There’s Only So Much Cell Phone Snake You Can Take

Even though there is much to occupy us with, New Yorkers spend an inordinate amount of time simply getting to work:

The Census Bureau says New York City now has the second-longest commute in the nation — 34.2 minutes — a slight increase over the past five years and only a little better than Baltimore.

The average commute for the rest of the country is 25.5 minutes — a 24-second drop since 2005.

“We all should hold a celebration,” Alan Pisarski, author of “Commuting in America,” said sarcastically. “We’re saving 0.4 minutes!”

But even those 24 seconds might look good to folks in Queens, Staten Island, the Bronx and Brooklyn who had longer commuting times than workers in any of the other 231 counties analyzed by the bureau.

The sorry statistics: Queens, 41.7 minutes, Staten Island, 41.3, the Bronx, 40.8 and Brooklyn, 39.7.

New York had the longest statewide commuting time — 30.4 minutes. Even the Los Angeles area, long notorious for its traffic horrors, came in 16th, at 28.4 minutes. New Jersey was third with 28.5 minutes.

(And when you get to the office you can keep playing Snake, though I have no idea why anyone would want to do that.)