messed up, also in colorado
Knowledge
I imagine you get asp for directions a lot I would like to live in New York just long enough to learn how it works so I can understand it and have a real experience. I see a lot of comments and things related to New York on TH-cam where you can tell they’ve never been there, and just passing judgment based ona video
Did u literally not even mention the 7 train? Ok new idea no one is allowed to make videos like this if they weren’t raised in NY
The video is only a minute log bro 😂
@@daltongallowaytell me you’re not from NYC and u didn’t understand my comment at all
@@daltongallowayLike he had time to mention the shuttle but not the 7? Dude if u not from NY don’t say nothing
@@jaredg92i bro this is a minute long clip cut from a longer video, you’re ignorant hahah
@@daltongallowaybro u can’t be this stupid he says there’s only 2 east west lines there’s 3 and the 7 is way more important than the shuttle like shut up already
Where Brooklyn at!?
Where Brooklyn at!?
What about Queeeeens?
What about Queeeeeeeeens?
How to read train maps:
Step 1: look at the lines bro
Step 2: see what line that line is
Step 3: that’s where it’s going
People live in staten island?😮
As someone from Chicago, whos Public Transit System is extremely easy on my opinion, reading this map gave me a literal stroke. Theres so many branches, and what are the numbers and letters for? Im actually looking for a genuine explanation from a NYC citizen.
As someone who doesn’t have public transportation where I come from, the first time I used it and saw a mal it was really overwhelming and it still is a bit. Thank god for Google Maps. You can definitely get by, anyways. But not being familiar definitely puts you at a disadvantage.
And then downtown brooklyn is in the north western part of the borough, or the closest to Manhattan.
Brooklyn and Manhattan are the only two boroughs that have a “downtown” as they were both independent cities before unification into one NYC.
I can figure out which train, which stop, etc. but finding the mf train platform is a HUGE pain in the ass. The signs suck!!!!
Until I started watching these subway videos I thought Manhattan was all of NYC. Now I understand why NYC is a big deal.
Metro maps are easy for me, bus routes/maps are hard
It’s so confusing
Duh, the 7 is crosstown from Grand central to Hudson yards. It’s right on the map !! LOL 🤦
Learn the alphabet before going to alphabet city.
and the 7 numbers
The Tube is pretty much North, East, South, West. It looks complicated but it’s easy.
T Train Joins Chat Wheres Me MTA Oh You Have To Wait
Sounds like a pain in the ass place to live. I got that from Seinfeld though.
Yeah, right. I lived in DC and their subway system is small and simple. Almost impossible to get lost. I visited NYC and used the subway. Omg, it is the most complicated, vast subway system. What made it even more difficult is the subways are stacked on top of each other. You may have to go down several levels to get to the subway line you need and even then, some are express and skip stations. It's not an easy system to learn but a necessity if you live there and need to commute quickly... Well quicker than driving most of the time.
The problem with the DC metro is that it’s actually a commuter rail system. You can sort of get around DC using the metro but you’re better off walking or taking a bus. The issue is that the lines only converge at metro center, lenfant plaza, or mcpherson square. If you want to get from Cleveland park to fort totten, you have to go downtown and then back up. In many large metro systems around the world, there would be a line that goes across this area and intersects at several lines. That’s why New York is superior in pure coverage. It may seem more confusing but it’s far easier.
@@nicktune1219 Agreed! NYC is much older and much more extensive. DCs is aging too.
DC also gets more attention from the government and more money cause it's the US capital. Cities are not treated equally
Mayor Bloomberg's administration streamlined the timing of the trains' arrival and departure times to avoid waiting times of passengers on the subway platforms. It's, however, overly tight in a huge multilevel station such as West 4th Street. If one was one stairway off, one misses a train.
Maybe it's why the people who ride it every day don't complain much. They get through riding the subway efficiently.
"Taking the bus is faster than the subway"
*Doubt*
I seldom take the buses because of the frequent stops taking much time. Subway trains can shoot around underground much quicker if one knows when and where to go express and local.
Dan, do you make regular vids, or just these quickies?
I guess it's difficult if can't do something as basic as read a map 🤔
Change the map to Spanish so the new citizens of NYC can read it.
This guy is gorgeous!
💅💅 thanks king
The notion of "uptown" and "downtown" generally mean "north" and "south." However, the Manhattan street grid is off the North-South axis by about 30 degrees, so it's not exact. The concept of Uptown and Downtown that exists in Manhattan generally exists in the Bronx as well (and is consistent with Manhattan).
Let's ignore the 7 train. The Mets always get ignored. 😢
That's the only advise I got from my uncle when I moved to NYC, 24 years ago - "You only need to know Upton, downtown, that's all". And sent me to get lost in the sybway, and have fun getting lost. 😅
I am glad for living in a city of 32 boroughs and 1000 contradictions instead, as our map doesn't need explaining.
