⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ Walking NYC (Narrated) : Port Authority Bus Terminal - Busiest in the World (November 8, 2019)
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A walk through the Port Authority Bus Terminal in NYC during a weekday morning Rush Hour.
From Wikipedia:
"The Port Authority Bus Terminal (colloquially known as the Port Authority and in initials as PABT) is the main gateway for interstate buses into Manhattan in New York City. It is owned and operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ). The bus terminal is located in Midtown at 625 Eighth Avenue between 40th Street and 42nd Street, one block east of the Lincoln Tunnel and one block west of Times Square. It is one of three bus terminals operated by the PANYNJ, the others being the George Washington Bridge Bus Station in Upper Manhattan and the Journal Square Transportation Center in Jersey City.
The PABT serves as a terminus and departure point for commuter routes, as well as for long-distance intercity routes, and is a major transit hub for New Jerseyans. The terminal is the largest in the United States and the busiest in the world by volume of traffic, serving about 8,000 buses and 225,000 people on an average weekday and more than 65 million people a year. It has 223 departure gates and 1,250 car parking spaces, as well as commercial and retail space. In 2011, there were more than 2.263 million bus departures from the terminal.
The PABT, opened in 1950 between 8th and 9th Avenues and 40th and 41st Streets, was built to consolidate the many different private terminals spread across Midtown Manhattan. A second wing extending to 42nd Street was added in 1979. Since then, the terminal has reached peak hour capacity, leading to congestion and overflow on local streets. As it does not allow for layover parking, buses are required to use local streets or lots, or return through the tunnel empty. The PANYNJ has been unsuccessful in its attempts to expand passenger facilities through public private partnership and in 2011, it delayed construction of a bus depot annex, citing budgetary constraints. In June 2013, it commissioned an 18-month study that would consider reconfiguration, expansion, and replacement options."
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True story , one morning around 3 am in the mid 70' s I witnessed a scene which to me could only be described as the true spirit , grit , the good and the bad of NYC . One of the city ' countless unfortunate homeless people , a sweet looking little old lady was bundled up and sleeping away on one of the benches , oblivious to the activity taking place all around her which included a cleaning crew busy at work . The bad was that she had to be sleeping in the middle of the port authority terminal , but the good was that 2 burly workers gently lifted the bench ,taking extreme care not to wake her up , moved it , cleaned the area , and then gently brought her back to the original spot . I Love New York ! Thanks for post this video , loved it .
First time I saw the PA bus terminal was in 1963, after a 3-day bus trip from El Paso, Texas. It's definitely changed a lot. Thanks for the video.
El Paso!
Seeing the terminal brought back so many memories. My family used to take greyhound down south every summer. I can’t believe the balls machine is still there.
Very nice walk with you, enjoy your narrated as always, a walk with you, makes my day and put smile on my face, Port Authority Bus Terminal, looks so well kept up. As always people make the world go around and walk with you is as if friend makes more fun. New York, New York ... say twice , you just got love it twice as much ... The Act is Kid. Thank You and Bless Your Heart ... Kid ... If I took bus out New York, I go to see more beauty that can only be American, BIG SMILE ....
Thank you very much! I’m so happy that you enjoy my narrated walks as much as I enjoy making them!
I cannot believe all the changes made since I lived in NYC and used the bus terminal. Love the videos. It keeps me in touch with my old home town.
The classical music is played so kids will think it’s an uncool place to be and won’t hang out there. It’s even louder at night. One Halloween a few years ago the theme from the X-Files was playing all day, it was awesome.
Great video, ActionKid! 😊
As I see the bus terminal is huge! Thank you for your excursion! 😊
Thank you so much for your videos. These videos literally take many of us through time and space.
What an amazing time we live in. People rushing at a brisk pace down corridors and staircases while furiously tapping their smart screens from Starbucks to Dunkin and back again to Starbucks.
With videos like yours, we will never tire of coming back to New York as often as possible. B [France]
I could watch you walking around the terminal for an hour very enjoyable video 😊.
I've taken two very short bus trips to NYC where I didn't stay over, so the bus terminal was my home base to use the bathroom, to be honest. It's good that they have open bathrooms (as opposed to in a restaurant where you'd have to buy something and use a key like in my city). I went in what I thought was the same entrance on two occasions, yet I was faced with two different parts of the building. The place is a behemoth, massive. This video is showing places I didn't even know were in it.
