Or to Albany then down the Hudson. That's what Amtrak wants you to do.

Bus is actually very reliable and fast

My sister lives in NYC and we visit each other regularly.

Flying is awesome and it’s a 35 minute flight. JetBlue & American to JFK and Delta to LGA http://flyorh.com/

There’s also Peter Pan bus which goes direct between Union Station and Port Authority and is about 3.5 hours. One bus a day but it rally has always worked great and been on time. Definitely not as painful as NYC-BOS buses. https://peterpanbus.com/

There is also OurBus which is newer so I haven’t tried them yet: https://www.ourbus.com/

The train is not really a decent option unless you have an easy way to get down to Providence. (There is shockingly no bus from Worcester to Providence). Going backwards to Boston is silly.

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Same, absolutely. I am a Worcesterite, through and through.

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Minus the the living in Boston part. I am Worcester born and raised!

Why beautiful?? You’re giving clubbing vibes or sex party….

You can take a train from Union Station to NYC. You just need to take it out to Boston and all the way down the coast first. Which takes something like 6 hours.

I don't attend games and deliberately don't go to the area when there's a game because parking becomes scarce despite parking being banned for games. There's businesses in the area I'd be spending money at in the absence of games.

The easiest way to get there is fly. There are multiple flights from Worcester airport to NYC everyday. It's extremely convenient, a very fast flight and actually fairly cheap

If you plan on someone from your group getting roofied and not sample good whiskey, then go there.

tired of this

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if you don't like it, either LEAVE or change it

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you have the power in yourself to make change happen

Even driving, you’re at a minimum 3.5 hours to NYC from Worcester and that’s not counting traffic. 4 hours sounds reasonable to me for a train ride

Thank you for this answer, and yeah, I definitely don't live in Worcester, nor do I know much about it. I am considering attending college in the area.

This post sounds like you don't live in Worcester. It's not quick to get to NYC.

There is no direct train from worcester to NYC. If you want to take a train, then you either drive to Providence and hop on the amtrack there to nyc...or drive down farther to Stamford CT and pick up the amtrack train there. Or you drive/take a bus directly to NYC. Driving might take you anywhere from 3.5hrs to 5hrs depending on traffic or where in NYC you're going to. The train, if it's the Acela line, will take 3.5hrs to go from Providence to Penn Station in nyc. No matter what mode of transportation, it's going to be around 4hrs.

If you're thinking of wanting short day trips to NYC... that's not going to happen. A short day trip would be going to a city like Boston. NYC is more like a weekend trip.

The ballpark has 75 home games a year. There’s about 24 weeks to the season, and maybe half of those weekends have home games Friday-Saturday.

That is 12 weekends a year where a ballpark adjacent business is going to see a significant decrease in business due to the ballpark on weekends, which is when restaurants make the most money.

Trying to “attract” a percentage of the ~9000 fans who attend a 3+ hour baseball game isn’t feasible. Most people go out for a drink or two before the game. Most aren’t going to add in 1.5 hours to sit down for a meal before or after the game. Weeknight games start at 6:35pm. Realistically, who is getting out of work early to go eat before the game, and who is going to go out to eat at 10pm after the game? Not many. Study after study shows that fans spend most of their money and time inside the ballpark, and the perception of crowds on game day drive away other customers.

Across the board businesses in the Canal District (not just restaurants) have said sales are down on game days because customers stay away on game days because of traffic, congestion, a lack of parking, 2 hour meters, and an absolute lack of public transport.

Have you ever worked in the restaurant industry? Restaurants stay open for the hours that people show up. Adding hours means adding employees, adding product, and additional costs. You just can’t decide a few weeks a year to have odd hours and add in temp workers. That’s not how the industry works. Off hours are off hours for a reason, and you will lose money trying to attract customers in during off hours.

I was pretty lucky too, the tech booms really helped my family even though my folks were in education. Hard to deny that reality.

I couldn't find any info on it but I think Worcester still has a mortgage on the DCU which opened in 1982. The Worcester Center Galleria (mall) was profitable for only about a decade after which it steadily declined and was eventually demolished. It never paid for itself. Polar Park was another roll of the dice and only time will tell. I think all of these things were attempts to restore Worcester's economy after industry died there. Hopefully Polar Park will draw other businesses to the area.

Yea it definitely wasn’t bad, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t have a privileged upbringing. But it’s easier to see that out here than back in CA where every other car was a Tesla

You’d be surprised 🤷🏻‍♂️

That's a good place to be from, I suppose, lol. I'm from SJ, tho I used to work in Palo Alto and in Los Altos, had a lot of customers from the Park (I was in auto repair).

Lots of the same type of people in Menlo Park. The Peninsula was definitely the worst of tech culture with all the heavy hitters being there.

I'm glad to be here, but I miss nicely paved roads.

Worcester is the perfect balance of low-key but still having stuff to do and places to see.

>5-7pm and 11pm-close aren’t the best times for restaurants. It’s good for bars.

But restaurants have to cater to the people who are going to be around them. Having a staff there from 5-7 and working to entice people who are walking from parking inside, and maybe doing something in terms of advertising.

What did, say, the barbecue spot actually do to try to attract people who were going to the games? Weekends they were 12-8, other days of the week they were open 4-8? What kinds of hours are those?

>games end past closing time of most restaurants in the area, with the exception of maybe 99, Wings over Worcester, and some pizza places.

I mean, the restaurants determine their opening and closing times.

This seems legit

Same, and i do!