More Extreme Commuters

Extreme Commuter: 4 hours to school - each way

Jay Mundy's recent 21st birthday didn't end until 2 a.m. the following day.

Extreme Commuter: From Maybrook to Midtown

Jennifer Rodriguez often has to cut her nighttime activities short to catch the last bus to her upstate New York home, a two-hour ride that gets her in well after midnight.

Extreme Commuter: Across two boroughs

Sei Yoshioka both lives and works in New York City, yet his work commute can add up to four hours a day round trip and stretch about 40 miles total.

Extreme Commuter: A treck down a goat path

The start of Lisa Ramaci's commute to work in New Jersey is unremarkable - a subway ride to a commuter train.

Extreme Commuter: A bus, a boat and a train

Kasandra Gonzalez could simply take one long express bus trip to work. Instead, the Staten Island resident chooses an extreme commute involving a bus, train and ferry, which is about 10 minutes longer but much cheaper.

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Daily grind from Albany to Manhattan

Close to one million passengers ride Amtrak's Empire Service between Albany and Manhattan every year. But only a fraction do it five days a week, round-trip, as part of their daily commute.

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A daily 175 mile commute

Some people meet their friends at the bar after work, but for Extreme Commuter Sean Granahan, his evening socializing is done on the three hour bus ride home.

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Touring three states every morning

Human resources manager Carin Dupuis is no stranger to train transfers--she does it four times a day, among three transit systems and across three states.

An extremely difficult commute

You would think taking a bus for one stop would be a pretty easy ride to work -- it's so short you can even walk it. But not when you're traveling on a Kennedy Airport access road that has no sidewalk and rely on a bus that sometimes comes just once an hour.

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Wheelchair doesn't slow commuter down

The seven-mile commute from the Bronx to midtown might be considered easy by some standards, but everything changes when the commuter in question can't use his legs.

An eight-hour commute, no joke

Some commuters exaggerate and say they spend more time getting to and from work than they do toiling at the office. Kimberly Twist does not exaggerate.

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Rollerblading against the flow

Conventional wisdom suggests it's safer to travel down city streets with the flow of traffic rather than against it. But our latest extreme commuter, Ingrid Tarjan, who has been rollerblading the avenues of Manhattan for more than 15 years, says skating the wrong way is the best way.

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A four-hour commute--if he's lucky

Staten Island is only a few miles south of Manhattan, but the two boroughs can feel a world apart. Few know this better than Jonathan Acierno, who spends upward of an hour on an "express" bus commuting across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel to Grand Central Terminal.

'Extreme Commuter' cycles 200 blocks a day

Commuting more than 100 blocks to work and school is something millions of New Yorkers do by express subway, bus or car. But doing it by bicycle, at night, in this kind of weather, is a bit extreme.