I don't know but im totally entertained by this kind of video where you take us on tour. keep it up! and see you in Feb!
Nice, I didn't know about this bus terminal. Thanks for the tour!
Amazing Port Authority Bus Terminal. Thanks for sharing.
Great video as always Action Kid and really enjoy watching and learning about this huge terminal.
Thank you for your video and cheers as always!
Thanks for sharing about NYC 👍👍. I really enjoy it this video and my brain still thinking about NYC right now.
Watching this in Hong Kong. Hopefully I will be visiting there one day. Thanks for this video. Good to hear your voice.
Awesome as always. Glad to see that you are so close to reaching 100 Thousand subscribers 👍You have many admirers. You are one COOL dude . 🇺🇸
Thanks!
He sure is. I'm hoping he makes it before new year. 😊
Thank you thank you thank you! God bless and keep you always!
thanks for the video, it helped me a lot!
Finally! Thank you!
Well done, love the 4k👍
It is so clean! I’m quite amazed.
Bless you for this
Thanks for the video.
thank you so much!!
Thanks for this deep but briefly review and the walkthrough from the NYC Subway to the Bus Terminal.. It will be a good reference to any foreign traveler trying to get into the Bus Terminal. It would be helpful for those first travelers as well.
I Love your NARRATED VIDEO,,,
I remember the kinetic ball display from the 1980s. I’ve always enjoyed it.
Glad to see it is still there.
Wow - It's so nice. And it is so big you could go to the bus terminal to do a little Christmas shopping.
"An eight-foot-tall bronze statue of a jolly Jackie Gleason stands in front of Manhattan's midtown Port Authority Bus Terminal. Jackie, clad in his Honeymooners bus driver's uniform, clutches his lunch pail and wears a satisfied expression as he looks out over the mostly indifferent passers-by on New York's Eighth Avenue." Jackie Gleason played Ralph Kramden as a bus driver in the TV series, The Honeymooners, which was a popular show in the '50's but is aired over TV decades after.
Thanks for this nice video, Actionkid, and keep up the great work.
Thanks for the information!
@@ActionKid sure, no problem.
Loved this one. My favorite because of the people. !
Action with great action love this 😘😍❣️ awesomeness 💞
My impression is that its very clean.. Great maintenance staff..
Looks can be deceiving
A great video, Thank you! could easily be mistaken for an airport terminal its that big
I know people like to rag on PABT (like all bus terminals), but it's a remarkable facility in that it handles that much traffic while providing indoor concourses and gate areas throughout, like an airport. Most newer bus stations elsewhere in the country are little more than an agglomeration of curbside bus stops, and many local transit agencies don't use terminals at all for their commuters routes--instead they tell you to go stand and wait at this or that corner stop.
I enjoy the tours of NYC and the bus station
Thanks for video
Very interesting video. Thanks Actionkid . Very Cool. 😍😍😍
Thank you so much for your impressions.
Even if it is a different country, another continent - it looks the same everywhere - only the color of the tiles, walls etc is different and the people have a different mother tongue .....
I look forward to your new videos, where I have further chance to go on a journey of discovery.
Best regards from Germany.
thank very much!!
Place is more like a mall with Bus access. Great enjoyable video man. Awesome. I’m from South Jersey.
I have been there many times tp and from NY from PA have been going to the au bon pain and that Starbucks on almost every trip i love coming into NY my Favorite city awesome video!!!!!!
This terminal is massive! The ball machine at 5:29, is random a bus terminal but it is really cool.
It really is cool! It’s so random yet so fun!
Oh my God, I requested you to do this for like a year Actionkid....Thank you 🙏🙏🙏
I was there with my girlfriend a couple of years ago.....I'm from Philly so I'm used to public transportation.....but I was amazed by this place....this is definitely a modern marvel....thanks for posting
Dude you put out so much good content so often and honestly thank you! You deserve so many more subs honestly. Actionkid foreverrr
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Good tour AK 👍
I think I'm going on a bus trip to NYC this summer. All because of your videos.
Great video, thanks to you I know better port authority.
Many, many, many, many times have I been here in the 1980s and 90's - commuting into work and back home 75 miles each way. Your video makes this l terminal look cleaned up. Thank you very much for this video!
Oh please please, can you tell me how rough it was back in the 1980's and 90's? I've only been to port authority after nyc cleaned up post 9/ll.
