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Extreme Commuter: From LI's North Shore to Midtown

Allan Press has endured hefty commutes to work for years, but his latest -- a whopping 4.5 hours a day -- is the most grueling.

"It's exhausting," said Press, 41, a supervisor for a Manhattan financial firm. "I've been doing it [commuting] for about 14 years, and it's slowly getting longer and longer to get to work the farther I move away."

Press used to weather commutes from Queens...

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