East Flatbush, where on average commuters spent 48 minutes getting to work in 2008! That's nearly ten minutes longer than the citywide mean, 39.4 minutes, reports the Post. Other deep Brooklyn locales offered nearly-as-grueling journeys: Brownsville residents spent 47.4 minutes door-to-door. As for East New York, the winner in a previous survey, its average commute of 63.3 minutes fell considerably to 46 minutes. Researchers say that's because people gave up on public transportation and decided to drive.
Still, those figures pale in comparison to horror stories like a $26 commute undertaken by one Brooklyn student who took a dollar van, a city bus, the subway, two Long Island Rail Road trains and a Suffolk County bus, clocking in at four hours for a trip just over thirty miles. We'll take a breakneck, 100-block bike commute over that any day.