Most people use “northbound” and “southbound” or “eastbound” and “westbound” for lines and “clockwise” or “anti-clockwise” for loops
Yall realize trains outside of Manhattan either way Manhattan bound or the name of the station where the like terminates right it’s easy
Grand central is technically a terminal and not a station.
only for the metro north and the lirr. It is a station for the subway, no lines terminate there
A terminal or terminus is a type of a station.
Why are you using the 42nd Street Shuttle as a main crosstown train line when it’s clearly the 7?
There is the path that runs east to west to Jersey that has a few stops In lower Manhattan
And you’re a true New York expert if you’ve used the Path to go between 33rd St and Christopher St because you know the subway won’t.
My quick travel tip for NYC, live somewhere else. :) Works for me, every single time.
It's also stupid that marble hill is in Manhattan
marble hill is in Bronx
and what’s wrong with it being in the Bronx
@@EndIessProductions marble hill is in Manhattan and it should be in the bronx
@@Fireball_ bro it’s in the bronx i looked it up
@EndIessProductions it's not you can look closer next time
Thank you! I live in a city with many elevated trains. However there is one major problem. I’m in Chicago
Hey! Most native New Yorkers know there are 5 boroughs that make up the city of New York!
The S train is the weirdest route 🤔 Why??
I love my city.
Why so many repeats of your videos?
Why so many repeats of your videos?
What a shitty design. Some trains can only go one way?
Laaaame
it’s 2 tracks for each line 💀 they can both 2 ways dum fuck
5 barros ? Does he mean boroughs?
Indeed I do
As a rabbit, I always know where my burrow is.
Why are there no underground burrows? All the 5 existing burrows seem be above ground.
Boroughs?
Even Biggie didn’t know where’s Brooklyn at?
Wish I knew this when I was 13. lol. My ass was lost all the time 😂
You on that Home Alone 2 ish😂
Oh, our immigration system requiring sponsors makes sense, doesn't it. We got this "uptown" "downtown" "local" "express" briefing down pat very early after our arriving in Manhattan. I counted station stops so I could pretty much nod off a bit with my eyes closed. 😊
I've an inertial guidance system.
But the map isn’t even that hard to understand the stuff is printed right infront of your face
Map of burroughs looks like an adult diaper.
When i encounter a confused tourist trying to figure out if they want to go north or south i loudly sing, "NY, NY its a hell of a town, the Bronx is up and the Battery's down...." Twice in the past 5 years I had the immense joy of fellow MTA passengers join in with "The people ride in a hole in rhe ground..."
Where Minnie and Mickey wrestle over a police doughnut round and round.
What's with the mullet?
They have a loooooot to learn from russia
The signs in the Moscow Subway are in Cyrillic, so nobody can read them!
Nah, google maps!
use caution ⚠ ⚠️⚠️
Where is gotham
Highlights? LOL
Unsubscribed.
Just walk😊
Oh bore off.
Uptown girl
Wow no kidding
What cracked out lunatic designed those train lines
Information ℹ will never need.
How to read a subway map. 101.
0:01
It's Grand Central Terminal,
not Grand Central Station.
London >>>
"OnLy In new York"
Is it not just in terms of the compass ie north is ‘up’?
NY sits at an angle, so north is not the top of the map.
Staten Island shouldn’t exist
why is that
Team Numéro2 !
But what u know about the 9 train tho?
bro that train got removed 15 fucking years ago 💀
that train was gone a long time ago
Burrow? Like where a rabbit lives?
bru
Duh ? !
Shave
K
Well done
Is Bu Ro the way NY or Americans pronounce what I say as Bur O.
It's pronounced bu-row, if you're asking about the pronunciation of borough(s). The way this is pronounced in this video, is correct.
Born New Yorker and I still get lost
In London the tube is very helpful - it has eastbound/westbound or northbound/southbound depending on the orientation of that particular station. Which is very intuitive in most cases.
So one must carry a compass to navigate the system? You think that makes it simple? I’ve been to London 4 times. As a New Yorker, I always use the tube and buses. Never have I ever used the tube thinking which way was south or north. Every platform has the final destination listed for each line.
@@afcgeo882 Well yeah the final destination is also very helpful, obviously. But in most cases, if you know where you are and where your destination will be (which you probably do if you've spent much time in London).
But I find when I am running for the tube that is pulling up, the big sign saying 'NORTHBOUND' is often all I need - I know, for example, that I am currently in Southbank but need to get to Islington... which is north of me.
Naturally, when I am somewhere I don't know so well, travelling to another place I don't know very well, I stand there like a tourist and read the signage etc.
What helps is using time square to distinguish going north, and then World Trade Center for going south; It helped me a lot when I was interning there on summer :’)