New York Districts?

[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

I wouldn't even have considered trying to do it as a daily commute. Is there a problem with staying overnight? Unless there's something I don't know about lodging costs in Albany, that shouldn't be nearly as expensive as taking the train twice a day.

think about it

I stay in albany often for gymnastics and my dad is up there extremely often (hes the president of his union)

A standard 3 star hotel room is 120 dollars per night. One room fits 4 people

2 over nights plus 2 ways on the train

Thats $140 dollars per student plus meals.

You have a moderately sized team with 20 students and 2 mentors thats

$3,080

and thats without renting a U-Haul add $400 ish (for a 10 foot truck).

So for a single event a low budget team needs to drop $3,500 dollars just to go back and forth to a single event. To some teams that may not seem like too much but speaking for some nyc teams thats their budget.

I hear the talk about having it in albany yes geographically that makes sense

However if you look at density ny long island blows everywhere else out of the park. Also teams upsate have no issues with parents not driving (for the most part) Yes it sucks for those wierd out of area teams but the harder audience and the ones with bigger issues are the nyc teams.

Not to mention that NYC is a cool place to go to a competition.