About 2 miles from our house is a train line that has a train come every hour or so, starting at 5:20 in the am until about 12:30, which goes right into Penn Station, NYC. There are also alternating trains that go into Hoboken, NJ, just on the other side of the hudson, and then you can take a PATH underground subway train, or a ferry boat over to NYC.

Coming home from NYC, the last trains out are at 11:30pm. They should be later.

There's also a bus line that goes right into the city paralleling the train route, more or less.

Neither is cheap though. $17.50 for a round trip on the train. Bus is comparable.

Monthly pass is $246, so $12.30 per day if you go in 5 days/ week, assuming 4 weeks, plus whatever subway/cab fare if you don't walk in NYC.

OTOH, I can get to Newark Airport on mass transit for $29 round trip, after two transfers. It takes about 2 hrs. vs. me being dropped off via car 25 minutes away. It's nice to know it can be done, though.

All that is fine if you want to go into the city. There are about 4 train lines that go in, like spokes on a wheel, but no reasonable way at all to travel from anywhere else in NJ unless you go into the hub, NY, or Hoboken, to catch a wheel spoke back out. Even then, you can only get to the towns on the spokes.

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