@@JDintheDMV I used to see quite a few homeless people and a few odd-looking people - it just appeared that they were "looking" for their next meal or their next victim. But there was a gradual improvement over the decades.
really good!!!
My last visit to Manhattan & Brooklyn was in 2014. My hotel happened to be on the other end of the Lincoln Tunnel & commuted in by New Jersey Transit. It was overall a great experience & I was impressed with both of your large transit hubs, Grand Central & this Port Authority Terminal. What was the most interesting & somewhat scary experience was after a long day around 830-9pm my Wife, Sister In Law, & I were headed back to our hotel when we noticed a lot of emergency vehicles outside of the Port Authority Terminal. Over the PA system it was announced that the station was closed for the rest of the night & there be no more bus service. Having no clue how we would get back to our hotel (So Close Yet So Far!) after getting convoluted instructions from a friend on an alternative route, even that way we wouldn't be back @ the hotel best till 330am! Yes we could had taken a taxi though noticed too no one was being asked to leave so we just lingered around like the rest. What reason honest we've no clue. Maybe following the flock perhaps! Long story short I believe came 1145pm the station was reopened & we made a mad dash to catch what we hoped be our last bus running for that night! Luckily we got it with no problem. Story to be told upon return & later home! LOL!
I've seen that ball display in september 1989 when I was leaving New York by Greyhound for my trip to San Francisco. As far as I could find it was made by the artist George Roads and installed in 1981. So nice to see it's still there! Thanks to You I can sort of revisit New York! I must say that the terminal looks a lot better than it did in 1989. It looked a bit rundown in my memory. Dark and in need fore some renovation.
Wow, I can’t believe that ball display has been there since 1981!
@@ActionKid I had to wait, so I watched it for some time. I shot hours of video, but no pictures here alas!
It's a different ball and it's bigger now. It was replaced in 2009 and is now a permanent fixture where they used to put it away before that. It's just hidden all year now.
How long did the Greyhound take to get to San Francisco?
@@sirbob9367 I took nine days for the trip, but that was because I stayed over in several city's. But as far as I remember it would take 3 days (2 nights) for the distance.
Nice memories, traveling from NYC to Montreal with Adirondack Trailways.
I’m from Spain and while I was visiting NYC I was hosted in a hotel called Yotel and I could see this terminal straight from the window of my room. It’s crazy how in any moment I was looking at it there was at least one bus going through any of the ramps. I even woke up at 3am, 4am, and 5am because of the jet lag and there were the buses going up and down.
Great video
Okay, yeah I was waiting for you to go into a bus gate, that's where it gets real at....lol....I remember going to NYC many times in the 90's & early 2000's by bus & from NYC to Philadelphia
I was amazed at how clean it was there. So welcoming. I would want to be going to Pennsylvania to Longwood Gardens to see their Christmas display. 🎄🎄🎄🎁
Great!
Such a big place and they seem to keep it pretty damn clean.
The place has vastly improved since the 60's, 70's, 80,s! It was hell in the 70's . The restrooms were a horror. Filled with homeless, and filthy beyond belief. The authorities did little to maintain it.
I remember those days.
@Tony Vans HaHaHa! Not quite.
Hey man, I know it's tough times right now, but when/if stuff dies down in NY, can you do a GWB bus terminal video?
i love in Fresno CA, the 7/11 here plays classical music to help the homeless not get so violent and to relax them, it does work!
I remember back in the days i took a trip from Boston jus to tour this station n went back pretty big a station
Very informative video! It helps me out a lot!
Will you or do you have a video on how to get to Newark Airport from Manhattan by train? Along with how to purchase the tickets and price? :D
Thank you! I don’t think I’ll be making a video from Newark Airport anytime soon.
My stomping ground a few days during the week. Was just there yesterday. McCann's is an Irish bar that has been there for years. U didn't show the bowling alley right when you got off the escalator 😔😔 Trying to figure if I was there on Friday lol
Quality content.
Nice video.
That's crazy. By just the size of it you could swore up and down that its an airport.
When I go to NY I'll certainly visit the museums.
You definitely should!
We would often take the Martz Trailways milk run from Scranton into Port Authority throughout the 1990s. In fact, on Halloween, 1992, we went to see Frank Sinatra at Radio City. Our return bus was around 11:00 PM and I remember hoping over someone dressed in a gorilla suit sitting on the ground at our gate. I don't remember that main ticketing plaza; to purchase tickets, we had to go to one of the store locations where a ticket counter was housed.
