Get on the bus.(bus to Ikea in New Jersey)(On and Off the Avenue)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 18-MAR-02

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Twenty minutes after it leaves the Port Authority, the free weekend bus to IKEA in Elizabeth, New Jersey (New Jersey Turnpike, exit 13A; 908-289-4488; 800-BUS-IKEA), pulls up to the store and a load of slightly befuddled Manhattanites -- among them a couple with buzz cuts and khakis who resemble the people in Ikea's TV ads and a woman in a fur toque who looks as though she leaves the Upper East Side only for the Hamptons -- enter the shop's rotunda and glance around, in vain, for help. No...

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