Thank yall...
Yupp, a little bit of luck and cold going on I would say though there were plenty of folks commuting home along that path. I will say this, Hoboken, at least the part I have been in, feels VERY safe so there is probably a pretty good amount of "good people" effect going on there. As opposed to the image below shot in a not so good part of Brooklyn. I brought my son to a basketball game on the border of Bedford-Stuy and Crown Heights. SO many cool things to shoot but I was not about to stop my car and get out with a camera. I pulled up in a parking area of sorts, with my window down and the camera set to Vr f2.8 and shot this quickly. It is NOT a particularly nice area of NY. I would love to have explored and shot around this LIRR station but I value my equipment and my life. Maybe I can hire big John to stand guard sometime.
RE cold shooting. 1. It is one of the BEST times to shoot because no one wanders in and out of the shot. (Kind of like the 0400 dawn shooting in summer.) 2. The camera handles the cold fine, BUT I generally get a low battery warning every ten minutes or so and have to take the battery out and put it in a pocket deep inside my many layers to warm back up. Then I am good for another ten minutes or so.