Stanley had several transportation options to get around New York without a car, including walking, taking a taxi, or riding the subway. While in a taxi, Stanley asked his driver to slow down because he was going too fast. Most people use the subway, which requires a metro card each time and costs $2.25 per ride, with different colored trains going to different neighborhoods. Stanley followed a map so he didn't get lost on his travels around the city.

1. How Stanley got around town
New York has many choices of transportation you donʼt need to own car.
You can walk almost everywhere
Fun Fact: Red Hand means STOP! White Walk means GO!
Look both ways before you cross the street

2. If you have somewhere to go in a hurry you can hail a TAXI. You do this by waving your
hand on a safe part of the sidewalk corner and say “TAXI! TAXI!”
Stanleyʼs driver was going too FAST! He said, “slow down.”
Fun Fact: The taxicab gets its name from the 1891 invention of the taximeter, an
instrument used to measure the distance and time a car has traveled.
FUN FACT #2: The distance you travel = the cost of the ride

3. Most people take the train and ride underground in the subway. You have to use a
Metro Card each way you ride, it costs $2.25. Different color trains travel to different
neighborhoods in New York.
FUN FACT: Children under 44 inches
tall ride for FREE
Stanley followed a map so he didnʼt
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