Getting around New York City with Hopstop

If for some reason you live in New York and haven't heard about Hopstop, it is one of the more useful websites for living in the city.

Simply enter your starting and ending address a la Google maps and Hopstop will pull up the best route on the Subway to get from Point A to Point B. You can specify whether you would like more transfers or more walking, and you can even calculate how much a taxi ride would cost for the same trip. Additionally, you can use Hopstop with your PDA or with SMS.

It isn't just New York that has Hopstop. Boston, Chicago, San Fran and DC also in the mix. There a couple other versions (Long Island and Jersey) in beta at the moment.

Hopstop is great, although it can't help you much if there is a monsoon in the city like there was this morning.