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Originally Posted by Bluman56
Forget HVR for the majority of NYC teams because that's both too far and requires lodging.
Sure I agree NYCFirst does magnificent work, but there are teams in NYC that are so critically underfunded that they need to ask the genie for more than 3 wishes, and this time around the genie (NYCFirst) might not be able to accommodate. Seems only time will tell at this point.
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Suffern is a lot closer than you may think, especially for teams from Uptown or the Bronx. There are two ways to get there, either by crossing the GWB or Tappen Zee, and each way it is only about 45 minutes of travel in each direction. Last year I brought my team down from New Rochelle to Long Island, an identical distance to Suffern, and we took the bus back and forth each day. Sure it was a little tiring, but it was fine. We skipped load in on Wednesday night, only brought our pit crew on Thursday, and bused the Friday/Saturday.
I expect that we will start seeing a bit of a split in the NYC area teams, where uptown/Bronx teams start favoring HVRA and downtown/Brooklyn/Queens/SI favoring Long Island. Realistically, we probably would need at least one more area event in either Suffolk or Brooklyn to make this area work best in a District model.