Awesome!
I love videos !😀👆🙏
Last month i went to Clinton by trans Bridge bus on Port Authority but i’ve been there só many times to go to NY!!
good morning my bro greetings from Costa Rica
Any plans on doing a walk from JFK to the Cruise terminals? Would be great for us 1st timers trying to get to the cruise terminals. :)
That would be a long walk from Southeastern Queens to Manhattan!
I had the opportunity to drive a Trailways bus into the terminal back in the 80’s. It was definitely a experience I came in from Pittsburgh The I would take a Grayhound home
12:03 Wow, how did you noticed the sign "bus passenger zone"!? With so many signs everywhere, it's so easy to miss the sign. They should put it right in the middle, between those two doors, if they want it to enforce it. Am glad that you notice it, and it was wise to obey it! :)
This is one of the few subway stations in the system to be accessible via ramps instead of elevators. Ramps take longer and more effort to use since they usually go in a spiral or zig-zag path due to the limited gradient but it has the benefits of not using any electricity, not being able to break down, not requiring maintenance and being cheaper and quicker to install. So the MTA should prioritize ramps and only choose elevators over ramps if there isn’t enough room or the height difference is too much.
music at 10:00 is Portia by Miles Davis hahaha great song, honestly. Never thought I'd hear it in the Port Authority tho
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Next trip will be to Woodbury Commons, ActionKid. Since watching your video, I'm planning a trip soon!
Alright!
Enjoying the arctic blast Ken? I was there sunday. burrrrrr. 😳
Yup I’m enjoying it!
It seems like a very lively place. I would be there to check it out mainly. Maybe catch a bus to who know's where.
I take the bus to the city from Jersey, so I am very familiar with the Port Authority. My dad worked for the Port Authority for many years until he retired in 1999. It has definitely changed and the classical music you hear is coming from the intercoms. In the 80s it was really bad there. No classical music and a lot of homeless people. It has definitely cleaned up since then. 😉
You must know the Port Authority very well! For many it’s one of their first experiences being in NYC.
@@ActionKid Yep!! Either that or the dreaded Penn Station.
I was just here yesterday.
Is there wifi or reception in the terminal?
Buon giorno Action Kid. First off ? Let me say thank you for the referral on the video you sent me of your walkthrough of the holiday train. I have a question of that train though. Do the employees and passengers get dressed up like in clothing dating back to the early 20th century? At least on one specific day ?? Anyway i forgot about how big that bus terminal is. It is huge and to think Texans say everything in Texas is big... lol... anyway Grazie for another great as always video. I feel as though im getting re educated on that great city i was born. Have a great , great day. Ciao.
You’re welcome! The employees don’t get dressed up but there are many social groups and people who decide to wear clothing dates back to that time. There are even live bands who perform on the train too!
@@ActionKid Thank you again for the info on the holiday train in the city. It is greatly appreciated. Now ? Im anguish to see your 5th. Ave. Holiday stroll. Have a great evening .
well done
Is there a motels near by
I'd take the bus home back to the South Pole, ho ho ho! Happy sappy X-Mass, ActionKid, I'll be
coming down by the chimney to take your gifts.
It looks like mall 1st bus station next. Actually I was there way back in 2003. I took a 🚎 (PeterPan) from Boston. It got off the highway in the south Bronx crossed the Harlem River ,down fifth Ave. transversed Central Park then south on 9th or 10 Ave. Leaving NYC it left the station crossed the Hudson via the Lincoln Tunnel then through Secaucus and up not sure 95 ?
Hi everyone today is Friday November 8 2019 ....temperatures F° and C ° ? 🤣 yes it is busy there 🚶♂️🗽👍🏆🏆🗽 Thanks for this video, good job 👍
Have a nice day. Your calm personality will help you have a nice day.
Thank you very much!
Didn't know it was that huge!
Yes, it’s very big!
13:35 hello operator =)
The largest bus station in the world is Millennium Park Bus Depot in the city of Delhi, India. Its parking area can accommodate 1,000 buses.
I believe there have been proposals to rebuild or replace the Terminal. It's not obvious from your interesting video what's wrong with the current setup.
I saw it late !! 😁 ... 💝💝
Also buses to Atlantic City here.
Yup!