Have you looked at Jersey City or Hoboken? They’re both in New Jersey but accessible to Manhattan by PATH train, which is essentially a clean(er) subway. So you’d still need a car to get to work, but the commute wouldn’t be as long, and when you wanted to go into the city, you’d just hop on the PATH, which is the same as hopping on the subway, which you would have had to do anyway (disclaimer: the PATH only goes as high as 34th St., but of course you can transfer to the “real” subway to go any higher).
If there are enough people at Samsung that live in Manhattan there might be some sort of van pool. The downside to that is you’re locked into those hours. Unless you have to be on site, though, you can just finish whatever needs to be finished at home.
It’s a piece of cake commute by car, but keeping a car in Manhattan if you can’t afford a garage is…well, you really gotta love having a car, let me put it that way.
When you get here you’ll see the lay of the land. Samsung is located in a northern finger of the meadowlands (a wetlands) and is at the foot of the western slope of the palisades (a cliff). All the cross-river action, except for a few ferries and the GW Bridge, is south of the palisades. There are NJ Transit train stations in the general area (say, Teterboro) but it’s probably too far away to make it worth your while.
I keep a car in Manhattan and reverse commute, crazy as that sounds. It’s worth it to me to live in Manhattan and not have to deal with public transit. I keep the car in a garage, and it lives better than I do, but what the hell, this is the life I want. Just FYI : If you’re driving to NJ from Manhattan, it doesn’t really matter if you live on the East or West sides, as long as you’re close to the FDR or the Westside Highway. It’s very easy to get to the GWB from either one. Good luck whatever you decide!
They have all of the NJ Transit routes that I’ve ever looked at, and I therefore presume that they have ALL of the NJ Transit routes (but maybe I’m wrong). But I can easily imagine that they are missing the info from other companies.
The big gotcha is that the stops only appear when you have zoomed in extremely close. Let’s use the OP’s location in Ridgefield Park, for example. If you click here, I hope you’ll see two little blue squares on Challenger Rd. There’s a white picture in them of what is supposed to look like the front of a bus, and they are located at the northbound and southbound bus stops there. (Extra bonus: If your mouse hovers over the icon, Google will give you number of the bus line, and if you click on it, it will even show the schedule!) But if you zoom out even one level, Google will not show them any more.
I never noticed that.
When I’m at home (Brooklyn), the subway stations show up on my phone without zooming in at all.
So how did your interview go?
I am not an employee, but I work for a company that does work on their behalf and I’ve had to visit, so I have made that commute a number of times. There are certainly a good number of other employees of the Large Korean Electronics Company who commute in from parts of NYC via the bus. It’s easy and reliable.
Meh. I was not overwhelmed by them, and, as a result, they may have had the some opinion of me. Just not a good fit.
Honestly, I thing they need to stop interviewing for this role until they figure out what the hell they want it to do. I interviewed with 7 different people over a 4 hour stretch (a horrible way to run interviews, IMHO) and I heard at least 4 very different versions of how they define success for this role.
Couple that with (coincidental timing) an organizational change in my current company that wound up with by current job being moved from Director to a Sr Director level makes it pretty likely I’ll stay right where I am.
I’d still love to be a Manhattanite at some point, but this doesn’t seem like the opportunity or time to make that happen.
Thanks to all that responded, I appreciate it!!!