No use pouting over the homeless, smells in confined spaces or hoods selling swipes, those are conditions found all over the subway system. Truth, the 8 trains that run overnite on the E line have become de-facto homeless shelters, but thats a function of the cops not forcefully ejecting round-trippers and laid-out sleepers, and the city not having the resources to properly shelter the homeless and mentally ill. Once the rush hour kicks in; the am folks going to work tend to push the sleepers into sitting positions on the trains (no help for the smells), and as long as folks aren't taking pics of the egregious violators and posting it on twitter with hashtags like #NYCT, #MTA, #ELine, #BillDeblasio, #Homeless and such this will continue to be a daily problem. Service on the Eline is contingent on service down the Queens corridor, if the corridor has a sick customer, everyone runs late for work. This is not the fault of transit personnel, who for the most trying of circumstances do a fairly decent job, but when a screamer harasses the conductor because of a fire or police action that they have no control over somewhere ahead of their train, riders should tell the screamer to STFU. It doesn't help anyone to get to work already stressed. There are 2 terminals here, if there are delays on the E line use contingency and the directions on google maps app to take the J line to their destination, both lines take similar time to get to lower manhattan. If none of this is helpful to you, for $2.75 you get 13 miles of track to the heart of NYC and beyond, anything else, there's Uber or Lyft.