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MPALMER
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Any advice on riding the Newark Subway during daylight hours? When I was last at Newark Penn Station several years ago I was kind of leery of the Subway so I didn't check it out...
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I've ridden the Newark City Subway only a few times, when I lived in NJ. I rode it just for the ride and a couple of times to conferences at NJ Institute of Technology. These were all daylight trips. It seemed all right to me.

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Worked in Newark a few months in 1995. Rode the subway on a Saturday, a few wierd looking people, but then this is next to New York. Don't see a problem with daytime. Don't know enough to say how far away it is safe to wander. I did not. Just rode out, took some pictures, rode back. Stopped off at least once to take a few pictures.
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Thanks for the responses.
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I rode it back in the PCC Days first thing in the morning and had the car to myself. It was a great ride.
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The NCS is exceptionally safe. The PCC days were the time to ride it; things have slowed down a bit since the inception of the Kinki-Sharyo LRVs.
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