I’m traveling next week into NY. Need help with transportation ideas, mostly not wanting to pay a $75 Uber ride.
I land Wednesday night at 9:30 PM into LGA
Leaving the next day at 1:30 PM out of JFK
Initially thinking I can get a crew rate near LGA then in the morning head to JFK using the Uber shuttle. I haven’t done it yet; I do think I have to schlep it into the city to come back into Queens.
All ideas are welcome.
(Happy Thanksgiving to all)
Take the Q70 bus from LGA to Jackson Heights then the E train to Jamaica Station and transfer to the JFK AirTrain. Cheap, efficient, and avoids the city.
If you want to go into Manhattan for any reason in the morning, the best way to go from there to JFK airport is LIRR. You can take it from Grand Central or from Penn Station. It’s not as cheap as the subway, but it’s a lot more comfortable and faster.
Get off at Jamaica station and take the AirTrain into JFK airport.
Edit: replaced “the city” with “Manhattan” for better understanding.
@Meech
I know what you mean here, but you are using “the city” to refer to Manhattan. All of the 5 boroughs are part of New York City.
Zion said:
@Meech
I know what you mean here, but you are using “the city” to refer to Manhattan. All of the 5 boroughs are part of New York City.
Thanks, I’ve corrected the text.
Zion said:
@Meech
I know what you mean here, but you are using “the city” to refer to Manhattan. All of the 5 boroughs are part of New York City.
Thanks, I’ve corrected the text.
Good advice, nevertheless. I highly prefer to fly out of JFK (as opposed to LGA) because of the ease of getting there from Manhattan via public transportation. EWR (Newark) is also very easy to get to from Manhattan using public transportation.
Also, use the app Citymapper - it will let you know exactly how to get anywhere you want using public transportation once in NY. It was super helpful on my trip. I took the Q70 to Jackson Heights, then went from there using the app. On our way back, we flew out from JFK, but ended up taking an Uber because we didn’t want to risk being late.
@Kiran
I haven’t used that app, but I have always found that Google Maps gives me good public transportation directions as well.
Free bus from LGA to Jackson Heights Roosevelt Ave, 7 and E train there. I would get a hotel on either line, probably on the E between there and Jamaica since Jamaica is where you’re heading on day 2. Take the E to Jamaica and hop on the AirTrain to JFK. Very easy.
Uber shuttle from city to both airports.
Simple Google search brought the following options:
Take the Q70 Bus from JFK to LGA for just $2.75.
Hop on an NYC Airporter shuttle from JFK to LGA for $15.
Board the subway line E or F from JFK, switch to the 7 train, then take the M60-SBS bus to LGA.
@Davi
These aren’t quite right. The Q70 bus and the E train are part of the answer, but you need to use them together, not one or the other. There is no reason to transfer to the 7 train. Was that AI-generated nonsense?
@Davi
The E and the F do not go to JFK.
FreebieFinders3 said:
@Davi
The E and the F do not go to JFK.
The E train absolutely goes to JFK and has ever since the JFK AirTrain got extended to Jamaica. The F train does not, unless you want to walk half a mile on Sutphin Blvd.
@WilliamRodriguez
Tell us where the E train station is on the JFK airport grounds.
Zuri said:
@WilliamRodriguez
Tell us where the E train station is on the JFK airport grounds.
You are clearly just being difficult. No train proper goes to JFK’s terminals. But several trains - including the E - connect to the AirTrain which everyone describes as ‘going to JFK’.
Do you complain that when people say you get ‘on’ an airplane, they mean you’re getting ‘in’ an airplane?
@Jin
Not being difficult at all, just precise. You’ll have tourists riding the E out of Manhattan watching out for the airport station and getting lost.
Would you claim the 1 train ‘absolutely goes to Staten Island’ because it deposits you at a transfer point to a different transport mode which serves Staten Island? It’s the same distinction.
@Zuri
If you’d said ‘technically the E does not go to JFK but goes to the AirTrain which connects to all the terminals’ then I’d say sure fair enough, good advice for the tourists.
But saying ‘the E does not go to JFK’ and ending it there is more misleading than clarifying.
Edited to add: (Especially since more or less every New Yorker would say ‘I took the subway to the airport’ and everyone else would know what they meant).