eSIM for New York

Where the signal goes

Every subway station has coverage and most of the tunnels between them now do too. The older IRT stretches in upper Manhattan are the remaining gaps.

Getting around

Subway, tap a contactless card at the turnstile. It runs 24 hours, unusually, but weekend track work reroutes lines without much warning.

Neighbourhoods

• Lower East Side

  Bars and small venues, and walkable from most of downtown.

• Astoria

  Queens, fifteen minutes out, and the food is the reason to go.

• Bed-Stuy

  Brooklyn brownstones, and a long way from Times Square in every sense.

What's on

• Thanksgiving Parade

  Fourth Thursday of November

  Central Park West to Herald Square

  Crowds ten deep, and networks struggle along the route.

• New Year in Times Square

  31 December

  Times Square

  You are penned in for hours with no exit. Consider not.