Getting Around Using HopStop

The best way I've found to map my trips around NYC is by using the free iPhone application called  HopStop. 

You just enter the address of your destination, and it tells you which subway(s) to catch where. It also tells you how long the trip will take, how much it will cost, how many calories you'll burn, and even how many pounds of CO2 you won't be emitting into the atmosphere by not driving!


Here is the trip I used to get to a Target Store in East Harlem yesterday. As you can see it cost me $2.50 and included 11 minutes of walking time with a total trip time of 41 minutes.

If I'd wanted to take a bus, it would also calculate that for me. It would have cost the same, but taken me 6 more minutes to get there. However, I would have walked 2 fewer minutes.

If my feet were hurting that day, I could have taken a taxi and got there in only 25 minutes. (Ahem--that's not calculating the time it would take to flag one down on the street or call a service to pick me up.) And I would be out $20 instead of $2.50.