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Obvious-Hospital431 t1_j770d3e wrote

Reply to comment by caroline_elly in Is there any reason why the wind is so much more aggressive in Jersey City compared to the surrounding areas? by yesiam_samiam

My understanding is that while the buildings do block it, it still has to go somewhere, so wherever there’s room for the wind to go, it creates wind tunnels around them. It really only works to truly block if it’s all densely packed (like if you’re walking down the block in midtown it’s ok, but then as soon as you get to the corner you get slammed)

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Acrobatic-Season-770 t1_j76zt2o wrote

Reply to Commute from NYC to NJ? by [deleted]

It depends on how often you do it and where you wind up. as you prob know already, it's all about what train lines you are near. A d as you know, the subways run less freq at night and the path is one of the worst, I'm talking like 30 min headways after midnight but you can always check the schedule ahead of time and that I combination with checking the MTA schedule should save you previous waiting time in stations but it's still annoying.

In my 20s I moved to JC for a year after having lived in Manhattan and BK for years. I moved back to BK after that bc I felt isolated and I was only going out in Manhattan and BK. Now having moved to JC recently in my 30s, it's a different lifestyle and I still go out in Manhattan and BK all the time but my nights tend to be less inebriated, I'm partnered up, and I usually still head home earlier in the night now. And it's fine for me. The occasional expensive cab is also not that big of a problem although with the Holland tunnel closures coming up, might want to stay cognizant of that too.

That being said I think it depends on your tolerance for public transit woes and hiccups. Otherwise, the path still runs 24/7 so you should generally be okay .

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bodhipooh t1_j76wybd wrote

Reply to comment by _homegrown in Is there any reason why the wind is so much more aggressive in Jersey City compared to the surrounding areas? by yesiam_samiam

>became known as the windy City because the politicians were long winded...

Not because they were long winded, but because they were supposedly called windbags in a NYC press editorial! A wingbag is someone who talks at length but says little of value. NYC and Chicago were competing against each other to host the World Fair and the Chicago advocates were derided in that editorial as being wingbags. But, the World Fair theory is more like an apocryphal story. Even before the World Fair's shenanigans, Chicago politicians (and residents) had a reputation for being full of hot air, and that's a theory for the Windy City moniker that holds more water.

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Direct_Ad18 t1_j76qzou wrote

Reply to comment by Anonymous1985388 in Is there any reason why the wind is so much more aggressive in Jersey City compared to the surrounding areas? by yesiam_samiam

Bayonne is sheltered by Staten island, not as exposed to direct ocean wind. Also low elevations all around Bayonne so the wind carries over the land. Downtown JC has high elevations on the west so the wind gets trapped. Hoboken is actually worse with regard to bathtub affect (it's why flooding is worse, because the western part of Hoboken actually goes down in elevation), but further up the river so less wind.

Also not based on science.

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